Normality Gas Pumps

[DuckBoy]

Has anyone found an effective way to use normality gas pumps? I find the gas completely dissipates within a turn of firing it. And as a true kin, I can't dominate my friends into firing it for me (Until I find a ganglionic :D). Further, firing it point blank at twinning lampreys doesn't appear to create any gas at all. It's like if they block or dodge it somehow doesn't create any gas, and shooting point blank doesn't at all increase density in a tile.

I'm considering dropping one as a turret, but that's a damn expensive turret with a 5 bit in it. Might as well just drop a freeze ray turret and ignore the lamprey ice cubes completely at that point. Dropping desert rifle turrets and spraying the gas myself has worked, but it feels extremely inefficient.

It seems like making normality gas last longer might be a nerf to espers, but won't somebody please think of the tinkers? Maybe it would be better as a box I could drop to leave gas in a small 3x3 area, or a massive cage trap I could build over 30+ turns. Or is that too much like a normality gas grenade bomb?