I play Sins of a Solar Empire, and one game feature that I really like is that once you've colonised a planet, you can "explore" it to search for useful materials that you would not otherwise know are there. These bonuses help to differentiate planets even more than simply by their class (Terran, Icy, Volcanic, etc), give players some additional options once they've colonised a planet, and give a player more to think about when deciding what to build/how to specialise a planet.

The useful materials come in two different forms:

Advanced Devices: These devices give your entire empire a boost of some kind, such as improved weapon damage, but these are extremely rare.
Planet Bonuses: These bonuses are varied and relatively plentiful, and can be both good and bad, improving or reducing some aspect of the planetary stats. Planets can have more than one of these each. Examples include veins of rare resources which boost mining output, or military prisons that reduce max population but increase defence. Some of the bonuses are planet type-specific as well, for example, the Massive Pure Glaciers bonus gives a boost to trade income but can only be found on Ice planets.

I've been thinking that planet bonuses could be adapted for Galaxy Legion. There are two possibilities;

[*]We could have a system where immediately upon colonisation, a random effect occurs, (Automatic) or;
[*]We could have a system where once a planet has been colonised, players get the chance to explore/scan the planet. (A clickable option)

There are lots of bonuses that we could have in the game as well, and since Galaxy Legion has significantly more planet types than Sins has, the list of bonuses could be significantly bigger. We could come up with a list, but firstly, what do people think of this idea?