Why increasing Gen speeds is a bad idea

So i was hit with a random Brain wave the other day and figured i'd write it down. As of right now a generator is completed after 80 "charges" have been put in to it by a survivor its important to know this before discussing gen speeds so...

Here have some gen stats:

• One survivor working on one gen with no toolboxes is 1 charge per second.
• Each survivor working on the same generator gets diminishing returns on there charge input first survivor is 1 charge per sec (CPS), the 2nd survivor will be 0.9 (so 1.9 CPS total), the 3rd 0.8 (2.7 total CPS) and the forth 0.7 for a total of 3.4 cps
• What means in terms of times it this 1 person = 80 seconds, 2 people 44.44 secs, 3 people 33.33 secs and finally 4 people is 28.57 secs.
• Toolboxes also adds to the amount of charges you input per second
• Common toolboxes add 0.1 CPS, Uncommon is 0.15 CPS, Rare is 0.2 CPS and Very rare is 0.25 CPS added
• Theres also two addons for toolboxes that add additional CPS, them being the Clean rag for another 0.1 CPS and Socket Swivels for 0.15 CPS
• Toolboxes have a total amount too Charges they can out put, depending on what toolbox it is

These are important things to know about generators before discussing gen speeds and so you have a full information before going further.

Now as for why Increasing Gen speeds would actually be a net loss rather then a net gain for both survivors and killers, as of current we can label both the least amount of time for a gen to be done and the slowest it can be done (note that i will be not taking into account perks here nor great skill checks), the slowest as you know with the killer interrupting the progress is 80 seconds as its 1 person with no toolbox as stated before, the fastest a gen can be done is with 4 survivors with 4 Engineer toolboxes with clean rag and socket swivel add-ons totalling up to 5.4 CPS means at your fastest you can complete a gen in 14.81 seconds.

Whilst that is INSANELY fast in our worst case scenario it actually gets worse, as if you are able to get all 4 people onto a gen the amount of charges they consume on their toolboxes if effectively split meaning that to get a 14.81 sec gen the team as a whole would of only consumed a 1/4th of there toolboxes so they can effectively do 4 generators in 74.07 secs, now this is very VERY unlikely as in a majority to cases you cant even get 4 people on to a gen usually the max is 3 or even two, though even if they were to split up and do a gen each thats 1 CPS per survivor plus a extra 0.5 for the tool boxes, this increases the overall CPS to 6 CPS bringing the time it take to bring up the overall time to do 4 gens with one person each on it with a engineers tool box is drum roll please ... 53.33 seconds!

Of course im not saying even this is likely these ARE extremes and im only saying them so your aware of them, as you can tell i haven't even taken into account the killer at all here, but even so lets say our friendly Stabby boi finds a someone and starts the chase, leaving 3 other to do there job and fix gens, same toolboxes as before, and lets start the chase, whilst there are know exact numbers that im aware of assuming both party's are equal in skill the chase can take anywhere between 30 seconds to about a minute depending on the map, the killer being played and pallets the are free, even so with one person taken down, thats 3 gens done or near done for 1 down not the best.

But lets be fair, this is an extreme and we want an average here, so lets say 1 person isnt working on a gen, theres 3 people working on gens, but they are working on separate ones, and lets say 2 of them has tool boxes, uncommon ones, not too fancy, assuming the person getting chased was working on a gen with another survivor for about 20 secs before he got found, thats 1.9 CPS for the first 20 secs meaning thats 38 charges done, the chase starts and the killer wisks away chasing down his prey, his friend hides for a bit, so the killer doesnt notice him then just jumps onto the gen again, back to our chase! we'll call our survivor tim, tims actually decent at survivor and he takes a hit early due him not running SB and the killer got him by surprise lets say 10 seconds into the chase, he then mind games a pallet for a while, 15 seconds pass BL kicks in and tim is forced to drop the pallet and move on, killer breaks it follows and after a small jungle gym being loops for while tim mindgames himself and walks right into the killer at the loop, all this takes up about another 40 seconds pretty normal stuff totalling 50 seconds chase and only 70 seconds into the game, 1 down... and 3 generators done, ya see in those 70 seconds his friend could would of finished the gen they were on in 42 seconds and as for our other 2 friends they were on gens too with those uncommon tool boxes, we mentioned earlier and and only with a basic uncommon toolbox no addons they only need 69.56 seconds to fully complete a gen.

So lets do the thing weve all been waiting for... INCREASE THE GENS! up until now i've basically screamed that gens are being done to fast despite the title stating thats not what i want to do, but its here we come into our first problem.... how much do we increase them by? ya see it has to be significant amount to even make a dent in this, atm its 80 charges per gen, you increase that by 10 charges adding 50 charges added to the game, since alot of the gens are done at the same time and multiple work on the same gen this is only gonna add what 25 secs on average to a game? thats not even a chase, sooo lets go 20 chrages per gen, adds 100 charges to the game, do the same again and half it due to overlapping gens and such, 50 seconds HURRAY the killer gets 1 extra chase.... not much, you know what? lets go big 40 charges added to gens, and extra 200 charges total. 120 second generators! and 100 seconds for the killer to chase and with that much time he can even do TWO WHOLE CHASES MORE WOOHOO... its just not really all that significant enough, you'd need to add alot of time to be to give killers the time they need and assuming everyone is on the same skill level here this just isnt gonna be enough, and its not gonna be long till survivors just start bringing out those engineer's toolboxes with clean rag and socket swivels coz they'll have to else their just gonna be bored, the killer may now have more time but now the survivors have to wait and watch as a a stupidly slow bar moves across their screen.

At the end of the day gen times would have to be increased to the point were its no longer fun to play as survivor to viable for killers and overall its fair more likely to send players away rather and slowly deteriorate the player base, in reality slowing down gens will just make survivor so boring to play as people just wont play, which kills it for everyone.

BUT theres so much evidence to say gens are too fast gens the games are going too quickly and thats true, but thats not actually the fault of gens or survivors and we know this because even know you can very much slow games down to a crawl as killer, you can completely stop all progress on gens and wipe out the team? and how people do this, is with pressure.

Pressure is basically a secret value of DbD we all know that the amount of pressure a killer can put down is key to their success its why nurse is insane its why billys map pressure is beloved by his mains but when ever we look to start balancing the game we always seem to ignore this factor.

What im getting at is in order to fix the speed of the games gen times isnt the answer, we need to look and suggest ways of allowing the killer to have more of a presence on the map and being able to better deny progress.

TL;DR
Overall im not sure in what form the changes to slow down game times should take, they should happen but increasing gen times is not the answer, despite how obvious it may seem.