So as of late I have had issues locating my orbital units when looking at my base. So I was thinking that this can be solved by ether: - hiding ground units when you zoom out enough or - When you zoom out enough you can toggle a semi transparent orb that will appear between the orbital and aircraft layers to increase visibility.
Settings, UI, Show Terrestrial, set to Range Dependent. I ended up not using it because I often wanted to see everything at that zoom level. Maybe in the future we'll be able to set our own range value.
The last several games I played I ended up unable to use the orbital layer because I couldn't find my units. My base below was so cluttered with icons that I couldn't be sure my orbital fabber was still there even. It may have been shot down by an avenger and I would never know.
I usually just set my rally point for orbital launcher well outside my base and look at my base on a 90 degree angle (so if my base is in North America I swivel my camera to look directly at Spain for instance) when im looking for them as they are easier to select that way since i see them against space instead of my base
I'd prefer a button to toggle between orbital icons & land icons to make the orbital more easily distinguished.