That sounds cool to me, I like the thought that you might get extra-lucky and find some Thermoplast lol. I'd found it in the original game so knew where it was ;)
I guess with the probes I got used to never losing any in the original unless I tried to scan certain habited planets. I'll try the cache option.
Is it possible (in the interests of being even lazier lol) to make planet scanning like the original, e.g you click once on "Land" and then the probes automatically scan everything until the planet is fully scanned. I actually quite like the way you do it in the new version though, it seems a bit more realistic, but just wondering if the option for the old way was there.
I'm going to continue my play through tonight, so will let you know if anything else catches my eye. :)