Submersible Information Thread

[Dustytome]

Why wouldn't it be a good idea to use every whale part ?

Unlike airship parts, submersible parts jumble the stats between teirs and the whale parts combined have extremely low surveillance which you need a higher amount of if you want a chance at the rarer items (pets, music sheets, rare materials).

i don't think the capacity is there for a submarine to be comprised of all whale parts. you have to mix and match some pieces.

Should be just under the limit if you really wanted to go all whale, but unless you want to be swimming in materials that have been around since HW there's not much point to it.

[DrWho2010]

i don't think the capacity is there for a submarine to be comprised of all whale parts. you have to mix and match some pieces.

[Ludovik]

Which is really quite sad, some of the airship models are very pretty when you build the entire ship - but they are quite bad when built that way it would seem. So until we get airship and submarine "glamours" we will have to settle for the model ones

[Frysia]

What is the suggested setups for rare items? I've been running 115/55/45/130/70 for a couple weeks now and I've yet to get any rare items or get anything over a C rating. Is it suggested to only send to one location at a time or multiple?

[Dustytome]

What is the suggested setups for rare items? I've been running 115/55/45/130/70 for a couple weeks now and I've yet to get any rare items or get anything over a C rating. Is it suggested to only send to one location at a time or multiple?

Send to multiple locations and make sure to keep up with repairs if the parts are getting low. I may just be paranoid, but I seem to have horrible drops if any of the parts end up depleted by the end of a voyage.

[QueenSophie]

Send to multiple locations and make sure to keep up with repairs if the parts are getting low. I may just be paranoid, but I seem to have horrible drops if any of the parts end up depleted by the end of a voyage.

I don't think the part wear matters at all, in my experience. I have over 30 vessels, and 5 are subs with the good builds for the rare items, and I get Marine Wax Esters, Colossus Slabs, Auriea Polyps, Abyss scrolls etc. whether parts are fulling repaired or depleted after a mission. I dont repair til they are damaged, cause you can send them out as long as they arent damaged, no matter how low the bars are. This way you get your most bang for your buck. I understand what you are saying, but I don't see it reflecting item RNG at all.

[Angevin]

I don't think the part wear matters at all, in my experience. I have over 30 vessels, and 5 are subs with the good builds for the rare items, and I get Marine Wax Esters, Colossus Slabs, Auriea Polyps, Abyss scrolls etc. whether parts are fulling repaired or depleted after a mission. I dont repair til they are damaged, cause you can send them out as long as they arent damaged, no matter how low the bars are. This way you get your most bang for your buck. I understand what you are saying, but I don't see it reflecting item RNG at all.

Can you recommend a good build? Right now I have two rank 30 ships and all 3 tiers of parts built. I'd like to be able to mix and match the parts that I have between the two subs for max benefit until I can build enough optimum build parts. Which leads me to my next question: what is the the current optimum build?

Thanks!

[DrWho2010]

a lot of rare item acquisition is rng dependent on the weather/turbulence conditions when your sub reaches the sector. For example for Colossus Slabs, you hopefully should get one if the report said the seas were clear and calm.

[geekgirl101]

btw I've been trying to conjure up certain builds that don't overlap parts and was wondering what you guys think of these 3:

100,90,30,115,65 (Unkiu, Whale, Shark, Shark)
45,75,125,85,75 (Shark, Shark, Unkiu, Unkiu)
25,140,70,120,100 (Whale ,Unkiu, Whale, Whale)

[Alien_Gamer]

I assume the first stat listed is surveillance? If so the second two set ups may not be worthwhile after the next set of nodes is released. I'm expecting a min surveillance requirement similar to airships.
Surveillance is also your chance of discovering items so a low surveillance seems like it would be self defeating; no point going anywhere if you can't see anything to get.