Try the new formations in the latest gold patch.
Breaking formation is always good.
Mineral Scanners are indeed pointless. It takes a lot less research to get System Robotoid IIIs than it does to get System Mineral Scanner IIIs (and the org and rad ones too). Same goes for comparing the planet affecting ones too.
[ January 31, 2003, 19:39: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]