Airship Guide

[Sigmakan]

If the conditions are more than just surveillance we may need to have a full arsenal of the top tier airship parts and then swap them out to get to the certain stat level.

[Shadowsun]

Did a fun 14-11-13 voyage. Airship #3 unlocked, Sector 15 unlocked and got a LOT of airship mats - 36 chemical chimera hides, 4 aethero fiber, 5 synthetic fiber, 6 cassia logs and some materias. Pretty good haul. All documented on the Google doc

[Nyalia]

I made a new tab in the log spreadsheet to track the items in a static format so I can group them into categories, insert the items no one has found yet, and check for patterns. I see you're doing the same thing in the OP, Bonzai! Here's what I've found:

Each sector has exactly the following: 1 FC Crafting material. 1 Schematic item. 1 Unique housing/minion material. 1 Generic Crafting material. 2 Crystals. And I have no idea how much Materia. The Materia is the one that we don't have enough datapoints for a clear analysis. No one has even reported finding half of them! The rest is pretty clear though.


EDIT: And now I've redesigned the "Sector List" tab's per sector item list to categorize the drops based on the static item list tab. Anything not in a category will be listed in the Uncategorized field, including any uncorrected typos (or plurals). It'll make finding the typos even faster!

[BonzaiFerroni]

I made a new tab in the log spreadsheet to track the items in a static format so I can group them into categories, insert the items no one has found yet, and check for patterns. I see you're doing the same thing in the OP, Bonzai! Here's what I've found:

Each sector has exactly the following: 1 FC Crafting material. 1 Schematic item. 1 Unique housing/minion material. 1 Generic Crafting material. 2 Crystals. And I have no idea how much Materia. The Materia is the one that we don't have enough datapoints for a clear analysis.

Awesome! Yeah I noticed a pattern when I was making the new graphics for sector details, quite interesting ^_^ It seems like sectors have materia themes, some of them seem to be best to visit if looking for crafting materia, some for gathering materia, and then the majority for DoW/DoM. As Waring believed, some sectors drop type III and some type III, and a few seem to have a chance at both.

I hope I wasn't the culprit for the copy/paste errors, I think I might have misunderstood what you meant when you mentioned it before. I'll be more careful. I can't thank you enough for the spreadsheet, it has been so useful \o/ I'm a tad behind on data entry but i've been saving screenshots to enter on a rainy day.

[BonzaiFerroni]

I'll just leave this here

You are some kind of airship wizard \o/ have you discovered anything that might help the folks who are having some bad luck unlocking sectors?

[Magistrella]

You are some kind of airship wizard \o/ have you discovered anything that might help the folks who are having some bad luck unlocking sectors?

Would really like to know that as well - im sending out my only airship (because duh) which is at rank 12 now only with sector 1 2 3 exp to sector 2 since 3 weeks to unlock Sector 4 and 5 and... nothing - its getting annyoing to say the least - the most EXP ill make if i get two perfect surveys is 52k, which is less then sector 5 gives and its.... lets say - really annoying and hindering the progress ><
Originally i wanted to skip the rank 10 airship parts and go to rank 15 (enterprise) right away to save materials because i mean its a rank 1 sector, so the rank 1 airship should be enough to discover new sectors - right? q.q

[Aeyis]

Materia seems to be grouped by type. If one crafting drops in a sector all crafting types drop there, same with gathering. Im not sure what the other groups are tho as I only payed attention to those 2.

[Nyalia]

Materia seems to be grouped by type. If one crafting drops in a sector all crafting types drop there, same with gathering. Im not sure what the other groups are tho as I only payed attention to those 2.

Yes, those two are definitely grouped. I meant the other materia though - we don't have enough data for it.




I see someone has reported finding Sector SC19 - can someone corroborate the discovery, tell us where it unlocked from, and/or post screenshots of where it is on the map? I thought we were only going to get to SC18 this patch!

I'm still really surprised that we're still in the Sea of Clouds. I really expected later sectors to be in a new zone (Churning Mists, Azys Lla, etc), hence the "SC" at the start of my sector designations...

[Waring]

I'll just leave this here

[Nyalia]

I'll just leave this here

I've heard reports of it coming from 15 too.