Can I change the distance of the mouse zoom?

[LiQuid]

Go to options, keys, category: UI

Under that category there is a UI option for "Toggle Title window" I forget what the default key is, but change it to a nice easy to reach key and while you're kiting press it and you can use the mouse to spin the camera and zoom really far out with it.

The actual title window itself is resizable, so you can shrink it down, make it transparent, tuck it away under some other UI element, whatever. The key will then just work as a way to instantly get to a handy third person view with a really far zoom.