Airship Guide

[AerisVII]

Please help!
If you send the airships always to the same sectors do you start seeing diminishing results?

I have 4 Lv 50 Frugal Freighter Design Airships that I send out for crafting materia but the last 10 trips they brought back less then 20 IV back, is it just bad luck or is their some mechanic that I don't know about in play?

[kenshinjr]

Love this guide. I wanted to say I found Cassia Logs in sector 17. They aren't currently listed there. Not sure if this is the place to report findings, but wanted you to know.

[Ranzan]

Ok I need help because I can't get materia from sector 13 to save my life. All I get are either motes (have way too many) or crystals.
Hull: bronco
Rigging: tatanora
Forecastle: invincible
Aftcastle: tatanora

It was previously a freighter but it kept getting motes.

[Jeycht]

That's all about rng.
With any airship comp sometimes I obtain tons of materias (and items) or nothing.
2 last times on sector 13 (and 17 I think): first time 0 materia and some cristals/useless items, second time ~20 materias and a lot of valuable items.

btw I never get any mote.

[Taross]

Not sure if this is added yet, but our FC airship discovered an alternate Diadem (hard) route in Sector 17.

[LionFranco]

So my FC was able to get a large house(we luckily got one before the auto demolition on Xmas), so we had to start all over from scratch with our Airships, etc. I've literally been trying to unlock sectors 13 and 14 for weeks now, and no luck. I've got both airships going to sector 11 and only sector 11, one air ship is at 104 surveilance, and other is at 90.

Has anyone went so long without getting sectors 13 and 14 unlocked?

[Alice_89th]

Has anyone went so long without getting sectors 13 and 14 unlocked?

It took us a lot of trips as well, same for unlocking diadem (for which we even had 3 ships to try with).
I can't say for sure how many weeks it cost us, but at least two and probably three.

[Susurrus]

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone in this thread figuring out how the airships work and which sections have which items and what not. Sadly I can't provide feedback from my own airships as my main char is banned from forums but since I have this account from the Humble Bundle I thought I'd come and say thanks <3

[AkashiXI]

Hey all! I have a few questions, I'm really hoping I can find an answer here, as I've searched and searched, and can't find a proper answer. I apologize if this has been answered before, but I have a Free Company who's itching to be future proof for 3.2+ content .

Right now my Free Company is using one airship for endgame content, and it's the Mostly Invincible Build (Hull: Invincible II, Rig: Enterprise, Fore and Aftcastle: Invincible II), and we have still not gotten Hard Mode Diadem. What's even worse is that we've been stuck on Sector 20 for almost a month now .-.;. My question is: should we invest in another airship with higher Surveillance, or is it all RNG? Also, can I survey multiple sectors (19-20 mainly) to increase my chances of unlocking Diadem HM, while also retaining the chance of unlocking Sector 21? At this point we believe there's some voodoo magic that can help us, so we're only taking it to sector 20 in hopes of unlocking 21 <_<. Thanks to anyone with a proper response! Much love, and amazing guide!

[Jeykama]

My question is: should we invest in another airship with higher Surveillance, or is it all RNG? Also, can I survey multiple sectors (19-20 mainly) to increase my chances of unlocking Diadem HM, while also retaining the chance of unlocking Sector 21? At this point we believe there's some voodoo magic that can help us, so we're only taking it to sector 20 in hopes of unlocking 21 <_<.

It's all RNG, there's no proof (or any correlation really) that higher surveillance unlocks sectors more easily. Just have surveillance to 90+ and hit up all the sectors known to unlock Diadem (17-22 I think?) while also working on 21/22. With the higher level sectors it is definitely worth the extra time to downgrade your rig and upgrade everything else to hit as many bigboy sectors possible due to the minimum travel time.