not empty acres but what is the reasoning behind not being able to buy buildings instead of spending turns building.

Almost every strategy game allows you to spend currency to increase building time why not Earth?

That does seem to violate the entire purpose of construction sites though, no? heh

i thought that's what CS did...
spend money, every 4 CS your building speed increases!
:D

no, you would have to make them like 10x or so more expensive then building them but late in the set it opens up a couple new avenues on how to run your country.

or if a netting tag gets jumped in war etc