Airship Guide

[Nyalia]

Bonzai - I edited my first post in this thread with some info. I'll add more later, like ship suggestions.

Also, I've noticed a minor correlation between Survey and second items, but also a minor correlation between sector number and second items, which makes sense. However, it also makes the data hard to gather because as your Survey gets higher, you tend to hit later sectors, flattening out the effects of either change. Also, the Survey requirement of 90 for the later sectors forces the range of values into a smaller band. Also, the all-or-nothing nature of this further obfuscates the data.

I guess we're going to have to, at some point, run a bunch of trips with a ship that has 50 survey and a ship that has 150 survey in some pre-17 sector.

[BonzaiFerroni]

Bonzai - I edited my first post in this thread with some info. I'll add more later, like ship suggestions.

I guess we're going to have to, at some point, run a bunch of trips with a ship that has 50 survey and a ship that has 150 survey in some pre-17 sector.

Looking forward to reading it! \o/ Sent you an email!

As your Airship moves away from the direct travel 'centerline' shown in black, your overall travel efficiency drops and you end up taking more time / Range to complete the trip! This can be really important if you're trying to make a lot of stops, but usually isn't a big worry if you're just visiting 1-2

Wow XD Thank you for the illustration, that really helps! I've added this to the "quick tips" section of the guide. And please share any other insights you and your team come across, it is really great stuff =)

[Magistrella]

I guess we're going to have to, at some point, run a bunch of trips with a ship that has 50 survey and a ship that has 150 survey in some pre-17 sector.

Well, just look at the Odysseus Logs - up until 2 days ago she was floating 1-7 with all bronco (70 all). Then i replaced the Forecastle and she went to 98 Survey/Favor Rest 70.

Right after the Swap she got the two full 6 item 3-Sector trips. So Before: 14 Trips with never getting 2 items in all Sectors After: 2 Trips in succession with 6 items from 3 sectors.

I know, still not enough data to conclude anything - she's otw to another 3 SC trip as i type and if she comes back with 6 items again i might start theorizing again what Surveillance and Favor actually do ^^