Are you serious?

In a 4 players FFA game I'm currently playing, there's one player I have only seen one planet of.  If I give another player a mission, I can cycle through ALL their planets.

In another game, I saw a known planet on the list.  I novalithed it and it was removed from the list.  A scout confirmed it was dead.  15 mins later, that planet reappared on the mission list despite me not having sight to it (still grey on my map).  A scout later confirmed it had been re-colonized.

lbgsloan, I guess I'm not really sure what you are talking about.  The mission screen itself will not "show" a planet, i.e. I cannot bring up a planet and look at the grav well and see all the ships moving around and the defenses.

Now, if you are saying a planet will appear on the list of planets to target, well yeah.  But that's not exactly "scouting" the planet!  Your term is misleading.

This is probably not a bug at all, i.e. it is intended behavior.  If people don't like it, I guess one "fix" would be to always have all planets appear in the mission screen.  Then if you give a mission to a dead planet, it is your fault and means you didn't scout it.

Now I see what you are talking about - thanks.