Submersible Information Thread

[AuricSeagard]

At the moment I’m not too worried about sub builds insomuch as I am about unlocking sectors and ranking up our sub fleet. We have all sectors through Cobalt Shoals unlocked, save for Offender’s Rot, which finally leads me to my question: is exploring and unlocking sectors purely RNG dependent, or is there a threshold stat I need to be meeting? If so, which stat? After I got Cobalt Shoals unlocked early last week, I haven’t had any luck unlocking a new sector!

For unlocking sectors, emphasize surveillance and speed so you can hit the unlocking sectors as often as possible. Since it is ultimately RNG-based, you want as many rolls as you can get in the least amount of time, so you might want to build a "Scout sub" specialized for sector finding. Favor might help but we have no solid evidence on that either way. Couldn't hurt though. Send your scout sub straight to each unlocking sector and straight home again as fast as possible; get your turnaround time down to once per day or less.

[Leira]

I've just gotten "Kamacite Ore" from Flickering Dip with only 120 Surveillance. I believe the consensus before was you needed 135 minimum? This may change things.

[Ramesses]

I've just gotten "Kamacite Ore" from Flickering Dip with only 120 Surveillance. I believe the consensus before was you needed 135 minimum? This may change things.

Great... thank you for sharing this. I had been testing a couple things on my alt character.

[duckdynasty]

I've just gotten "Kamacite Ore" from Flickering Dip with only 120 Surveillance. I believe the consensus before was you needed 135 minimum? This may change things.

Am I the only one that finds it very disturbing that even with 105 retrieval, that sub is STILL getting the message "Poor retrieval levels result in disappointing yield."

[DrWho2010]

usually higher surveillance will get you new sector unlocks but ultimately it is rng.

[Dranyari]

usually higher surveillance will get you new sector unlocks but ultimately it is rng.

Well, I'll keep throwing my subs at the Umbrella Narrow and the Unidentified Derelict then and badger the rest of the FC into mats gathering. Thank you!

[LycelleD]

CSySySy is build, finally got us an otter! ship was fully repaired before sending

[T_Moon]

I have been testing out for the last 2 weeks and right now I am of the opinion that C,C,Sly,C an ideal build for otter Farming.

With the 80 speed a mission to and from sector 7 is just over 1 day 6 hrs, and the 140 luck is giving 2 loot rolls every mission. My other two subs have been using a
C, Sly, C, Sly for a Higher exploration of 180 but the lower Favor of 90 rarely results in a second loot roll, and mission time is extended to 1 day 21 hours.

Aside from the RNG gate that is weather, the double roll and short mission time seems to put the C,C,Sly,C build as almost ideal.

Does this match up with other peoples general ideas on how these subs act?

[AerisVII]

I wanted to ask if a C,U,U,C build has been tested for Otter farming? I have sent these build ones to sector 7 and I can say that 110 favor will do for 2 trys but I'm not sure if 30 retrieval is sufficient.

[yosment]

I wanted to ask if a C,U,U,C build has been tested for Otter farming? I have sent these build ones to sector 7 and I can say that 110 favor will do for 2 trys but I'm not sure if 30 retrieval is sufficient.

Someone just advised me the following: "So go for a high surveillance and favor for best results. You won't need to worry about retrieval as all that seems to do is increase the size of the stack of items you get, and rare drops don't stack -- in general you just get one of those at a time no matter how high or low your retrieval is, so you're not going to get a stack of 10 Abroader Otters no matter what. Take enough range to get to your desired sector(s) and consider speed to be your second dump stat after retrieval."

So if you aim at rare items, retrieval might not be helpful. And I am tempted to di C U U S build. But I see your CUUC build's point as well. Using the C instead of S for the bridge can give 110 speed instead of 70 speed from CUUS. And the loss in favor is only 10, 110 for CUUC compared with CUUS' 120.