Company Crafting/Airship Voyages Part 2

Airship voyages
*A high-rank airship was used on the stream to offer a demonstration.

First, you’ll have to prepare an airship with your free company. It will be possible to have a maximum of four different airships. This maximum will not be affected by free company house size or free company rank, so all free companies will be able to utilize the same amount.

Airships are created by four different parts, and by combining various parts the look and stats of the airships will change. If you build an airship with high speed, it will return from voyages in a shorter amount of time. However, there are various stats depending on which parts you use, so if you are focusing heavily on speed, your exploration power will decrease. You’ll have to pay close attention to how other stats will be affected when you place emphasis on another stat. Since there are different variations in stats for the parts that you combine, you can make 4 different kinds of airships or you can, of course, make four that are all the same. It will all depend on your goals.

Airships will have ranks and by continuing to send them on voyages you will earn experience points and rank up. When your airship’s rank increases, its capacity will also increase.

There are also ranks for the parts; the higher the rank, the better the stats will become. However, the higher ranking parts will take up more capacity. You will not be able to combine parts that exceed an airship’s capacity, so you’ll have to consider the airship’s capacity when you are building your ship. Next I would like to show you all what you can do by actually using this ship I created.

First, you’ll use a map and decide the route your airship will travel. With the map, the islands you discovered will be shown, and you’ll be able to indicate a couple of islands to send your airship. By giving the order to head to multiple islands, it will take a bit more time for your airship to return. Your airship will then head through the indicated path, and once its voyage is completed it will bring back items with it. The items you can obtain will differ based on the route and islands you explore, and you’ll have to consider various things to make your voyages efficient. You’ll be able to view a log that records which islands you’ve explored and what you have found from each of them. We’re hoping you all have a lot of fun exploring all the possibilities by sharing the information recorded in this log with other players over the internet and with your free company members.

If your voyage goes well and you are able to bring back a lot of items and rare items, you’ll be able to share them all with your free company members, sell them on the market boards to earn gil, or even role play with your members, so please have fun trying this all out.

While the airship voyages implemented this time will have NPCs riding on them for exploration, we will be continuing to update this system in the 3.x series. In a future update we will be making it possible to actually ride on the airships yourself and explore the islands.