(08-30-2018, 04:06 AM)Mr. Mortius Wrote: I'm not sure air should even be a construction material. It's harvested by refineries for citizens to use, and the amount used in construction doesn't allow citizens to live in the buildings.
Could add a new construction component, "Life Support Component" or something. And have those be used for life support construction.
It costing a unit of Air to manufacture a component like that isn't that farfetcted, think of it as testing or something. And you have to make sure a player is harvesting air before he makes a harsh environment colony anyway, using air in some way for construction helps with that.
If most of the materials used in harsh environment construction was changed to these components, construction time would be a lot lower.