1.4 Try smugglig now! In it a zero tollerance shoot on discovery ploicy is enacted galaxywide, and all ship's larger than the Asp are auto-insta-scanned on entering starport's to discourage their use with illegal hauling. I can dream.
Nothing new for Exploration except for one small change: scanning is simplified so that all you need to do is D Scan a system to get 1st tag credit. To balance this, all "Unknown" systems will now be Type L dwarfs and ice planets to increase hardware performance.
1.4 Powerless Play
For the sake of balance and fairness, the powerless players (ones who are not pledged to any of the powers) would be allowed (read: obliged) to grind no less then ones pledged. The effects will be only for a separate powerlessplay layer of the game, connected neither to powerplay nor to the minor factions. Ah, and of course the effects will not work until at least a couple of minor patches fix them.