Missing potential biologicals due to not having been seen in region

[teptec]

I've had a couple of instances where I have found biologicals on a planet that weren't shown in the potential biologicals list.
In most cases, the reason was that this biological hadn't been logged in this region (I'm down in Kepler's Crest, so there are lots of unlogged colours).

I realise that once someone finds each missing colour, it will start showing up in the potentials list.
But until that time, these false negatives will continue,

My concern is that I'm actually looking for these more rare varieties, and if I was to rely on the canonn-signals page, I would never see the most interesting biologicals shown.

An example.
This is easy to detect because there are 4 biological signals but only three potentials shown:

DSS says there's a Fungoida. The star is M class. The body contains Tellurium. A little data mining suggests this should be Fungoida Bullarum - Red:

Check the biological page and sure enough, not logged in Kepler's Crest:

And double-checking:

[NoFoolLikeOne]

We cannot assume that all biologicals are in all regions because we have seen distinct patterns pegged to spiral arms. So we have to choose between false positives and false negatives or build in some specific logic for that.

[teptec]

I agree that this is a difficult problem to resolve.
I think perhaps it's best to park this for a while.
Work on the false positives and false negatives and see if we can improve the guesses to be quite accurate.
At that point it will be more obvious that this state has been encountered because the FSS scan will show 4 biologicals but the potentials will show only 3.

One option for specific logic might be to pillage the in-game codex for data. Much more data in there about which species appears in which sector than we have in the Canonn database.

Another option would be to add a user-configurable option to enable/disable filtering by region.