Actually, what your talking about here is an expanded hotkey messaging system. A full on system like you see in most flight sims where you order around your AI buddies. Adding something like this so you can rapidly communicate while in the middle of a big dogfight may not be a bad idea.
First, like we have now a way to lock onto somebody to send messages to them, but instead of automatically sending a command, you use a second key and send these.
Break left
Break right
Climb
Dive
Check your Six!
CLEAR MY SIX!
All of which you either ignore, or you can hit a "reply to sender" key and send back CC/Click click/(double burst of static) to say "yes".
Those sort of things.
Hans.
[ 11-17-2001: Message edited by: LtHans ]