can we please reduce the amount of time it takes for some of these? 8 hours of gold takes 1 day (sometimes 25 hours) to complete and just seems a bit ridiculous.

i suggest these missions be 1.5x to 2x the gold reward in terms of duration. so 8h of gold would be between 12-16 hours, either random or not random.

it may only tie up 3-4 crusaders at a time but 24-25 hours is a long time to tie those up, and in my experience of letting missions expire, the mission just comes right back almost immediately.....leaving you in a never-ending roundabout with the decision to do this mission or not, possibly blocking other good missions from popping up.