Airship Guide

[Nyalia]

Could you also check to see of those voyages if the final sector in each is the highest numbered (or at least highest difficulty)?
I don't know about others, but the final sector for most of my voyages tends to be the most difficult, highest numbered, or furthest away, as that decreases the travel time significantly (or allows for that 1 extra trip to a sector) so I was wondering if that (as far as sector difficulty being the final sector, and thus determining the letter grade) might have something to do with it as well.

I looked at those too - far, far weaker correlations.

Here's the chart for highest rating:

		C	B	A	S	SS
Abysmal		35	38	1	0	0
Substandard	38	135	19	0	0
Satisfactory	59	97	192	14	0
Decent		5	9	7	33	0
Outstanding	0	1	0	1	0

As you can see, there's practically no correlation for C ratings, weaker correlation for B, and about the same for A and S.

I didn't code the analysis for highest rated sector, but a spot check shows low correlation. Of course there'll be some, since the last sector is often the highest rated, but in the cases where the last sector wasn't the highest rated, the ratings are all over the place for a given grade. Looking at just the B grade runs where the highest numbered sector was not the final sector, the ratings for that sector vary from Abysmal to Satisfactory, with Abysmal being the most common, and Substandard and Satisfactory being pretty close.

Here are a few with non-terminal highest rated sectors, taken arbitrarily from the middle of the list:

B	SC05	Decent		SC02	Satisfactory	SC04	Abysmal
B	SC06	Substandard	SC11	Satisfactory	SC09	Substandard
B	SC10	Abysmal		SC07	Substandard	SC08	Abysmal
B	SC11	Abysmal		SC06	Substandard		
B	SC07	Substandard	SC08	Abysmal		SC05	Substandard
B	SC08	Abysmal		SC07	Substandard	SC06	Substandard
B	SC12	Satisfactory	SC10	Satisfactory	SC08	Substandard
B	SC11	Satisfactory	SC13	Abysmal		SC09	Substandard
B	SC11	Substandard	SC13	Abysmal		SC09	Substandard		
B	SC14	Substandard	SC11	Abysmal		SC13	Satisfactory	SC09	Substandard