Airship Guide

[Yaichiro]

Is there any way to obtain more favourable ratings? Most of my airships ratings are B and C.

[Magistrella]

Is there any way to obtain more favourable ratings? Most of my airships ratings are B and C.

The Rating that shows is just the amount of bonus exp you get. And most of the time its just showing the rating on the last sector you visited. So don't worry too much about it ^^

[TechnoTechie]

Is there any way to obtain more favourable ratings? Most of my airships ratings are B and C.

The Rating that shows is just the amount of bonus exp you get. And most of the time its just showing the rating on the last sector you visited. So don't worry too much about it ^^

Yea, the rating itself is not the important part as it's an arbitrarily assigned letter, but the bonus exp that you get can influence the rating (namely on the last sector visited I think is what people's voyages suggested?). If you were wondering how to increase your bonus exp, you want to increase your retrieval stat (and also maybe surveilance stat?), as your ship gets more exp for bringing back larger quantities of items.

[Magistrella]

Yea, the rating itself is not the important part as it's an arbitrarily assigned letter, but the bonus exp that you get can influence the rating (namely on the last sector visited I think is what people's voyages suggested?). If you were wondering how to increase your bonus exp, you want to increase your retrieval stat (and also maybe surveilance stat?), as your ship gets more exp for bringing back larger quantities of items.

Its not just the quantities but as well if you get dual items and what winds show up. But then you can get high winds optimal retrieval on both items and still get an Abysmal (Which rates as C and gives no bonus exp) in the end... so, meh rng is rng ^^

[Nyalia]

Is there any way to obtain more favourable ratings? Most of my airships ratings are B and C.

The letter grade shown is just based on the sector rating you received from the last sector you visited. Abysmal = C or B, Substandard = B or sometimes A, Satisfactory = A or rarely S, Decent = S or very rarely SS, Outstanding = SS. Only the last sector matters for the letter. But, as others have said, that letter means/does nothing.

But, if you do want to get higher letter grades for some reason, there are two things you can do. First, your per-sector rating goes up on average as your Favor stat goes up. Second, your per-sector rating goes down as you visit later sectors. Your best chance to get an SS rating would be to visit sector 01 last with a Tatanora Forecastle. Your worst chance would be to visit sector 16 with a Bronco Forecastle, or sector 22 with an Enterprise Forecastle (you need at least 90 surveillance to visit sectors 17-22). So either raise your Favor, or go to earlier sectors, or both.

Do I have to do anything specific to unlock Sector 13, 14 & 16? I have 11 & 12 unlocked and have been doing them with a Full Enterprise Build and I haven't unlocked anything beyond Sector 12.

Sectors 13 and 14 unlock from 11. Sector 16 unlocks from 12. Other than that, it's pure RNG.