1. The icon that shows you how far away your town is shouldn't be able to go behind another icon. Like the build icon. 2. When going to gather rss instead auto selecting militia and gaurds is selects the troops with highest/fastest gather ability/time. I've done the resesrch for my huntresses to be faster and carry more but they never get auto selected.
I agree with auto select for fastest gatherers! Just like the auto select would choose strongest attack troops as needed.