Airship Guide

[Bloody]

We have noticed no difference in quality gains between using HQ and NQ items. We've had 90/100 from all NQ, and we've had 20/100 from all HQ. It's very, very random, and there's no indication that HQ affects quality gains.

I believe HQ just gives you double experience, just like all turn-ins. Now, if only the exp gains weren't trivial... double nearly nothing is still nearly nothing. I used to try to give mats to lower level crafters so they could get experience from the turn-ins, but then I looked at the numbers, and there's just no reason to bother.

Lower-level crafters will get a lot more experience than high-level crafters. Where as most turn ins show me anything from a few hundred to a few thousand exp (lol) my FC mates report exp gains of 10-20k which is still small but 10 times the amount I see as a reward, so it has something to do with craft vs recipe levels for sure. Also my results are the same in terms of NQ vs HQ. I've honestly had more luck with NQ stuff giving good quality gains which is quite sad. I've also never seen extra quality from HQ vs NQ, but I have not done a significant amount of testing on it because well, there is no auto-HQ quick synth =P

[Magistrella]

Just send the airship on sector 14 but it didn't unlocked airship 3...

Is that normal ?

Or at list i didn't see the message in the log...

See the Airship as another sector unlock - you might get it but you probably wont on your first try (except if youre lucky) :x

[LilPhist]

I can confirm the following:

Our ship was outfitted with Invincible II Hull, Enterprise Rigging, Odyssey Forecastle, Enterprise Aftcastle for these trips. I fully repair the ship before every trip.

Our first visit to sector 12 at rank 48 resulted in the discovery of sector 16.

Our first visit to both sectors 15 and 16 (same trip) at rank 49 resulted in the discovery of sectors 19 and 17.

Our ship is currently exploring both sectors 19 and 17. We are hoping for the discovery of both sectors 20 and 18 tomorrow if we are lucky. I will report back.

I discovered sector 20 from the above trip, but not 18. So first time exploration of sectors 12, 15, 16, and 19 resulted in discovering their locked sectors. New flight of 17, 20, & 19 with a flight time of 81 hrs, 9 mins. Hope to get both 18 and 21 unlocked this run.

[Nyalia]

Lower-level crafters will get a lot more experience than high-level crafters. Where as most turn ins show me anything from a few hundred to a few thousand exp (lol) my FC mates report exp gains of 10-20k which is still small but 10 times the amount I see as a reward, so it has something to do with craft vs recipe levels for sure. Also my results are the same in terms of NQ vs HQ. I've honestly had more luck with NQ stuff giving good quality gains which is quite sad. I've also never seen extra quality from HQ vs NQ, but I have not done a significant amount of testing on it because well, there is no auto-HQ quick synth =P

Oh! That's really good to know. I just assumed everyone got the same amount, and all the numbers were in the hundreds for me. Thanks for letting me know that lower level crafters get more for some reason, unlike all other turnins xD

[Mholito]

Oh! That's really good to know. I just assumed everyone got the same amount, and all the numbers were in the hundreds for me. Thanks for letting me know that lower level crafters get more for some reason, unlike all other turnins xD

I think the xp shown is xp per item delivered, not per turn-in. I noticed that I got around 9 times the xp shown when I did a turn-in of 6 items with 50% rested bonus.

[ToukaDouka]

I really love this guide! Thanks for all the hard work putting it together. I don't know if its been reported yet but I got Far Eastern Coins from sector 16

[Hamada]

i also go ta Far Eastern Coin from sector 3

[Nyalia]

Aha! So that's the rare from sector 03! That's been a giant hole in the spreadsheet for a while. Thanks!

[Nyalia]

Hmm. I'm starting to think that after a certain point (SC16), all sectors gain "Dusk Leather" in the "Schematic Material" slot. The last schematic material obtained is Empty Cluster, and that's only been found so far in SC16. Dusk Leather has been found in 17, 18, 19, and 21 so far. Dusk Leather definitely doesn't occupy the "unique crafting" slot (housing/minion stuff) since the other unique materials do appear in 17-21 (Toy Box Schema in 17 and 21, Iron Giant Core in 20). So far, each sector has had a single item in each of the four crafting-related categories (general crafting, unique crafting, FC crafting, schematics), but there are only so many schematic items.

Also, so far, only one sector has dropped more than 2 types of Materia (SC07 with all three Grade 3 crafting materia). All the other sectors only drop two different types (though any that drop a IV can drop the III of that type as well). Each sector also has only 2 types of crystals, with some one-off outliers that might be typos (wind and water crystals are easy to mix up due to Google Doc's autocorrect, and Ice and Water share an icon).

Oddly, exactly zero trips to SC18 have been recorded... We have plenty from 01 to 21, except nothing from 18.

[Aeyis]

Just send the airship on sector 14 but it didn't unlocked airship 3...

Is that normal ?

Or at list i didn't see the message in the log...

Sometimes it doesnt show in the log. Finally discovered another sector, but it didnt show in the log for some reason. Also a bit funny is that our second airship seems to have been the one to discover it.

Yeah. So far behind the second airship is discovering sectors, lol.

I discovered sector 20 from the above trip, but not 18. So first time exploration of sectors 12, 15, 16, and 19 resulted in discovering their locked sectors. New flight of 17, 20, & 19 with a flight time of 81 hrs, 9 mins. Hope to get both 18 and 21 unlocked this run.

That means you were super lucky. I've done 10~ trips to sector 11 and only just now did one of the two sectors unlock from there. 4 trips to sector 12 so far without result.