Quote Originally Posted by Arcticharm View Post
Seriously, we just got our ship back again from another solo SC07 run with nothing to show for it. This has got to be our 5th or 6th run to the sector with no sign of SC08. Definitely getting frustrated. We're using a full invincible build and I know a number of people have said they had enterprise parts by now so perhaps it's not safe to scrap the ship stat theory.
RNG is massive here. We did a couple solo runs of 07 will full invincible, and just unlocked it. We changed nothing. It's just luck.

I'm getting a bit discouraged by ship stats... I just did a weather vs Favor analysis, and it suggests that there's no correlation. With the two favor stats that we have over 100 data points for, it's exactly 10% no wind, 30% high wind, and 60% turbulence, for both 70 favor and 80 favor. That's across all sectors - the per sector per favor stat breakdown doesn't have enough datapoints, but looks like it'll converge on this 10/30/60 split.

On the "plus" side, I can't find a correlation between weather condition and retrieval rating (normal/high/optimal) either, so... I don't know if weather actually affects anything either.

I think Favor might be the chances of getting a "rare" item, but that's hard to datamine because of the issue mentioned above about how I wasn't clear what the "HQ" column meant, so I don't know how reliable the data is for that


I suppose the next thing to do is to analyze overall sector ratings with stats, or performance, or weather. I just don't know where to start there - there are just so many variables!



I changed the title of the sector unlock cell to be general notes about the run. In addition to unlocks, it would be nice to have the trip times if you know them so I can quickly map out the speed/distance/time formula. I'm curious about it.

Thanks to everyone who contributed for all the data! We have 163 trips logged so far and 26 ships (18 FCs) in our database. Keep it coming!