Quote Originally Posted by super_aardvark View Post
We collected two items from every sector, which is quite extraordinary for this airship. What changed? We replaced the Bronco hull and aftcastle with Invincible hull and Enterprise Aftcastle, reducing Surveillance and Favor.
If I recall correctly, you already had an enterprise forecastle, is that right? So it still doesn't quite go against the popular notion that the forecastle is important.

If simply the overall grade of your parts is a factor (in either the sector unlock or the 2nd item question)... well that would be fairly convoluted, I would hope SE wouldn't make it so weird to have a "hidden" stat like this. XD Still, lets keep it on the list of hypotheses to test when we have enough data! I think it still is reasonable to think that RNG plays some role in addition to whatever else, so that might also explain your results.

Once we have a sector with enough data points, and enough people who have various levels of forecastle, we can test the "surveillance improves the odds of finding a 2nd item" hypothesis! \o/