Also, things I would like (but are unrealistic because they'd need a lot more work) would be a mode where your party follows the main character and attacks automatically, so you don't have to worry about him.
Hello+welcome, Charles <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
I'm not sure if I understood you correctly - but you can assign different scripting per char if you use the right click on the portrait => agressive, defensive, normal. So those party members in aggr. mode would attack automatically everyone on sight. But caution, this mode can be dangerous if these chars run into stronger enemies.
Or did I misunderstand you?
Kiya
Camera centered on char => just my personal taste, I know this from Sacred where I couldn't scroll to snoop around and look if I had overseen something by using ALT (TAB in Sacred's case). I prefer the scrolling - and if I have lost my char, I simply click on the portrait, then I'm back again. If you mean having alternatives: scrolling+centering via key control => then I agree.
Selecting party/single char via key control => IIRC this was mentioned as a feature for the full version. The key control in the BD demo says:
[color:"orange"]TAB for party
F1 for member 1
F2 for member 2[/color] => is this what you mean?