joe belter

I upgraded to the newest 1.1 beta a couple of days ago and noticed that when I upgrade my ships it makes me start over - it's not showing me what my current ship has on it and allowing me to remove just the item I want to upgrade. Instead I have to load each module from scratch... Is this right? Was the "old way" dropped?

I've been using Starbases to help protect my planets. I'm having a hard time figuring out how far away the bad guys have to be before my starbase fires on it. It seems that sometimes ships will walk right on by my starbase and attack my planets and my starbase doesn't do a thing! How does this work? Is there an area around the base that's supposed to be protected?