Few appreciate the current hot-spot based mining approach. Rather than complain, I thoughts I'd take a stab at describing a potential new approach which would be fairer and potentially even fun. Key in this approach is that planets won't get mined out, and new players will have a decent chance at finding good stuff. So here we go:
1) Remove Territory Scanning units (or limit their use to old planets as the new system is phased in).
2) When a player claims a tile, the