This is where HLDJ comes handy for once, instead of just being derp. "You must construct additional pylons!" hasn't failed me yet.
This is where I always thought it would be useful to have a refinary request and rax request etc in the voice command menu to replace some of the useless ones.
Yeah, I would really like something like this, which then brought up an indicator for the commander. In the meantime, I favour making popular jargon and words come up in bold, such as barracks/rax, refinery/ref, etc.
You know what I really fucking hate? Coms that don't look at my "REF" spamming for at least 10s, but then bitch at me for asking for a REF in a hot zone. That fucking ref would've been up before the enemy got there if the goddamn com was doing his fucking job.
lolz this has happend to me a few time... its like "Pay the fuck attention and this shit would have been up and I woulda ambushed there ass instead of trying to defend this shit."
To be fair, if your ref was only going to be placed ten seconds before enemies would have swarmed your position, it would have been better for the comm not to drop it. But yeah, I get the point of your post, and I hate it when that happens as well.