User blog comment:Commdor/BioWare Releases ME2 Statistics/@comment-1221773-20100906190035/@comment-737801-20100906191838

Yes the patch makes scanning a planet much easier. It takes between two and three minutes now to scan, compared to the 5+ previously. Well for me anyway.

And yes it it was one of the those concepts that seemed like a good idea, but then doesn't turn out so well.