Sorry I havent read this before! Thank you ephemerald for your feedback. About the pool of water inside the base, I feel you're right and will come with some changes for it, thank you for pointing this detail. About the waste respawning, yeah. I like games as more realistic as they can in this kinda details, so this time we had to sacrifice realism for gameplay. If we had made a single player experience, wich would have been a good idea too, the waste would for sure not respawn! I usually prefer single player experiences because I can have control of this small things that makes the games more realistic.
About the airlock, the first times you go out it may give that impression but as soon as you upgrade your suit enough, you can stay outside quite a lot of time and go far to explore. So maybe this will happen at the start of the game and will happen less as long as you play. We have plans of adding new zones, new suit upgrades with more oxygen and places where you may be able to breath for a while. So the idea for future is that you can go out the base and not come back in quite a long time. Anyway, I will may try to make the door animation a bit faster at some points.
Thank you so much!