Airship Guide

Hey guys, thanks for the guide - I've been following it since ages even though it took me a while to understand what each stat did (and most importantly, how the trips worked...the distance thingie always looked strange), and it's been very helpful so far.

However, I've had a problem for about three weeks straight: I've been sending the ship repeatedly to sectors 13, 14 and 15 in order to unlock sector 19 and find the last Aetherochemical Fiber (as in: we have 13 of them and have been missing the 14th for weeks) to unlock the Tatanora set. Thing is, neither of these things are happening - so either I'm having horrible luck or there is something I'm doing wrong. In that case, I have no idea what it is.

It is possible that the build (which I can't remember right now, I'll have to wait tomorrow) far from optimal for either of those things, yet I'm having a hard time understanding which stats I should prioritize. Is the Fiber counted as a second drop (thus Favor?), is it confirmed that Surveillance helps with finding new sectors?

Sector 22 has Deep-Blue Clusters. Here is a pic of our Trip there.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a347/kalar2/Lore.png

It is just bad luck. I had the same problem trying to find SE18 from SE17.

I can concur with the bad luck. Running airships on 8 FC I have definitely gotten a feel for the RNG. My first FC to have a 50 airship had a 3-week lead on my 2nd-8th FC getting a 50 airship. Some RNG later, my first FC ended up being the 3rd one to unlock S01-S22 with all components being equal. Currently I have one FC that has been unsuccessful unlocking S17 or S19 for over a month now and have 3 other FC which are all around 0/10+ on S17 unlock. I swear some airships are piloted by Mr. Magoo.

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Originally Posted by Xenora

Only seen this happen 1 other time on the thread so figured I would share this one!

http://i.imgur.com/7OYfGfi.jpg

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Another SS for us :

http://i.imgur.com/6M4B0AE.jpg

Build:

Hull - Invincible I
Rigging - Invincible II
Forecastle - Invincible II
Aftcastle - Odyssey

Funny how we've only seen them coming from sector 16

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Originally Posted by Xenora

I'm kind of a unique case having 27 airships

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I ... don't even ...

What is this, are you playing on 8 different servers managing the airships for one FC on each server, or something?

That's a lot of airships, that's a lot of airship parts to manufacture, and that's a lot of FC Credits in fuel! I ... don't even know how to react to all that ..

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Originally Posted by Xenora

Funny how we've only seen them coming from sector 16

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Already had SS over two months ago and not from S16 ;)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...14#post3157314

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Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

I ... don't even ...

What is this, are you playing on 8 different servers managing the airships for one FC on each server, or something?

That's a lot of airships, that's a lot of airship parts to manufacture, and that's a lot of FC Credits in fuel! I ... don't even know how to react to all that ..

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probably not 8 different servers, but in fact, 8 characters on the same server, managing 8 different FCs and feeding fuel from the main FC to all of the branch FCs. The only problem with doing that would be getting a house for each of the branch FCs what with the limited availability of housing. The airship parts are trivial to manufacture as a wide majority of the mats can be bought from a vendor. In an FC that's willing to help, getting all of the GC seal mats aren't an issue either -- especially if people are looking for things to dump their FC seals on and already have 5 stacks of ventures.

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Originally Posted by TechnoTechie

probably not 8 different servers, but in fact, 8 characters on the same server, managing 8 different FCs and feeding fuel from the main FC to all of the branch FCs. The only problem with doing that would be getting a house for each of the branch FCs what with the limited availability of housing. The airship parts are trivial to manufacture as a wide majority of the mats can be bought from a vendor. In an FC that's willing to help, getting all of the GC seal mats aren't an issue either -- especially if people are looking for things to dump their FC seals on and already have 5 stacks of ventures.

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Pretty much this lol. Making 8x of each airship part has been pretty annoying but we have a lot of amazing members who have helped out with coke/ore donations. I have spent many weekends just working on airships. In return I've been able to give everyone a company set :p.

Getting 8 FC houses took well over a year and a little luck (friends sold some low, inherited a FC when everyone quit :( ). Back when gardening was good gil I was saving all profit exclusively for houses and for many months goblet had free plots on my server so finding an empty one was never a challenge.

The main benefit of having so many FC right now is that we can charge 8x Grade III wheels every 3 days. Then have someone FC hop and gather all the charged ones to bring over to the main FC. Doing this it is possible to keep up 2x Tier III buffs 24/7... if only there was exp tier III...