Designer suggestion: Focus

Comments?

I use research to focus weapons and armor.  The AI picks the best tech and that works for me.  I very much use a single maxed out weapon type for attack.  Best defense is tuned to current opponent.  It is a blunt force method of focus, but it works for me.  Otherwise, if needed, I manually equip ships, usually because of defensive priorities for multiple attack methods;  

What I would like to see is a button set at the top of the ship list that changes the BestDefense to a SetDefense that the user can change. As someone who tries to research everything, it bothers me when the "best defense" (as determined by research progress) for the auto-built ships is anti-missile and I want to use kinetic defenses. I like the way the sort list is at the moment, where I can have a different ship model based on the weapons used, I just want to be able to have the computer add in the appropriate amount of the defense type that I want. Ideally, I would also be able to select BalanceDefense to have it throw in a relatively even number of each type as well.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work for defense.  For the non-balanced types, the Designers seems to choose one defense type at the beginning and stick to it come hell or high water.  Might be appropriate, might not.   The AIs seem similarly fixated, though at least they spread their defenses around.  The player is offered 12+ ships - all with Shield only, or Armor only.

EasyWin has an interesting idea.

I have been asking for this since the original base game beta.  GC2 had it!