Well u would think with hundreds and thousands of playes and nearly a week of working barnaicles-meta alloys there would be something ( in any game a feature thats meant to be even rare as meta alloys are meant to be at the moemtn should have yielded something) which then sherlock would say the obvious solution is the one thats right in front of us, something is still bugged
I would most certainly not expect anything from so few people working in random and chaotic manners. Do you realize how much area there is to cover? It's like saying you're surprised that we haven't fully explored the milky way yet, with so many people.
As I stated earlier, a single 750 km planet (which is quite small as planets goes) is over 7 million square kilometers of area. The fastest ships fly at maybe 1400-1500 km/hr. It'll take you over 3 hours to fly around the same planet at an average 400m/s
That's the thing about space. It's huge. Planets are mindbogglingly large. We don't even know which planet(s) to look at. Sure someone might get randomly lucky, but it's incredibly unlikely. Unless we can see it from orbital cruise, any systematic search, even by 100+ players, is going to be tediously slow. Also you need to fly pretty low to see anything. Most objects are small when you're 1 km away.
I've found a crashed static POI ship on Charon (with a group of 5-6 of us searching). We knew the Lat and Long and planet. It took time.
I've failed to find another static POI crashed ship by myself, also knowing the Lat/Long/Planet. I search for hours within the area specified in the "missing ship" galnet message.
TLDR: Planets are big. Systematic searches are not likely to be effective, and random luck (unless they are really or extremely obvious from a large distance) is statistically unlikely.
Also, UA's originally were rare but could be found by mass people because they randomly appeared. Exceedingly rare, but still random. Specific location a planet in a 100 ly bubble (even if Merope seems most likely) is a whole other ballgame. Doesn't help that the POI system in general is very annoying and filled to the brim with tea.