Please add a timer of some sort to the gate map so we can tell when a gate change is coming.
The time doesn't necessarily need to be exact minutes and seconds but could be "arbitrary" units - just something so that we can estimate how long until a gate changes. It's an easy fix that I believe many players would greatly appreciate.
Yeah, I know it's the same per level it's just annoying because you don't always know WHEN the gate changed. So you know the maximum amount of time you have to wait but that doesn't help if you're trying to plan/estimate multiple tiers in a row - when there's 3 arenas for instance. Would skipping this one net you the other two or not? Currently this is practically impossible to do because you only know the maximum amount.
If the Spiral Order is advanced enough to have spacecraft you bet they'd be advanced enough to be able to time a simple rotating gate.
That would be convenient, but I kind of suspect they want it to be obscure (most of the game mechanics are). If it helps, the level change time always seems to be the same for a given gate at a given depth, so if you time it once, you can predict it (to an extent) on future trips. See this thread.