Exobiology - DSS Signal, but no "look here" blue zone visible?

[Releaux]

I've been doing a lot of exobiology lately and came across a weird one. With DSS, I found 4 bio signals: Bacterium, Frutexa, Stratum, and Tussock (Serrati). For the first three, I get the normal blue indicator and successfully located them all. The tussock, though, doesn't have any blue, despite several orbits of the planet in different orientations. I decided to try my luck anyway, having found plenty of tussock before, but it's not in any of the usual places.

Is this a (known) bug? I've come across some planets where the blue zones were basically single pixels, but I could still find them and the associated bio with careful looking. If anyone is passing through Hawking's Gap and wants to verify, the planet in question is Qeajaea RY-P c6-2 C 5.

The completionist in me hates leaving one behind (though I've been sorely tempted many times with those @$@#%@# fungoida), but there are plenty of other planets to explore.

Addendum: Planet C 4 also has tussock, but the entire planet shows blue for that one. I went back to C 5 and looked again for "flashing" blue pixels even, but nothing. Just very strange.

 

[Riverside]

I've found several planets where there is only one small blue region, or a few tiny regions that are hard to find until you go really close. But I've also had one or two where I was unable to find any regions at all & no indications on the planet in likely biomes. I presume there is some somewhere & it was just too small to be seen from orbit.

Possibly a bug but imo just move on, it's probably a quirk of procedural generation.

 

[Releaux]

Yeah, that was my assumption - I've found some of those tiny zones before, but this is the first time I ran across the entire planet being black. I can normally pick out the pixels on the night side, but no joy this time.

Thanks for the response. I'd already given up and gone to the next planet, but it's nice to know I'm not alone.

 

[Lhorndra]

It happened to me, too. But only once so far. Filed it under "procedural generation works, until it doesn't".

 

[varonica]

It happened to me, too. But only once so far. Filed it under "procedural generation works, until it doesn't".

They are usually there, but sometimes the are so tiny you need to change your method of search. For instance look at this, this is the only location I could find for this bio, it involved flying low around 90km up and slow, basically backwards and forwards across the night side, they would have been invisible on the day side so there may have been some there, but the only hope of spotting it was to do a night side search.

This was them in the end;