I know most/all of the servers have it, but they also had !id, so.. Under commander name, add a note as to what he is researching, EG: Commander: : ]App[ : Wolfie Researching: Plasma Cannon, 999s.
The comm GUI is going to get revised at some later date. This many people complaining about it can't go ignored... can they?
the HUD should be only for things that you need to know quickly without fiddling around with tab or menus or the map. Just make it a command... If you don't know how to use the command you don't need to concern yourself with whats being cooked up in the radar.
Most players have a screen resolution of 1680x1050 or 1920x1200. In my opinion there is enough space left for usefull informations. Additionally to the current research in would add the vehicle limit (just add /vehicle_limit to the number of vehicles) and strike this number with a red line if vf is restricted.
Most? http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey Does this look like most? (~30%) And to be fair, as emp is quite fps hogging some people can't play it at max res.