Airship Guide

[IrealiTY]

Did anyone fiddle around with new "best in slot" ships using the new parts?

[ConflictedMind]

is there any change in the amount of surveillance you need for the new sectors?

[Jielimi]

Sorry to disappoint, if someone else wants to take up the mantle I'm sure we'd be happy to have fresh volunteers

I'd be happy to take up the mantle! I can create a Google docs spreadsheet and make it available for everybody to see and update it with everybody's input. If you don't mind me taking and using what you've started as it's base. Let me know!

I'm not sure what the easiest way to do it is, through the forum our via email. Either way works.

[Alistaire]

is there any change in the amount of surveillance you need for the new sectors?

Not for #24 at least. Imagine not for the others as well.

[TitaniaYaerem]

Our airship brought back Grade V Mind from Sector 21



>>>EDIT: After I had finalized the mission, Sector 23 was discovered<<<

[Ilmoran]

Did anyone fiddle around with new "best in slot" ships using the new parts?

Personally, without an increase in airframe capacity, the new parts don't do much for me. They follow the same cost/upgrade pattern as the previous tiers, and using a single one will cost more than half your airframe capacity. IMO, the only airship design that should consider using one would be a re-design of an airship already using Tatanora class component(s).

(Components listed as: Hull/Rigging/Fore/Aft)
(Stats listed as: Surveillance/Retrieval/Speed/Range/Favor)
So: Frugal Freighter (Invincible/Bronco/Tatanora/Tatanora)(120/140/50/84/136) - Must downgrade a Tatanora to Odyssey in order to upgrade the other Tatanora to Viltgance.

Option 1: Invincible/Bronco/Odyssey/Viltgance - 102/154/46/84/122 - Even slower, more retrieval but less Surveillance and Favor. Maybe good if you want to gather a ton of stuff, but loooong trips.
Option 2: Invincible/Bronco/Viltgance/Odyssey - 138/126/54/84/150 - More Surveillance and Favor, less Retrieval, slightly faster. Maybe better chance for good items, but less items at a time?

Frugal Flier: Enterprise/Bronco/Odyssey/Tatanora (106/140/50/98/118) - Downgrading the hull just puts you in Option 1 of Frugal Freighter modification, so must downgrade the forecastle further.

Enterprise/Bronco/Invincible II/Viltgance - 88/154/46/98/104 - Surveillance below 90 makes this a no-go, imo.

Fortune Seeker: Invincible/Invincible/Tatanora/Odyssey - 124/122/68/80/136 - For the sake of argument, I will assume keeping the Odyssey Aftcastle is desirable. Therefore, one of the hull or rigging must be lowered. Dropping the rigging brings us back to Frugal Flier option 2 again, so we have:

Bronco/Invincible/Viltgance/Odyssey - 138/122/68/66/154 - Great stats for collecting, but with a 66 Range, very limited options for destinations (I think it can still hit everything, and a few 2-sector, but not many). Still might be a good upgrade option.

Eager Explorer: Enterprise/Tatanora/Enterprise/Enterprise - 90/78/132/78/90 - Need to keep the Forecastle or we no longer meet 90 surveilance.

Option 1: Invincible/Viltgance/Enterprise/Enterprise - 90/74/146/60/94 - Faster, slightly less retrieval, can't go as far. As long as it can still reach ever sector (not sure if it can), it fits with the purpose of the Eager Explorer pretty well.
Option 2: Enterprise/Viltgance/Enterprise/Invincible - 94/60/150/74/90 - Even faster, even less retrieval, less range penalty vs option 1. I think this is probably the best thematic upgrade of all the options in this post.

Since the only Tatanora-using airship I use is a Frugal Freighter, for me, Viltgance changes nothing.

[LionFranco]

Does anyone have any good airship builds that are good for collecting gathering/crafting materia?

[Stetak]

I found 1 dinosaur fossil in specter 15.

[Tahri]

Dexterity Materia V obtained from sector 20:

[Khanscott]

Piety V from Sector 19.