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Hello!

Suggestion:
After a rocket launch containing a Satellite, the Satellite should begin detecting underground or hidden ores in revealed tiles. It scans and reveals tiles one (or more) at a time, like the radar, but also uncovers hidden or underground ores. Like the radar, it would have a limited range it can scan determined by where the rocket was launched.

I suggest incorporating the Satellite because:

• 1) It's already in the game (don't need to add an ore detector)
  2) The radar functionality is already in the game, the satellite would be similar with the exception/similarity of the limited range
  3) Adding more ore prior to satellites would complicate the existing balance for research/construction

That's it! I'm keeping it short and sweet. There are two existing ideas I'm building that concept off:

• 1) In the Development Proposals: Hidden Ore viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10
  2) Satellite Uses: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2114

The next step would be creating some new mechanism to mine the new ore types and eventually creating new things from those ore types. The long term vision is, Post-Satellite launch would extend the current end-of-the-game, and would allow the player to start researching (and building) the next tier, whatever that next tier may be.

Good idea. I like the satellite acting as a better radar.