I made two threads similar to this I believe as well. I want to cast but for some reason the equipment is not working. I had a game against a relatively new player, he just did not stand a chance, I got spawned in a stupid good position(I recall it being as asteroid, moon next to each other and then in order it lead to another moon -> moon -> Enemy planet. The game minidumped but it was about to be a slaughter because of the outrageous amount of corvettes I had and how simple it was to attack an enemy planet from my position.

For the love of God go play fullscreen...

This. I cannot get x-split to work when the game is in fullscreen for some reason.

Livestream's Procaster is the only widely used casting tool that I know of that works in fullscreen, and that's so riddled with bugs it may as well be useless. Xsplit doesn't support fullscreen. This is a huge deal for us casters and streamers. I rarely, -rarely- stream a game fullscreen unless I have absolutely no other option.

I've tried playing with arrow keys before, and that's a lot less fun. Considering I'd be swapping players a LOT more than I would in SP, arrow keys are very... useless. It's just not conducive to streaming or casting.

When you slide the mouse to the side of the screen, it does not drag your screen in that direction. The camera does not move when your mouse hits the side of the screen, it simply goes off to the desktop/background. Since there's no minimap, and zooming in and out constantly doesn't make for a pretty user experience, it's actually incredibly important for playing in windowed.

I understand this, but you can move the screen by also holding the mousewheel in and moving the mouse...it is the same effect...

I don't understand what you are getting at....

For one, windowed mode does support mouse scrolling...if you hold your mouse at the edge of the screen, it will indeed scroll that direction....I play in window mode probably 90% of the time, and I've never had a problem doing this...

On the assumption that for whatever reason you find this method unacceptable, I am positing another choice: holding down the scroll wheel and moving your mouse to pan and move your view around...it does the same exact thing as mouse scrolling...

Woah dude, I never once said I was against this...just trying to be helpful and give you some alternatives that currently do work and won't require the game to be changed...

As someone who's be here some time, I can tell you that the devs don't always implement changes no matter how good or obvious they are...sometimes you have to find a work around instead of hoping the devs will change the game...

You can switch to any player view screen during the replay. So you can see each specific person's allies, research, build queues, etc.

You may consider PMing a dev (probably Yarlen) about this issue...I think the key is making the argument that these changes would facilitate casting, which would bring more publicity to Rebellion...

What exactly do you mean by this?  You can "see" everything on the map at all times, and I do believe you also can see all chat...however, you have to switch between players to see things like research, construction ques, etc....

I'm not aware of anything that is "See only team A" or "See only team B"...either something can always be seen or you can only see it when you are viewing through a certain player...

So yes, I think you are going to have to memorize who's on each team...

On the bright side, ships are usually grouped together in the empire tree and when zoomed out based on whether they are friend or enemy..

This actually can be done via the game options...under "User Interface", the very first option "Use Team Colors" makes all allies green and all enemies red...

Well since it is set in the options menu, I would assume so...it would probably take the color perspective of whoever you are currently "playing" as....if you are following Player 1 who is on team A, then all team A will be green....but if you switch to player 7 who is on team B, then team A would become red and team B would be green...

Might actually end up being more confusing than just going with the original colors unless you don't plan on switching players....

it really is quite unfortunate how little support there is compared to sc2.... course when sins first came out, thats fine, they can get away with it, but for rebellion... youda really woulda thunk they would have put in this stuff...  *sigh*

at least sins HAS a replay function. i guess.