A lot of these suggestions are already coming
The remember game search options could be done with a simple greasemonky script probably (thus freeing up Lack's coding time) so you might try to find someone who can code the monkey (pop into the Plugins board and ask there:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=59)
Iliad, how many times are you going to ask for that speed game fremium thing
The economics of it just dont work out - if everyone on the site had access to speed games, the server would come to a standstill.
Think it out like this: A speed game takes on average, what, an hour to two to play. A regular game takes closer to a week to two (from
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27965). So, essentially you could complete a weeks worth of games in about 6 hours (assuming you dont play more than 1 speed game at a time and you play more than one normal game at a time) drastically increasing the games player and thus pages served (because there is lots of extra refreshing in a speed game as well) and thus server load.
In other words, if all freemies got access to speed games, the traffic to the site could, in theory, increase a hundred million quadrillion (I worked it out with a calculator) times with no extra money to offset server costs - in
other words it would REALLY suck for everyone...including freemies who would be trying to play a speed game with a server that cant keep up.
(disclaimer, I really know nothing about actual stats, server load, costs or income...this is all pulled from available stats and common sense, so I could be completely wrong.)
Or you could pay $20 a year and play as many as you want
