Airship Guide

[Nyalia]

I haven't done the calculations yet, but it always seemed to me that the later sectors have a better chance at rarer items than the earlier ones, and that you got more items from later sectors than earlier ones. Far Eastern Coins are found in a really early sector, and a rather late-game sector, so it's not surprising they're pretty rare. They also don't drop from the endgame sectors (17-22), only iron giant cores and toy box schemas drop in those.

[ServerCollaps]

I've 3 lvl 50 airships now which made 100+ flights together and I got 2 rare items during all these flights... 1 time the toy box crap and 1 time the mog stuff

I would call the "rare" suff rare :s

[Nyalia]

I've 3 lvl 50 airships now which made 100+ flights together and I got 2 rare items during all these flights... 1 time the toy box crap and 1 time the mog stuff

I would call the "rare" suff rare :s

Whereas I'm running a 50, 42, 18, and 8 and have gotten 3x Iron Giant Cores, 5x Shrub Seedlings, 20x Toy Box Schema, 10x Fine Alumen, and 4x Dusk Leather if that counts. The only item we haven't gotten is the Far Eastern Coins. Sure, the rare items aren't common, but they're not as rare as rare minions, I don't think.

[Nyalia]

Okay, according to our data, the super rare items have an observed drop rate of 1% in 1* sectors, 2.5% in 2* sectors, 3.5% in 3* and 4* sectors, and 4.5% in 5* sectors. Overall, the drop rate is ~2.3%. This is ignoring other factors, such as ship stats. The total sample size for the data is 3,000 item retrievals, but the data clusters at the start, so the data for the later areas is less good.

Observed drop rates:

	Schmtc / Spcl	FC Craft Mat	Unique Craf Mat	Gen Craft Mat	Materia		Crystal		Total
	-------------	------------	---------------	-------------	-------		-------		-----
 All	783 (26.6%)	741 (25.2%)	67 (2.3%)	212 (7.2%)	481 (16.3%)	659 (22.4%)	2943
-----	-------------	------------	---------------	-------------	-------		-------		-----
01-16	753 (26.9%)	693 (24.7%)	61 (2.2%)	200 (7.1%)	437 (15.6%)	659 (23.5%)	2803
17-22	30 (21.4%)	48 (34.3%)	6 (4.3%)	12 (8.6%)	44 (31.4%)	0 (0.0%)	140
-----	-------------	------------	---------------	-------------	-------		-------		-----
01-05	291 (24.8%)	312 (26.6%)	13 (1.1%)	75 (6.4%)	174 (14.8%)	308 (26.3%)	1173
06-08	201 (28.4%)	166 (23.5%)	18 (2.5%)	43 (6.1%)	112 (15.8%)	167 (23.6%)	707
09-11	156 (28.5%)	126 (23.0%)	19 (3.5%)	43 (7.8%)	82 (15.0%)	122 (22.3%)	548
12-14	73 (26.3%)	67 (24.1%)	10 (3.6%)	23 (8.3%)	52 (18.7%)	53 (19.1%)	278
15-16	32 (33.0%)	22 (22.7%)	1 (1.0%)	16 (16.5%)	17 (17.5%)	9 (9.3%)	97
17-22	30 (21.4%)	48 (34.3%)	6 (4.3%)	12 (8.6%)	44 (31.4%)	0 (0.0%)	140

[jnseagul]

I suppose I may just getting lucky with my explorations, but ever since I added the Tatanora aft or forecastle to my 2 lvl 50 airships, I've seemingly been bringing back a lot of the rarer items. It'll be interesting to see how favor, retrieval and/or surveillance correlate with the rare item return, both in rate and in number.

[Wizel]

What do you guys think of these designs? Been playing with the builder a bit, our FC only has 2 airships atm but I am planning for the future at level 50.

Invincible Hull, Bronco Rigging, Tatanora Fore/Aft Castle
Surveillance 120, Retrieval 140, Speed 50, Range 84, Favor 136

Or replace the hull and aftcastle with Enterprise and Odyssey
Surveillance 124, Retrieval 126, Speed 54, Range 98, Favor 132

[Nyalia]

What do you guys think of these designs? Been playing with the builder a bit, our FC only has 2 airships atm but I am planning for the future at level 50.

Invincible Hull, Bronco Rigging, Tatanora Fore/Aft Castle
Surveillance 120, Retrieval 140, Speed 50, Range 84, Favor 136

Or replace the hull and aftcastle with Enterprise and Odyssey
Surveillance 124, Retrieval 126, Speed 54, Range 98, Favor 132

Well, there's a reason those are the first two ships I list in my ship designs part of the guide xD Those are both solid. I think I prefer the latter one though since you can hit more sectors in one trip. It helps offset the slowness by reducing overall travel times.

[Wizel]

Oops I must have glanced over your design section and didn't see them, heh sorry.

[Nyalia]

Oops I must have glanced over your design section and didn't see them, heh sorry.

Nono, I was just saying that I totally agree with you that those are great ship designs. I wasn't the first one to post one of them - someone else did earlier in this thread, and I realized they were right that bronco rigging is a good idea.

[Xenora]

Only seen this happen 1 other time on the thread so figured I would share this one!



Airship was using the following:

Hull - Invincible II
Rigging - Bronco
Forecastle - Invincible II
Aftcastle - Invincible II

Just sent it on a single venture to Sector 16 (17 has been very stubborn for this FC...)

Ironically I had only switched rigging to Bronco for this single venture so I could swap parts with the 3rd airship when it returned... now I'm debating removing the Bronco haha.

I'm kind of a unique case having 27 airships (11 of which are Rank 50). Thus far this is the first SS rank I have seen. The Bronco Rigging definitely seems to be a great way to achieve SS.