Wedding Cruise - April 7, 2017

[chrissydid]

Thanks for the updates Rynetory! It will be interesting to see how two recipes with one drop 'item' will work. I ended up buying an extra gem stove b/c I wasn't able to make recipes fast enough for my collection of items on that stove. (Still haven't bought that third gem stove that only has one recipe)

[Rynetory2]

Thanks for the updates Rynetory! It will be interesting to see how two recipes with one drop 'item' will work. I ended up buying an extra gem stove b/c I wasn't able to make recipes fast enough for my collection of items on that stove. (Still haven't bought that third gem stove that only has one recipe)

More brides mean more drops, that will keep your stoves busy and more gems too.

[chrissydid]

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[Lazureus]

Is there a reason why this particular cruise seems extremely underwhelming?

Nearly two months ago, our last cruise had:

a) A temporary recipe you could easily 3 star with some effort. (Beignets)
b) A permanent normal recipe if you completed a secondary cruise quest. (Cajun Shrimp)
c) A jubilee recipe given by the unlocked NPC (Karmen)
d) Karmen shows up every 4 hours, and drops only 1 fruit.. but sometimes if lucky.. 5.
e) Tropical Tart requires only 4 tropical fruit, and gives 2000 coins and a gem. It only takes 2 hours to make, too.

New cruise after all this long time of waiting, we get:
a) Just Breanna the Bride and her recipe Wedding Cake Slice.
b) She shows up every 4+ hours, dropping just 1 bouquet (so far).
c) Wedding Slices requires _SIX_ of that bouquet, instead of four that the tart does. However, it only gives 800 coins, and takes _THREE_ hours to make.
d) NO temporary or unlockable normal recipe, no secondary quest.

Ok so, not only did we get far less out of this cruise (after waiting nearly two months since the last one...), the one thing we do get (Wedding Slices), is far far weaker than the Tropical Tart. Not only needs MORE of the 4-hourly resources, but gives far less gold to boot! After going through all this trouble for the cruise, we get a much weaker reward than the previous cruise out of it? It's like this cruise was worth far less for no good reason, there is no counterbalance for the poor end result here.

Oh and Breanna is invisible currently, so I don't even get to see her walk in and sit down and do her thing. I can still collect the bouquet from her empty seat, though.

[chrissydid]

The first cruise I ever completed I won Timmy the Turkey, who granted is hilarious in a giant turkey costume, but:

he comes on the 4+hour cycle
he almost always drops one pumpkin
it takes 4 pumpkins for a recipe, that also includes 2 sugar, 3 flour, and 2 cream (all the most needed ingredients for gems in one recipe)
the recipe takes 6 hours to cook
and only earns 650 coins at 325 servings

Basically, terrible. I have 242 pumpkins in my pantry because it is such a pain to cook, despite having played for 564 days.

[Lazureus]

I wonder why the cruise rewards are so unbalanced. All cruises take the same amount of effort, materials, time, (and real money .. if you buy the caterers and the slot, or have to fast-finish things due to time constraints). They should all have comparable rewards. These recipes are extremely weak for the work you have to put in to get them. So I guess Karmen is going to be the only good one? I may as well not spend any effort or money on any future cruises, because ... what if they end up being a waste too?

I feel like I wasted my money buying the slot and the caterers for a cruise that ended up with a horrible reward! The only good thing I get out of this is that Breanna is a really pretty NPC to come visit every so often.

[Ninjalino]

My first cruise so pardon but why does it say the cruise is departing in 31 hours but Briana the bride still shows 8 days? What is the difference?

[JustKay]

My first cruise so pardon but why does it say the cruise is departing in 31 hours but Briana the bride still shows 8 days? What is the difference?

You can start the cruise tasks a few days later than others. You get to choose when until it auto-starts. This means you can avoid a busy life period, or try to guess and start cooking up stuff for the cruise in advance. The requirements for the last prize is very hard to cook up in one day. As such your prize/goal line will last 10 days, but the "event will actually be available for 15 or more days. Some people will start early and finish on the 10th day, while others will start ~5 days later and finish on the 15th day. (numbers may vary)

[JustKay]

Is there a reason why this particular cruise seems extremely underwhelming?

Oh and Breanna is invisible currently, so I don't even get to see her walk in and sit down and do her thing. I can still collect the bouquet from her empty seat, though.

They're definitely trying to run a leaner ship. Seems like they're planning to reuse content as much as possible, and in this case everything is rehashed except for the wedding slice recipe. Given how dramatically they've cut the investment in this game, I am just happy that we are still getting something. It's better than nothing, and it looks like RS2 came very close to getting nothing.

The invisible thing seems like a data loading problem. Maybe uninstall/reinstall or clear game data to get it to try to reload again.

[Rynetory2]

The team had a discussion with Breanna and she agreed not to run away. You should see her in your restaurant.

Please post in Thread: Breanna the Bride is invisible if she's still invisible. Thanks.