He just said he was looking to blow away missiles. But I get your point -- they can't be used for fleet defense/escort role. Once I get a couple of levels of refinement to them, I stick CIWS all over everything, even civilian ships.
On a different note, what's peoples' favored naming schemes for stars/planets/moons? Do you just leave them at the default, or use the auto-rename option to name based on theme, or what?
I've followed a variety of systems based on the flavor of my empire. One was a multi-ethnic UN-style meritocracy, with 5 jump points out of Sol, so I assigned each "arm" to a certain pantheon (Greek/Roman, Celtic, Norse, Chinese/Japanese, Vedic) and named notable systems and worlds based on that, with the RP implication that each 'arm' was colonized predominantly by different ethnic groups.
My current long-running game is a Graeco-Russian world empire united in a belligerent theocracy (spreading the light of the Patriarch to the worlds beyond!) so major worlds tend to be named after significant subrealms in either the Byzantine Empire or the Russian Empire. Most system names have been left as is, despite the anachronistic use of Gliese, Luyten and Ross numbers.
I want to do an Imperial Chinese game sometime soon, and go through and rename stars based on their classical Chinese astronomical names.