My intention to avoid over scouting in the early game just crashed and burned...I need KP, there is KP out there....and a coldfire phoenix just showed up in my MA with a pet food in the same rotation....overscouting will commence in the morning! I will be careful to clear as I overscout so I dont dig myself into a hole.
Edit @10 pm, 4/20 ...I scouted and cleared all that I could. Province number 43 in ring 5 called for T2s and put an end to my roll. Fortunately since I cleared each province as soon as I scouted it, I only have one ugly open, the rest of the ring is unscouted so the price will drop once I research chapter 3s Advanced Scout Tech. But until then I am frozen.