In some way, it will become possible for faster game with Rebellion, thank to Goafan77 plea for custom map transfer with online play...
There is custom map around who give you 3 or more planet for start... this along a quick start and research/income/etc rate that you can already configure, will make online game more fast...
Pretty sure that if Rebelion have these custom map transfer, it will not be long before a bunch of special map for online play pop-up on these forum...
Well, 10 hours for one game is very long, same in the actual state of the game... seem like two turtle player ( defense ) on a huge multistar random map... i think that actual online game range from 0.5 to 2 hours...