Simple Quality-of-Life suggestions

Many discussions of features and wish lists for the game get grandiose and blue-sky. But there are a few improvements that seem likely to be minor amounts of coding work but would really reduce small annoyances during play. I'll start off with two items I've run into that I've also seen others on the forums mention:

Probably the #1 item is remembering the range circles, etc. settings in the combat window. I'm not asking for persistence in the save game, or even in the registry or something. Just make me only have to hit F5-F6-F7-F9 once per play session.

#2 is tweaking the combat zoom handling. Specifically, split the max combat zoom from the starting one in the settings file, so we can start at a good zoom level for small battles but zoom out for big ones. Most of all, provide a way to scale the zoom speed so it doesn't take so long to get from a reasonable zoom in to a reasonable zoom out...