Hi! I remember your games from `21 and `22! Oh, man it really warms my heart to read comments like this, thank you so much :)
Thanks for the feedback as well I appreciate that very much. I'd love to add more synergies and more "wacky" cards and effects but at some point I settled on "a little boring but fairly balanced" which was a safer choice but definitely less cooler :D
As for the benefits to place buildings. I planned to, then I cut the scope, then at the very end I added small bonuses when similar (in function) buildings are placed near each other and then added a "secret" bonuses when a column is full and then when row is full (just for fun, knowing, that nobody will do that :D). But that's really not that much and a lot of people are pointing that out and all of them are right :)