Airship Guide

[BonzaiFerroni]

So, I've realized that I made a small mistake in the spreadsheet. I listed a column for "HQ?" for each item, but when I did, I hadn't realized that SE re-used the term to mean two different things. When you get an item, sometimes it says "High quality _____ discovered." Other times, it's just "_____ discovered." I thought that it was linked to the HQ/NQ status of the item itself, but that appears not to be the case. It turns out that when it says "High Quality," the item can be NQ. And, when it doesn't, the item can be HQ. The two terms seem to be unrelated?

I'm thinking now that the reported status is like, "is this a rare item?" Toy Box Schema are always "High Quality" even though they are always NQ items (there's no HQ version). I imagine the same is true for Iron Giant Cores and other such rare housing/minion items.

Some people did try to report both in the spreadsheet, but when I went through and cleared it up to make all the item names consistent, this information was lost. Really, I should have had two columns for the HQ status - one for the reported status, one for the item's status.

Going forward, how should we handle this? Should we continue ignoring the HQ/NQ status of the item and only track the "High Quality" keyword in the reports, or should we enter a new column to track both and just deal with the fact that the older log entries lack this data?


Also, I've sorted the logs by ship in the Master Voyage Log. It's interesting to follow a ship's progress and see how different sectors compare. I think the next change to the sheet that I'll do is create a new tab that compares the affects of ship stats on voyages to a given sector. Stuff that looks at, like, favor ratings and compares them to weather to see if there's a correlation. I'm just not sure yet how to set up that data...

I had noticed that same thing, in this case "high-quality" means rare, not HQ. In the HQ? column I've been putting rarity and when an item is actually HQ i've been indicating it thus in the item column by putting something like "Vivianite HQ". I think the more important data is rarity (which actually has three levels, none, high-quality, and several high-quality), so my inclination is to keep that column and perhaps add that extra level.

I noticed for many of the other reports they seem to be reporting rarity as well, at least the items that are "rare" have that indication consistently. I have this distinction in the original post so I believe a good many people have been entering it that way. The nice thing is, it is very consistent which items are rare, so we don't have to consider the previous data unusable on that type of analysis. For example, If we have to we can find all the Vivianite and make sure it is indicated as "rare."

I'll copy/paste an excerpt from the OP in case it helps:

High-quality deep green crystals discovered. Commencing extraction.

Some items appear to be more rare than others. This line tells you whether that is the case. The chances may be influenced by a specific stat (surveillance, favor). Possible conditions:
_______________ discovered.
High-quality _____________ discovered.
Several high-quality _____________ discovered.

As for the ship roster, I can't wait to see what you come up with! \o/