This suggestion is an idea taken from the game "Stellaris", which I'm sure many of you know.
A way to spice-up the somewhat tedious life of the explorer: Scanning events.
Upon scanning a planet or stellar body in general, the commander may receive special events which may require him to land or drop out of supercruise should he wish to investigate. Something like:
Upon scanning a moon, he would receive a message: "There's a strange rocky formation on this planet that is likely not a natural formation". Then a new location point would show up on his navigation pane "Strange Formation". If he does go down, he may find the remnants of an exploded nuclear weapon, which left behind a small cache of heavy materials, or he may find a formation of canyons that have notyhing to pich up but which will increase the value of his scan, or he may find a site of fallen ships which may contain some leftover cargo, or maybe a rogue installation that is hostile to his approach.
There are many interesting ways this could go, and I feel it would really add a lot of flavor to exploration.
A way to spice-up the somewhat tedious life of the explorer: Scanning events.
Upon scanning a planet or stellar body in general, the commander may receive special events which may require him to land or drop out of supercruise should he wish to investigate. Something like:
Upon scanning a moon, he would receive a message: "There's a strange rocky formation on this planet that is likely not a natural formation". Then a new location point would show up on his navigation pane "Strange Formation". If he does go down, he may find the remnants of an exploded nuclear weapon, which left behind a small cache of heavy materials, or he may find a formation of canyons that have notyhing to pich up but which will increase the value of his scan, or he may find a site of fallen ships which may contain some leftover cargo, or maybe a rogue installation that is hostile to his approach.
There are many interesting ways this could go, and I feel it would really add a lot of flavor to exploration.