Does anyone know if your Scan effects what planets you find using the star charts? Or is it completely random?


Edit: oops wrong section.

It is completely random form what I know.

It works as if you got a free 100% scan, so that your scanning power would still count to finding cloaked planets.

Speaking of which, this may have been discussed elsewhere (so my apologies) but now when I blitz, I start at 99% yet im failing quite often. More like I was scanning at 75% to start. Whats with that? I can't possibly roll that 1% that often...?

~Drake

Yeah, same here. Last weekend I did a blitz and had 11 fails at 99%. What's with that?

It gives an unoccupied planet.

Hrm, that is interesting... I didn't know/think about the scanning power. I was under the impression that it was just a random planet. Maybe it is time to hold onto them until after a scan blitz!

Just found a good terra planet with a star chart. I only had 400 scan at the time. I guess I just got really luck - and maybe it is just random afterall. I usually just find volcanic or toxic planets with the alien star charts - I wonder if you could even randomly find a dyson with them.

Best guess is that scanning is a two rolls game. First is the one you see (99% chance of success) followed by one against the planet's cloaking using your scanning capabilities. You basically missed 11 super good planets which had good cloak on them : )

Ooh good point. I've noticed that myself the last time I scanned, but I also had over 2k in scan power so they must have been packing some serious cloak.





Negative, it always reveals an unoccupied planet. That's why I always wait to use them though until I have a spot open to colonize because if the planet is good (which suprisingly for me quite a few of them have been) I can colonize immediately, build up the cloak and not have to worry about anyone else that has scanned it.

Since unoccupied planets don't have cloak. I don't understand all this talking about cloaking and scan power for Chart use ...

Oh Man! I could'a gone the rest of my life without hearing that, thank you.

The Alien Star Charts artifacts is a 100% chance to find a random unoccupied planet; I do not believe that scanning has anything to do with it.

If you have a 99% chance to find a new planet and you fail, it is normally due to you finding an occupied planet, but losing the cloak versus scan roll.

Alien Star Charts artifact? i have been playing GL for awhile now, and have not even seen one of those. How can one obtain an alien star chart?

It's worth 10,000 artifact points and is an uncommon draw.

Yeah I get them fairly often. I was mistaken though by it's wording though, it's not neccissarily uncolonized. I discovered a rather nice massive oceanic last night colonized from someone. After a blitzkreige assault and a flux the pop is now slaving away for me. b

Yes, 10k, it is also tied for the 2nd most often drawn item so ultra common.