ME2 did you scan EVERY planet?

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I scanned everything on the second playthrough, found a lot more minerals, a couple more quests, but nothing of any real note. I hated scanning, I started feeling like it was Bioware's own personal fuck you to everyone who complained about the Mako driving. "You think that was annoying? Wait 'til you get a load of this!"

 

[AlphaOmega]

Hell no, for every playthrough after my first I give myself a good amount of minerals with a trainer. (not money though) and do not bother with non N7-ones.
I do not upgrade everything though, I do 1-2 upgrades after every major quest to keep it fair.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

One moment, why have people only mentioned the Zanethu mission? I thought it was pretty meh to be honest. Played it on both my playthroughs, and can't really say I found it even the slightest bit interesting.

 

[Adanos]

I think yes. Especially Uranus.

 

[sephiroth1991]

I only scaned if it said 'Rich'

 

[ribonuge]

I explored every planet but I didn't scan all of them. I always ended up scanning out of curiosity, just to see if there was plentiful supplies of Element Zero or Platinum. Otherwise I would do it to buy upgrades, most of which I got.

 

[Doug]

I zoom in on every planet, but I only scan the ones that are Rich or Good (unless I think there's Element Zero: if the description of the planet has "element zero" or describes it in any was a "garden world", it probably has eezo). Zooming in is close enough for EDI to tell you if there's an anomaly, and yes, there are some anomalies not tied to missions you know about.

This - there is absolutely no need to mine every planet in the galaxy - hell, 2 hours of mining is pretty much enough to have all the resources you need to research everything - (available here - thought he's alittle short in one of them, can't remember which [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/105/index/888565]).

 

[The_ModeRazor]

I cheat for resources.

Second that.
I got very bored with scanning after about an hour.
But I zoomed in usually to see if there's any missions.

(!!! MASSIVE SPOILERS, EXCERCISE CAUTION!!!)

One assignment was a real downer: you must stop a missile trying to destroy a colony. Turns out, there's two missiles, one for the colony center and one for the industrial/technological/whatever region. You can only save one.

 

[teutonicman]

WHO would do that? That would be such an insane thing to do! Hell it was hard for me to justify doing all that scanning to get the upgrades.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

I zoomed in on every planet but I only kept 25k minerals on hand (with the exception of the med-bay upgrade in which I went out of my way for more minerals)

Holy shit.
Didn't you know, that if you don't heal your face and go all renegade, you'll look like the Terminator?
Now that's just awesome. (just sayin', not judging you or anything)

 

[Tharwen]

Slight side-track, but is there any point in buying the med-bay?

The message at the beginning said the scars would heal anyway if I was nice to people, and they don't seem to have any disadvantages.

 

[BloodyThoughts]

Nah, to busy killing and getting kinky alien butt secks, what else would someone do?

 

[TheAntmanCometh]

i scanned all of them once i had completed the game while looking for side quests - and do you get anything for 100%? - the hell you do!

 

[JasonxX]

No,I find that mini-game very boring.Even tho you get some fat loot .

 

[Amnestic]

Slight side-track, but is there any point in buying the med-bay?

The message at the beginning said the scars would heal anyway if I was nice to people, and they don't seem to have any disadvantages.

If you don't mind scars, no point.
If you're going full Paragon, no point.

If you do mind scars/terminator eyes and you're going renegade, there is a point. That's pretty much it though.

Scanned a good 75% of the planets, mostly while watching TV.
Realized I wouldn't need the 1 million of each resource that I was slowly getting up to, and stopped scanning. Simply zoomed in on each planet to check for anomalies from then on.


Wish I could trade Palladium for Iridium and Platinum. When I stopped I had like 900k Palladium.

Max you need of any resource is Platinum (225k not including medbay), followed by Iridium and Palladium at about 205k each as I recall, with Eezo coming in at about 31k (not counting advanced training/retrain powers).

Anything extra is pointless.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

I zoomed in on every planet but I only kept 25k minerals on hand (with the exception of the med-bay upgrade in which I went out of my way for more minerals)

Holy shit.
Didn't you know, that if you don't heal your face and go all renegade, you'll look like the Terminator?
Now that's just awesome. (just sayin', not judging you or anything)

I am well aware of that. I'm just a bit of a completionist. I'll buy the upgrade but no way in hell I'll use it when I go renegade. Rather disappointed that Bioware didn't do anything for going the paragon route besides clearing up your scars.

Yeah, I kinda wished that if you went renegade, your scars would be heal, but your eyes would be glowing blue. Would make Paragon Shepard fun to play with.

 

[The Heik]

I didn't and I wanted to know if it was worth scanning every single planet.

Did anyone find anything interesting for getting 100% planets scanned? or was it simply more rocks and resources?

I have this feeling that I missed out on a couple side missions because I didn't scan 50% of the galaxy, I mean I did every loyalty mission, I still feel like I missed something.

So I guess what I want to know are there any other anomalies on planets that you can land on and do something besides though tied directly to the Loyalty missions or ones you already know about? Especially with the star charts you can buy on illium.

Well technically speaking, I scanned every planet, but it was only to see if any missions were around. I was disappointed with those missions.

Fully scanned? *ahem* [HEADING=1]HELL NO![/HEADING]

That would be a waste of my time, as you'll NEVER need all those resources. The total resources required for the researches doesn't even come close to those available on the planets.

edit: Why would they put so many extra resources if you don't even need half that much?