Star Base weapons/defences to auto upgrade?

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I was just thinking about the Star Base defense problem and suddently it hit me. Should star bases upgrade their defences automaticly when you research the techs?

Maybe this has been suggested before, but I think everybody can agree, that later on the game SB defenses are pretty much useless. If they would get the defences/offences immidiately after your research the techs, they would last longer to the game?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well set a planet to building a constructor type ship. Set a rally point normal on a starbase. Set planet to send its ships to that rally point. Press turn button until ship is built. Voila.

You can set/change rally point to different starbases. I've been loving this for a while now.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If they would get the defences/offences immidiately after your research the techs, they would last longer to the game?

I really don't think this helps much at all. You're far better off using a top line fleet for this purpose. No matter how up to date a starbase's defenses are, a top line fleet will be able to take the SB out.

I've never added SB attack or defense modules to any SB I've ever built, but it looks to me that it takes 28 constructors to max out the SB's attack/defense. You could build 4 fully populated economic SB's for this number of constructors and use one fleet to defend all 4 of them. Starbase attack and defense modules seem very inefficient to me.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I never build SB defences/offences either. Too much work for nothing in the late game Maybe the SB defence/offence values should be increased signicantly?

@Supreme Shogun

I used constructor rally points also some time but it's still too much micromanagement to me, consider me lazy.