maybe already suggested because it is pretty obvious...

you press u and have a list of targets. now you want to hail someone specific. guess what, x or the other target selection keys can't find him because out of range... and you don't want to stay because of pirates... again a chance missed being nice to someone...

so please make the list klickable selecting the one no matter how far away he/she is...

i mean shooting won't help because still to far away... and searching so getting the direction does not need to happen at these distances so no harm would be done...

ehhh, no.

Actually I wouldn't mind this..it would be a nice little add on.

The simple solution might be to move functions like Hail, Message, Give Money etc from the Character Info screen to the Sector List, and allow any ship in sector to be selected on that screen at all times. If the ship is in radar range, it also gets targeted. If not, the ship is assigned as the "target" for actions like /msg %target%, /charinfo etc, but would not otherwise be targeted for weapons.

On a related note, could /charinfo be modified to take a character (in the current sector) as an argument, much like "/duel rating"?

EXCELLENT IDEA
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Added to my HUD Improvement Summaries.