How does ship repairs work in this game?

[Stealth]

I find it tedious in games where you have to repair damage block by block with no auto repair to replace blocks for you. I can't imagine having 10 ships all beat up after combat and having to individually place blocks on all of them after each battle :s. Is there a repair button that just fixes your ships for you including blocks that are completely destroyed? I ask because empyrion has repair bays but they don't replace blocks that are completely detroyed and I hate having to look for missing blocks manually.


EDIT: to avoid spamming threads I'll ask an unrelated question here;

Are stations a good way to make money? I liked setting up stations in X3 to make most of my money instead of just fighting and selling salvage. With the alliance update it seems that there is OOS simulation now which should make them viable?

[ZhuragWar]

your crew repair damaged blocks over time but no destroyed blocks. after battle you can go to buildmode and repair your ship full with destroyed blocks if you have the money and material :) is very easy. sorry my english is bad :( have fun!!!!

[Free Like GNU]

Repair is further improved in the .12 Beta branch where you can repair or discard individual damaged blocks if you like or just repair the whole ship.

[Free Like GNU]

OoS mining is working nice since 12.1 Beta update. I've just started my station in beta and that seems to be working too.

[Stealth]

Ok sounds good!