Mostly, the paces do not seem to be [i]too[/i] fast. Lord Rain's pace of dungeon construction is unusually fast, for he somehow manages to personally attend both the building of rooms, enchanting of weaponry and organising of a Construct all in the same post, but other than that I do not have much to complain about. If they so choose to dedicate some time at the start to creating new minions, that is completely within the rules.

For the record, at this stage, a small army and small Dungeon count as catching up. No need to super-pace beyond that.