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The description for the tech 'Stellar Cartography' says that you can now see planets on the miniscanner, and that high-quality planets will show up differently. Indeed, planets do show after researching the tech, but high-quality planets look exactly the same as the others. Am I missing something obvious?
AFAIK all planets look the same on the minimap, so it seems more like the description of the tech is a bit misleading.
Stellar Cartography used to show habitable planets as yellow dots on the mini-map so you could more easily find planets during the colony rush, instead of having to guess or explore every star. Now, stellar cartography is absolutely worthless to even research, ever, since it helps in no way at all (unless the number of planets is set to a very very low number). The only thing it does do is bad, which is cluttering up the mini-map with tons of extra grey dots everywhere unless you are zoomed out quite a bit.
Indeed now it's only useful to know which stars don't have any planets. Or it lets you focus on those stars with a decent number of planets, because there you would hope to find more habitable ones.
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