Just to note on pop windows you never had to sit through the whole 30 min window. If X mob was set to spawn @ 2:45:00. The only time you had to watch the clock was @ 3:15:00 and so on. So you only had to be at the pc for a total of 10 secs, but of course you would want to be there 3 mins ahead of time.

I just usually got my house work done in between windows or other things. I still think windows should be gone, however I think the pop conditions we had in 1.0 were fine just need a bit of tweaking.