What was all that about making ships and big cakes? (Translated with Q/A from rep)

[Colino]

We've been complaining about the lack of those things on the english forums for ages too, you know.

Yeah but in fairness to OP we never received an official response about it which is why he posted this topic.

[Physic]

Yoshida himself mentioned that he was indeed shown the cakes, but no one showed him what the plan was to implement them. They probably didn't have one. So Yoshida basically said point blank that yeah he's seen the cakes and boats but isn't sure how to actually use them in the game.

Third tier backburner.

ehhh i remember tanaka said the ships would be tied to grand companies, pvp and going to new areas. Im sure we could come up with dozens of uses for those things in 10 minutes, yoshida just didnt want to do those things, or was unsure if he wanted to use the resources in the same way or create similar content, so he acted like it had no purpose. Either that or some dev team beef made people not want to tell him their ideas.

[Wolfie]

Thank you for the translations and those are very good points brought up by the community rep. If there's no purpose behind making a ship or giant cake, then it's kinda stupid to let people make them.

[Colino]

Thank you for the translations and those are very good points brought up by the community rep. If there's no purpose behind making a ship or giant cake, then it's kinda stupid to let people make them.

There's no purpose to 80% of the things you can craft now, so I don't see your point.

[giftforce]

I wonder what Yoshi would do stranded on a desert island with a giant cake and a boat.

He would probably look at them for ten months trying to figure out what they are for.

[Wolfie]

There's no purpose to 80% of the things you can craft now, so I don't see your point.

I don't see yours either. Are you trying to justify them adding a stupid/pointless feature because there are already stupid/pointless features in the game?

EDIT: The last thing this game needs is more half-baked features.

[Evangela]

Japanese people get mad about lack of crafting contents?

I don't care, as long as we're getting the new battle system

[Reinheart]

I wonder what Yoshi would do stranded on a desert island with a giant cake and a boat.

He would probably look at them for ten months trying to figure out what they are for.

Put the damn cake on the boat for food supply and get away from the damn island to hope for land with people and more food...

Or name the cake Wilson and make it a imaginary friend, then as time passes and the cake disappears shout WILSOOOOOOON and dance naked till you drop dead.

[Physic]

simple answer you make the boat to go to your companies hide out, you can get attacked on the way, you can craft all the things in your companies hideout, like a large visible cake, that company members can get, say 20 portions of consumable food from, acting like a LS bank for food, with visual in game representations. it really isnt that hard to see a use for a ship and a cake.

[Evangela]

Put the damn cake on the boat for food supply and get away from the damn island to hope for land with people and more food...

HAHA

how about an offer to transfer your character, items and level to the new SE's MMO after finish this quest?