Average game length - options for change

[Wupti]

Furthermore the power of strength pack was popularized making it very easy to go start tank -> lategametank without being punishable by the burst tanks of the midgame (thunder and heavy) [...] The result is that very early on people have huge amounts of hp with little damage, creating passive play.

+1 The fact steel hull>gold hull is just ridicilous since it's harder to save for a gold hull early game.

I think that it is pretty obvious that currently the best way to play is skipping 3k-6k tanks and we need to change that somehow.

Currently my suggestions would be to:
-Nerf strength pack and negator pack heavily.
-Redesign the Storm Tank to be less of a hard counter to Airship.
-Redesign the distributer W.
-Change the Airship speed passive back (and the drones).
-Buff the Alchimist.
-Make netlauncher goldcost scale with game (or just more expensive overall).

Air tanks in generel are in my opinion unfavoured, they have little crowd control and are easy targets.

A Storm Tank change is also needed for this, because, as far as I know, it is suicide to get Air Ship in side lanes when the opponent is still on his starting tank. He'll just change to Storm and destroy you with a cheaper tank.

I'm not sure storm needs a nerf. Airship can battle storm in lane, but needs health points against the hard nuking potential a storm tank provides. Maybe the gold cost of storm should change to 5000. since a counter tank should be more exspensive than the tank it counters
heavy < goblin
goblin < earth
earth < sky
sky < demon

Games without leaver

# of games	average time in s	version
2202	3664	872c
227	3659	873
1839	3899	873c
2570	3974	874
134	3785	875b
249	4016	875c
1	2140	876b
1227	3799	876c
9	4014	877b
185	3674	877c
478	3527	877e
519	4060	878b
32	4077	879b
358	4332	879c
386	4257	879d
41	4706	880c

47 is high but still I'm quite convinced it should be higher, is this including qualify games or excludedly ranked?