Airship Guide

[super_aardvark]

I haven't read the last couple of pages of posts, but I just had an expedition come back with some interesting results. I've entered it on the spreadsheet; some highlights that you can see on the spreadsheet:

Two new sectors unlocked. In sector 07, rating was Abysmal, and weather was Turbulence; despite this, sector 10 was unlocked. In sector 08, conditions were more favorable and sector 09 was unlocked.

We collected two items from every sector, which is quite extraordinary for this airship. What changed? We replaced the Bronco hull and aftcastle with Invincible hull and Enterprise Aftcastle, reducing Surveillance and Favor.

A very interesting point that's not reflected in the spreadsheet concerns the repair condition of the parts. Hull and Rigging began the journey at 11% and 20% respectively, while the Fore- and Aftcastles started at 100%. The latter two ended at 76%, while the former ended at 0%.

The conclusions this experience seems to suggest (obviously, more data points are required to have any real confidence):

• Performance and weather in a sector do not determine discovery of new sectors.
• Simple airship part grade (minimum? average?) is the primary factor in obtaining a second item in a sector.
• Repair condition does not affect your chances of obtaining a second item.
• There's no point in repairing your parts before they hit 0%.

[BonzaiFerroni]

We collected two items from every sector, which is quite extraordinary for this airship. What changed? We replaced the Bronco hull and aftcastle with Invincible hull and Enterprise Aftcastle, reducing Surveillance and Favor.

If I recall correctly, you already had an enterprise forecastle, is that right? So it still doesn't quite go against the popular notion that the forecastle is important.

If simply the overall grade of your parts is a factor (in either the sector unlock or the 2nd item question)... well that would be fairly convoluted, I would hope SE wouldn't make it so weird to have a "hidden" stat like this. XD Still, lets keep it on the list of hypotheses to test when we have enough data! I think it still is reasonable to think that RNG plays some role in addition to whatever else, so that might also explain your results.

Once we have a sector with enough data points, and enough people who have various levels of forecastle, we can test the "surveillance improves the odds of finding a 2nd item" hypothesis! \o/