While I like not having to design my own ships all the time, I'm really disliking the ship/plant window even more now. As you build auto-designed ones, purchase ships from other civs, and get free ones from events you end up with a real junkboat navy and it's pretty hard to find anything. Especially since the computer deletes old designs so you can't open the shipyard to see how many Phoenix M2s you have.

I'd really like something like the colony list in the civ manager, where you could sort by weapons, defense, hp, speed, range, etc while seeing what's fleeted and what's orbiting along with being able to upgrade/obsolete classes and single ships without having to go back to the map constantly. A second tab for starbases would make things perfect, sortable by weapons, defense, total modules or effect.

Essentially, what I find it that the interface is fairly bad at things answering questions like "Which starbases don't have Battle Stations?" and performing tasks like "Upgrade all ships two generations old and obsolete everything three generations or more." It's even more pronounced with the free ships when I want to know what the longest range or fastest ship I have is. Or even if there's something using missiles I can gift to my enemy's enemy.