Nearest Idle / awaiting marine

Rebel

If players are requesting orders as like NS1, have a idle player icon in the commander hud that they can click on but instead of moving screen focus it just selects the closest idle player to where the commander is currently looking / working, allowing most efficient use of commander time / preventing soldiers running miles when someone else is closer. (then selecting the NEXT idle until etc until all units have been given orders)

Align

Yeah, I hate how it insists on moving my view when I want to place orders where I was looking, not where they are. Marines requesting orders popping up in view is probably going to happen before release anyway (as it was in NS1) but wouldn't mind seeing it sooner so commanders and players can work together more easily.

Harimau

Yeah, it should be like other RTS games with heroes, you click the portrait on the side once, you select the unit only; but if you click it <b>again</b> (or double-click) it will centre your view on the unit.

Shilorius

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^ This is exactly what I think.

l3lessed

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+1

I think the team could take a lot of lessons from most modern RTS games when it comes to the RTS portion of NS2. As I am a huge RTS fan myself dating back to the original WC, C&C's, AOE's and so on, but I have always found the RTS portion of NS very blocky, unwieldy, and just plain harder to use than it should be the majority of the time.

spellman23

+1