[Need zoom and UI scaling]

The UI and fonts will scale on different resolutions once they are finalised.

There has been little point so far dedicating time to making the placeholders work at different resolutions as they will be replaced at some point.

You are out of luck on the zooming ground combat though.

The engine doesn't really support zooming, possibly due to the fact that all of the graphics are made up of spritesheets with a pre determined resolution that would not be able to alter to suit different zoom levels.

The engine itself may be able to handle it but all you would get would be closer views of blurry images, like zooming in on a paint image rather than zooming in on a google map.

So what exactly is the "target" resolution the devs are designing this game for? Like what resolution do they recommend players play at to get the game looking "the way the devs imagined it". Anything from 21.5-inch or up is almost always 1920*1080 or higher. I just checked the steam hardware survey from may 2012 and sure enough that is the most popular resolution.

Either way its good to hear that at least the UI will be scaling

[1280*768 and 800 default to 1280*960]

I can get 1280*720 and 1280*960 working fine, but the two resolutions in the middle both default to 1280*960. The more important one ofcourse is 1280*800 which is a 16:10 ratio and the next logical step down from 1920*1200 or 1680*1050 for those that are trying to make the game look bigger (or less intensive on lower end hardware I guess).

[Need zoom and UI scaling]

At 1920*1200 everything in the game is tiny (cant imagine playing this on a 30" screen). The UI needs to scale to maintain readable proportions with higher resolutions and the game world itself could use a zoom feature so your soldiers and world elements arent so ridiculously small.

[Pre-order Confirmation emails, transaction IDs, and a lack thereof.]

Would help if the pre-order confirmation screen told you about the email subject youre searching for in your old mail, so folks wouldnt have to go digging for thankfully useful threads like this one