Quote Originally Posted by Arcticharm View Post
Sorry to hear that! We personally had the same result last night, we had sent out to only sector 5 to try to discover 7 but were unsuccessful. We got a substandard rating which I think I’ve seen other people get AND still discover areas. Upon closer review the line about violent turbulence says “Airship surveillance levels unaffected, but EXPLORATORY CAPABILITIES may be significantly hindered.” so maybe that has something to do with it. We sent it back out on the route to 5 -> 6 so I'll know some more this evening. We haven't been able to complete our invincible forecastle yet but I'm thinking that we might need to lean hard on it and get it done just to advance :-/ Banzai, we may have found one of the walls Will keep updating with findings.

Looking at the spreadsheet, it appears that all entries that have found new sectors (so far) have mostly had satisfactory end results(except possibly line 5) from the Sector of interest AND have seen violent and high winds, with high winds being the 2nd entry before discovery of the new sector, so perhaps slight hindrance still allows for discovery of new sectors while significant hindrance does not?
That trip of mine to sector 05, unlocking 06, is really working against the turbulence theory. I had violent turbulence, but still found 06 on my first attempt.

What I think will really help crack the unlock conditions is to include a new column in the spreadsheet where people can list what sectors they have already discovered. Just don't list 01 and 02 - we start with those unlocked, so those aren't interesting. (Err, you do start with 02 unlocked, right? <_< I didn't send our ship out the first time, so I just realized I'm not actually sure about that!) Please either fill this new column out completely or leave it blank - don't put in some sectors but not others, it'll skew the data. With this extra information, we should be able to tell if RNG is involved, or if it's just a function of surveillance, rating, and/or wind.