I've seen some good suggestions in the first impressions thread. Thought I'd start a thread to keep them all in one place.
Mine so far:
Have a "camera modifier" key that puts the mouse into left-hold and right-hold camera modes. For instance, holding down CTRL (or whatever) acts just like holding down the left mouse button. ALT could act as right mouse button. Give the option to make these toggles (tap once to get in, tap again to get out) or hold modifiers (hold to retain mode).
The reason I say this is that constantly holding down a mouse button can get very tiresome. Also, the slight delay when the game waits for the mouse to enter "camera" mode eventually grates on the nerves.
Also, it would be REALLY nice to have smoother WASD camera control. Implementing Total Wars' system would be fantastic, where holding down shift makes the camera move even faster.
EDIT: To bring this even further, the best possible scenario is to give an FPS "fly" cam. Where you would have a toggle key to put mouse into "mouselook" mode (turns the viewpoint left/right/up/down) whereas WASD "pans" the camera with a shift modifier to make it pan faster (as it behaves right now, but without all the weird speed up and slow downs that current plagues it). This would give fantastic and precise control of the camera.
Finally, a way to quickly mount/dismount large groups of troops. Throwing them all into Strykers at the beginning of a scenario takes a very long time.
[ July 27, 2007, 03:05 PM: Message edited by: flyinj ]