Not sure if this has been mentioned. When you use the auto upgrade ships in the design screen it will replace whatever support module you have and replace it with the most advanced one available. As someone who creates ships with quite specialised functions (i.e. guards, attackers, invaders) this can be quite tedious as the upgrade gives me a support module that I frequently don't want, and I have to manually change it back.



May I suggest removing the support tier of modules from the auto upgrade function so that ship specialisation isn't affected? If this is seen as too severe then at least the support modules should be linked so that the same types upgrade - i.e. the weapons boost module upgrades to the superior weapons boost rather than the defence boost just because it happens to be higher up the research tree and therefore "superior", when actually it's just different.



Thoughts?

The latter approach would work - the former would not if you make any armor-tanking designs and want to still use auto-upgrade. Then again, personally I never use the auto button, and manually redesign every time I upgrade anyway :P