I would rather see everything, including the mouse buttons, configurable. I don't use the mouse to pan, it just feels weird to me. However, my keyboard is really non-standard (Kinesis Contour) and it has a 7" gap between the right and left sides of the keyboard, and the horizontal cursors are on the left and vertical on the right :) i would most likely use WASD to scroll, and remap the W commands to Backspace. Yeah, weird and non-standard.
scritchy__
i7 5930k, 16GB, R9-290X 4GB, Win 8.1
My first impressions: It runs ok, but feels a bit clunky (to be expected with the age of my machine). There needs to be more resolutions defined (like 1920x1200). Please allow us to remap keys (like panning). It sucks to have to work instead of playing more.
I had issues up until yesterday, when it worked. Brad, the concept art is doing nothing to dampen my excitement for the game, in fact the wait is more painful than before. It is like every day is the day before Christmas while waiting for new information.
As far as I'm concerned, length of the average game does not really matter as long as we are able to save the game, both single-player and multiplayer. Sometimes real life happens at the most annoying times. I agree that transport vehicles (think C-17 or CH-47 in modern day) would help with the moving across the map.