Shipyard: Defense Preference

I think somebody mentioned something like that in another thread already, but I find it deserves its own thread:

It would be great if we could set preferences for the defenses that automatically assembled ships get equipped with. In the moment as far as I know that is only determined by "BestDefense" or so in the XML files, and what is your best defense depends solely on the techs you have researched.

But most of the time I need other defenses than those that I researched most. So if we could set preferences like "60% beam defense, 20% missile defense, 20% kinetic defense" or "0% beam defense, 100% missile defense, 0% kinetic defense" it would make life a lot easier, because right know you have to design your own ships when you need something other than automatically generated, and self designed ship designs are not automatically upgraded, so you have to do that yourself also, what is a lot of work ...

I would be content if that was a global setting that affects all shipyards, but even better would it be if you could set the preferences for each shipyard individually, since on large maps it's not uncommon that you have to fight several enemies at the same time with different ship layouts.

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This is much needed. Off-type defense doesn't do anything at all. If you get the wrong defense type, then its wasted space and money.

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Defense? What's that? I just mass missiles and destroy everything before they have a chance to return fire...

I agree that defenses should get looked at, I've found it more effective to focus exclusively on missiles and ship size over any other weapon and defensive tech. Production is also never a problem so why does it matter when you do lose ships?