How do you deselect a commander if you can't point away? For example, if I'm parked on a planet and I select a commander in front of me, I can't figure out a way to deselect him w/o having to select someone else. I would think selecting him on the contacts list would do something, but no. All I've been able to figure out is to turn my sensors off and on again.
Very related to that, if you have a commander selected and open comms, it defaults to a private chat message - is there a way to quickly switch to local? I realize deselecting the commander will to this, and there is a / override, but is there some option on the comms panel?
Is there a way to find out a commander's name w/o scanning him? If I'm parked on a planet and surrounded my commanders, all I've been able to do is drive around in the SRV and scan commanders. But I often get friends requests from commanders and I can't figure out how they could have scanned me (like if they are on the ground and I'm 2km up coming in for a landing).
Today I was parked on a planet and performed repairs for the first time (on DW). I shut off almost everything and then powered up the AFMU and started making repairs. When I repaired life support, I went on emergency oxygen for a few seconds, but I quickly restored power. I then finished repairing the other modules. Then I looked out the cockpit window, and a few seconds later it started icing up. Why? I didn't launch a heat sink or shut off the power plant, so why did I get so cold? I warmed back up after quickly turning back on shields, sensors, thrusters, PD, and etc. I think that may have been a glitch - or is it normal?
Thanks.