If you have a planet on scan (enemy planet) for more than 12 hours, but you invade then alert, will it still count for ranking Zane?

If it works like the planet scan legion mission tasks where you colonize or invade, it should.

It was with that in mind is why I was asking. Can anyone confirm this?

from what your saying

You have a planet on yours scan, its been there for more than 12 hrs
no, invading or colonizing then alerting wont work

however.
Someone else has a planet on their scan for more than 12hr. They alert it and you invade or colonize then alert, then yes. it will work

What Peticks said.

Basically, it has to be a new planet on your own scans database, whether that's from a crit hack, scan, or colonizing/invading a share from somebody else.

Can you not alert, purge, conquer, then alert again as soon as the original alert expires? Kinda like with Bane?

Or does the time on scan become the time since your first alert when you purge it?

I haven't tested that but expect that it would work.