First of all much thanks to everyone that has helped me with my project. The frame went up very well, I'll have pictures later, but for my immediate concern.
For my 2nd floor I've chosen 3/4" T&G pine (1st floor ceiling), then a layer of 1/2" "Homasote 440", and finally, a layer of 3/4" fir plywood for a subfloor. I'm screwing down the plywood with 4" screws into the timbers below. For equal spacing, my floor joist are 32" O.C. My concern is, that I don't have enough fasteners close enough together and the floor may feel a little spongy between joists. 32" is quite a gap between screws, typically it would be 16" O.C. in conventional framing.
My question...... can I screw the top layer of sub-floor to the pine boards below, carefully with the correct length screw. Obviously I'm proposing screwing between the floor joists. The correct length screw would be 1-3/4" or 1-5/8" slightly countersunk. I'm worried that as the house ages and such, the boards may split where I've screwed to them, even though the screws wouldn't be poking through. What do you all think???