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I'd be surprised if I am the first to mention this, (I did have a quick look through the forum though), but it seems to me like the button to top up a fleet is useless most of the time because it seems like the spaceport chosen for building the new ship(s) is completely randomly selected. I'm currently playing this game where I've got a very large empire, on a large map (the largest size there is I think) and I just unlocked command cruisers, so I wanted to add one of those to each of my attack fleets. Well, the first one I chose was at the very edge of the galaxy, I clicked the button, later when the ship was built I found out it was on the opposite side of the galaxy, pretty much as far away from the fleet as it could've possibly been.

I don't mind that it wasn't made in the system where I had the fleet, maybe that spaceport didn't have the resources or maybe it was very busy, but there's no way there wasn't a closer option available. It would be nice if there was an attempt to make the ships at a nearby spaceport.

Absolutely, there needs to be a submenu to select where the ships are built, just like there is when you build a new fleet from scratch.

Not positive on this but seems the algorithm for building does not sort by distance but rather by the shortest time for the ship to be completed.

You can always go to the order ships in construction tab. (far right tab) Order the ship(s) there. The Galaxy map will populate with flags at construction yards available for the build. A click at yards you wish to have ships contracted will get them started nearby. But then it is more clicks to assign them to the desired fleet.

Of course you can always just order the ship at the base of your choice when the base is in the lower left window.