Hello,

one of the most exciting part of the game (at least to me) is exploring and the possibility to find planets. I liked it so much that I ended up #1 on planets leaderboard. My situation now is the following:
- I've researched max scan
- I've used all missions scans buff (protogrid etc) at the last scan blitz
- scan blitz ain't no fun cause you have to mass scan in 5 mn (duration of protogrid ... You don't even have the time to savour each discovery, you have to spam click)
- to find new planets by scanning, I'm bound to find about 200 purgers (because I will never reach again the scan power I had when I did my last blitz since I used up buff I won't have anymore), and if I do, I will loose my top planet position (ranking update each time you scan).

I'm suggesting a new exploration mode based on scan: random search xx energy per click, results depend on scan ability, no search power decrease (like in planet searching)

basically it would be a lottery with results impacted by scan power.

What you could find:
- Nothing (yeah RNG goddes thingy)
- batch of minerals
- artifacts (from low to high value)
- rare NPC ship (appearing in battle mode)
- a planet (could be done thru artifact find, but I prefer directly a planet find, it can be enemy occupied. Cloak matters)
- a beacon launching a new mission

etc.

Tell me what you think about this.

I like it, this Deep Space scan mode would be nice. As you aim your sensors in between two stars and scan away, flipping from one place to another in the same way you just point your ship at random stars and scan away.

It would add another layer of scanning and depth.

I agree this would be a great idea. Depending on energy cost and the chances of getting each of the listed things. I think they would have to base the chances by rank or else either the smaller players would never get anything good or the big players would all ways get something good.

I love it. I see myself in your position some day, as I love to explore as many planets as possible. It would be nice to have the option to still find planets once that happens.

It's too bad purgers lower your overall 'planets found' score. I think it should only remove the planet from your scan list, and leave your score (even if only for the leaderboards) intact.