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I think the point of having the player able to make ghost building is to not have to actually be there and build like you normally would. If the only benefit is that you only need one of that item in your inventory, you could just ask it from your logistics bot and construct it yourself.

I think ghost building range should be much bigger, in a way that it allows you to send out orders to build things in faraway places (20-30 tiles away).

I've had no problem with zooming out and placing a building ghost at the edge of my screen, far out of the build range.
Or do you mean something else, Such as placing things without your player on screen?

Ghosts. Hm. I think this is a good point, because they bring the game in a really good direction, bring speed and the need to think more forward. With my current experience I would say, they easily double the speed of the game, when used correctly.

The question is about how far, but if think that is a matter of balancing.