massacre missions bugged ?

[operant]

Took a massacre misison to kill 'infected blue crew'.
Dropped into three or four mission targets (coloured blue and identified as such on the side-panel), labelled distress calls.
Not a single 'blue crew' ship to be found.
Killed a few others, but none counted towards the mission target number.
Gave up.
Is this just RNGesus at work, or a bug?

 

[Factabulous]

Still bugged after all these years. Might be able to metoo an issue, though they might have all expired by now.

 

[Homerzilla]

I was dumb enough to take a "massacre 10 ant hill mob smugglers" - in Maia system. Dropped in 12 (!!!) spots marked as "mission target", always tons of faction ships there, not a single one market as "mission target" despite the FACT the dropping spot was clearly "mission target" labelled !

I try multiple tactics :
1 - used the FSS to locate the target - get the "mission target" indicator but when I drop there no "mission target" ship, only faction targeted ships !
2 - used the NavPoint to download data - same dumb results.

After several years, the devs still do not bother to fix this fraking bug....

Lost 2 hours for nothing, in a system where targets are at 300 000 sl distance.... I give up on this kind of missions, the frustration levels are insupportable !