Airship Guide

[BonzaiFerroni]

Sorry for vanishing, but babies are complicated. I'll try to update the spreadsheets within the next few days.

It isn't going anywhere, it'll be there when you have time! \o/ =)

Thinking out loud here, depending on what we're trying to do with the spreadsheet it might be smart to denote the date on entries of 3.1 entries vs 3.0. It seems like they changed where a lot of things drop from in the latest patch; they might have also changed some of their formulas and using data from 3.0 might mess up analyses.

This seems like a great idea, I got a little suspicious when some old items are suddenly available in new areas. I'm curious if they might have done some reshuffling.

Ok, Spend some time sifting through the airship logs and found something that may not be 100% accurate but I found it to be 100% interesting.

Thanks for sharing the data and the write-up! I no longer feel like I'm up-to-snuff on the latest observations for stats, so I'm definitely open to hearing some conclusions that are supported by data. If my memory serves me right, I think Nyalia also thought that Favor was important for quantity. Time to go refresh my memory!

Seems like "Dravanian Mote" was credited as being discovered in sectors 13 and 6, however in the big table (which is all I look at when farming items), it has been added to sector 13 and not sector 6.
Been lurking on this thread here since day one, would like to take this opportunity to say a sincere thanks.

Thanks for pointing it out! I sometimes edit one but forget to edit the other

[Suirieko]

Seems like Sector 19 also gives you Hard mode Diadem as well.

[Malakai]

Been trying to soley farm motes with our airships since day after patch when they were discovered. Airships usually takes a day and a half to do their trips. Here are the results.

Airship 1: survey 104, retrieval 86, favor 100 - has yet to bring back motes from sectors 6, 13, and 17, out of 10 tries
Airship 2: survey 114, retrieval 104, favor 118 - has yet to bring back motes from sectors 6, 13, and 17, out of 10 tries
Airship 4: survey 124, retrieval 122, favor 126 - has obtained 5 motes from 1 trip to sector 6. Yet to acquire motes from 13 and 17, out of 8 tries

So I'm not sure if RNG is just horrid crap as usual (like with retainer ventures and minions), or if you need a certain # of survey/favor in order to have a slim chance at getting these, or if SE changed the RNG factor to obtaining all the things overall. There's rarely any on the MB and not many mog homes either, maybe about 6 or 7 total in all the wards in all 3 cities. Mainly getting deep-blue crystals, empty crystals/clay, chemically treated chimera hides, and rarely some materia from these trips.
Have noticed wind factors vary in what's obtained; No wind = A few items (mainly junk like empty crystals/clay) + low quantity, High winds = better loot (HQ materials and materia) + higher quantity, Turbulent/Violent winds = junk items + low quantity (pretty much the same as no wind.).

[Portley]

No wind = A few items (mainly junk like empty crystals/clay) + low quantity, High winds = better loot (HQ materials and materia) + higher quantity, Turbulent/Violent winds = junk items + low quantity (pretty much the same as no wind.).

I found the same thing when looking at logged data. Its weird, you would think it would be something like:

No wind = most favorable collection condition
high wind = medium favorable collection condition
violent turbulence = least favorable collection condition

in reality the logs say high wind tends to give the most items followed by no wind and then violent turbulence being a huge penalty to qty collected

[PotatoTree]

My FC's Poverty Airship with stats:
Surveillance 100
Retrieval 100
Speed 100
Range 86
Favor 104

Brought back 3 motes today from sector 13, it also experienced high wind, and then experienced violent turbulence right after getting the motes.

[Dezwaan]

Unlocked HM today going from sector 17 to 18 (Sector 17 unlocked it).

Seems it is any level 50 sector has the chance to unlock the diadem.

[BonzaiFerroni]

Nyalia, have we run any analyses on whether wind condition or any stat is correlated with rarity/desirability of the item? Seems it is a popular theory! It is hard to gauge that variable, rarity/desirability. We could think of things like crystals and common airship mats to be on the low end and things like dravanian motes, shrub seedling, etc. to be on the high end.

[Lirum_Shalquoir]

Some quick data I gathered about repairing.

[Arcticharm]

Some quick data I gathered about repairing.

This is awesome, I'm glad someone has been diligent enough to do this (I totally mentioned it way back and have been too lazy to do it myself)

[Baa]

Sectors 17 and 18 have Cassia logs now.

Sector 17



Sector 18