OK so I started up my game as Drengin (what else since I played mostly Korath in GC2 and don't play these games to be "nice") and was happy to see my starting colony ship with 5 mp and my survey ship with a nice 7 mp to easily grab the nice array of interesting anomolies now. But there was a scout (added since GC2 but no miner yet) but with only 3 mp that scout can't get anywhere fast to scout.
IMO, that starting scout needs several more mp.
thx .. neilkaz ..