Your question doesn't make sense. The Governor's Villa does not fit in a 2x3 space, not does it require FP to level it up. Thus you don't have the choice of choosing either the Governor's Villa OR a level 10 Statue of Zeus.
From scratch, building a Statue of Zeus to level 10 requires weeks of effort. First you have to obtain all the blue prints. Then the resources to build it, then all the FP to level it up to L10.
Meanwhile, the Governor's Villa sits in your inventory unused for months?
Yeah, great advice to give new players.
New players may be well advised to be wary of the "advice" being given in the forum, and instead review the contents of the top players' cities, and the troop formations of those racing ahead in the PvP tower contests and GbG.
*sigh*
Size is irrelevant. The ONLY stats to look at are
production per tile, aka: production efficiency.
While it takes *some* time, Zeus is the single most efficient atk booster in the game.
Besides, how long did the GV take to 'acquire'? 21-22 days of work to play through the entire event? (...or else pay $$$ to speed through with dias)
Across that same time, it's just as likely to have a Lv4-5 Zeus at minimum if you're in a decent guild. (...and likely higher too, since it takes far fewer fps to level up than say, Castel.
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Also consider that early game, say EMA/HMA, Gov's Villa is giving only 18-19% atk, which equals only .60% - .63% atk/tile, vs. a Lv4-5 Zeus, giving 12-15% atk, which equals 2% atk/tile - 2.5% atk/tile.
And honestly, a Lv4 Zeus takes a total of 350 fps, or without ANY help, 14.5 days, while Lv5 is 470 fps or 19.5 days w/0 help.
So in less time than completing the entire event, it is easily possible to build a much better attack booster.
And as spicy as Gov's Villa is, the various Cultural Settlement buildings blow it out of the water.
So really, when looking at 'how good' in general buildings are, you're safe to generally assume: GB's >> Cultural Settlement > "good" Event Buildings > 'Premium' buildings >>>>>> 'normal' buildings.