Recent thread on this topic Dan said that they’re working on giving more engrave options that let you get speed over quality. My guess is that they’ll give a lower lpi PG setting. You can do it yourself manually by choosing 225 lpi which will nearly cut the time in half. Other than that, I doubt that we’re going to see it go much faster. (They may figure out some stuff on acceleration that will help long and narrow engraves maybe.)
One trick I’ve used on other lasers is that when you lower the LPI you also soften the focus so the beam is thicker. This fills in the raster lines that you might get from the lower resolution. I don’t know if you could fake out the forge to do this by setting an incorrect thickness.
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Understand what you are intending. Might be safer to vary the focus setting instead of the material thickness setting. Material thickness affects the accuracy of design placement in the preview image. Using the focus setting is a better option.
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Since the answer to this is “Yes, if you’d prefer to use manual settings”, I’m going to move this to Beyond the Manual where people can share settings that they’ve used (but which we can’t vouch for).
As noted, though, we’ve been working on some faster settings as a different option.
One other thing: in general, scores and cuts are much, much faster than engraves, and engraves are very sensitive to size. Making an engrave a little smaller can shorten the engrave time dramatically.