im pretty sure other people wil find this annoying to
my last scan run went up to 600 and im getting only 5 purgers a day (grrr takes ages to purge down to a 100)

what about a new ct lab artifact with some pros and cons

example

(noname)

50 star chart purgers
10 krionus virus traps
1 energy cube

You would create a controllable virus deleting planets from your database more efficient

deletes 75 planets at random

would rather just purge 50 planets i hate rather then risk purging one i like. -1

with an artifact you make there should not be a con with it since you have to collect the arties and E to make it in the first place!

i like the idea, gives you a reason to attempt those planet thefts before a random purging, OR you purge them manually..
I tend to get rid of ALL crap enemy planets, just so they arent cluttering my scans, then work on the unoccupied.
Yeah i know, bad odds if i get hacked, but thats the way i play.
Anything that speeds up purging is a good thing.
at the very least, there should be a 'purge current page' of planets.. you need ten purgers to use it, and you just click YES i want to purge. done.

If you need purgers that much, then at rank 115, you unlock the "Stellar Cartography" mission. which allows you to produce purgers.

I would like a select box to mass purge planets, but it's been suggested so many times that I doubt it'll be implimented.

and 750 energy for a purger.... that doesnt really speed things up

It's not meant to speed things up. It helps supplement the purgers you get from artifact pulls.

if you're unable to pull enough purgers at the speed you want, and you don't want to make the effort to actually produce them, then you shouldn't be doing large scan runs.

Even though large scan runs save time and credits

Did I say anything about it being cost effective?? Might wanna get those rolling eyes checked Billik.

If the poster is so impatient that he won't wait for his purgers to build up, and so whiny about energy that he won't use a mission to create them, then he should do small scan runs that he can actually clear.

I did a large scan run about 3 weeks ago, I'm waiting for my purgers to build up because thats the con of a large scanning run. you get cost effective scanning and it saves time as a pro, the con is that you have to wait until you can either produce them, or pull them from your AP shipments. seriously Billik, I thought you'd understand something like that. you can't have the pros, without the cons.

Guess I misread you, thought you were advising against blitzes and just doing small runs more often. I don't have the energy to be doing that mission for purgers either at the moment so yeah waiting is all you can do