Airtight insulation and home expansion

[Olleus]

Their effects should extend to any housing immediately below/above them, rather than just to the side.

Firstly, this would make them stronger and so potentially more useful. The housing expansion is already ok if there are 4-6 homes around it. But air tight insulation is borderline useless as it can only have a max of 4 adjacent homes giving a pathetic total of 12 oxygen saved - that's barely even a rounding error. Allowing the bonus to extend to houses which touch it from above a below would double the maximum possible effect and so make them strong enough to be worth using (although they could possibly use another boost anyway).

Secondly, it would make designing blocks of houses more fun. So much of the game revolves around building vertically; it would just make sense for air tight insulation and home expansion to play into this.

[RyLzEn]

You could have just said that you want to build skyscrapers.
but why do you need expanders? just add more houses on top.

[Olleus]

Originally posted by RyLzEn:

You could have just said that you want to build skyscrapers.
but why do you need expanders? just add more houses on top.

Because something that boring is exactly what I don't want? Working with adjacency bonuses across multiple layers is simply more interesting than just plonking down more layers blindly. Always weird when someone confuses a suggestion to make a game more complex and involved as a request for "moar powr plz".