Im not sure it would help with time sense ...
Cant hurt it either tho.
What i mean that things will still be happening coveniently "when player arives" ... therefore you will not know for how long is it burning, but still goblins will be celebrating sucessfull raid on inn, while flaming fist will still days later trying to break the doors at that inn. :-/
You just remove single case of observation out of many ... but the problem it caused remain the same. :-/
To solve this Larian would need to make a REALLY bold move ... ald let some small (or just parts) quests happened offscreen.
Like:
When you go to the swamp first ... you will see Ethel arguing with those brothers.
When you go risen road first ... you will see those Zhentarims fighting gnolls.
When you go to waukeens reast first ... you will see flaming fist breaking the doors to get in.
Of course no matter wich way you choose, the others becoma unaviable and you will only find concequences ... brothers bead, zhentarims eaten, flaming fist out (except the mourning one) and both people from inn burned.
Personaly i would love it ... but many people would not.
