I'm always fiddling around in Preferences to change quality sliders depending on what I'm doing in-world. Like just walking around exploring, building, or C:SI combat.
A quick example is when I'm walking around exploring I have all graphics goodies like local lights and high terrain detail turned on but the four quality sliders at 50%. Draw distance at 128 and bandwidth at 800. So that's sorta a compromise between quality and performance.
When I'm building I have all graphics goodies turned on and the four quality sliders maxed out at 100%. Draw distance at 64 and bandwidth at 1500. So my local stuff loads quick but I don't care about what's far away.
Just sitting around chatting, enjoying the scenery, or shopping, same as building above but draw distance at 512.
But when I'm doing C:SI combat I have local lights turned off, terrain detail set to low, and the four quality sliders zeroed out at 0% with bandwidth at 400 to get the highest FPS possible and limit simlag.
I'd like the ability to save and load preferences presets so I can easily jump between settings. This could be done with a save and load dialog box in preferences or a dropdown list of saved presets maybe?
Like if I'm hanging around chatting in the beautiful Samurai Edo I like to be maxed out on quality to get the full experience. But someone could attack me at any time so it'd be awesome to be able to Ctrl-P, bang on a preset, and hit OK real quick instead of trying to fiddle around one slider at a time while I'm getting slashed up by some noob. _