Rounds time and number of rounds 

I wanna talk round time, number of rounds and new player experience.
I am a new player. I created two accounts and played the tutorial both times.
Some things I would like to note before I go into the rounds and time conversation are:

- Completing the tutorial should award a bit more credits in the end (basically sending you off to do 1-2 more things after you are done)
- When someone completes the tutorial he can only quit and wait for credits to increase before he does anything else (pretty much).
- I realise that an old player has more things to handle but newer players should be able to handle less things faster to keep them engaged.

The last point brings me to the core of the post. Rounds and round times.
The tutorial requires about (calculated it a bit but not sure it's correct due to some distances taking longer to cross with the transport) 20 rounds to complete. (Given that everything is done on the spot and no blank rounds are present)
This means that a new player must spend 200 minutes (3 hours and 20 minutes) to actually figure out what the game plays like. And that is only the basics. I know I wanted to see much more when the tutorial was complete.
Now, I am a freak for games like this and was also watching Stranger Things while waiting for rounds to pass so the process went by faster than I expected. But that won't be the case for everyone.
Many people will quit the game the moment they see the first 10 minute counter.
(2 of my friends already did. I am not making this up.)

Also, when you are done with the tutorial the things you can do are:
- Wait to gather enough resources (will take a whole night to make a million or so)
- Start upgrading stuff (in the count of 5+ hours each this is insanely repeling)
- Create a second account, complete the tutorial, go to step 1, loop indefinitely :P

Based on that I think that round times should be shortened down to 5 or less minutes. Given I read the post about the time it takes for everything to upgrade every time the round ends I think that 5 minutes is good enough.
Also, the tutorial should expand on some stuff while people are waiting for 4 rounds to pass so that the cargo transporter sells some water to another city.
I mean, they are waiting 10 minutes. Give them something to read that will keep them in the game. Or include videos that explain stuff like that.

Lastly, I think that many upgrades, constructions and other stuff in the game should have their round counts shortened. First thing to do took over 4 hours of waiting. And that's a building upgrade. I can't really call this engaging.
I would love to see more levels of upgrades and less time between. Starting with 2 rounds each and going up to days of waiting.
Things should flow much faster when you are new. This maintains the balance of things to do and time it takes for them to complete. A new guy has less to do but they are done faster. An old guy has more to do but they require more time.

I hope my english wasn't terrible and I made my point. Always open for conversation. I am waiting 20 more rounds for that first upgrade either way...

Would it be possible to provide a calculation or an ETA as to when a unit reaches a city to sell? Ideally I'd like to have a constant steady stream of income versus the current intervals.

Perhaps we could get an indicator on how many turns it will take for a Lvl 1 Freighter to travel from Point A to B. So for example, Moscow to Mars_1. I recall in the Alpha I was constantly checking to see where my supply routes were at when traveling intersystem, and never really knew how long it'd take for the ship to arrive.

Side question, the speed of a group depends on the slowest unit in the group correct?