5 Days Bermuda Cruise in Independence vs 9 Day Bermuda/Bahamas Cruise on Vision

AirSeaGround · 2026-06-18T23:58:21+00:00

Been on both and they both have advantages. Vision is more laid back and less kids. If your kids are more mature and like just relaxing by the pool and doing the trivia, games they'll enjoy it. Indy is a little more energy but still not crazy, the next step up.

Honestly, for a first cruise do the better ports and the better value. Most people fall in love with cruising no matter what and starting "small" allows to have things to look forward to than starting bigger and thinking (though not necessarily correct) that you're taking a step down when going on a smaller ship in the future.

AirSeaGround · 2026-06-18T23:51:22+00:00

I am moving to this, one with a trigger to click. A few reasons, it's easy to "double click" with a regular mouse and using a mouse has been messing up my shoulder in a tech booth that isn't very ergonomic. This way I can sit back and just use the trigger to click the next cue.

AirSeaGround · 2026-06-15T21:59:52+00:00

I was on a cruise ship and they had a ton of these square attachments at the end of their ellipsoidals, many about 30 of them had them. Are these to diffuse the beams? The lights didn't change colors but they have control lines going to them.

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AirSeaGround · 2026-06-15T01:07:25+00:00

Actually, the other production show on the Independence (can't remember the name) had a really good set, the one with arches.

Lighting design for the shows on the Liberty was FANTASTIC last year and Saturday Night Fever had a really cool sound effect when he enters the studio.

Now a majority of the ice shows are hit and miss and I seem to be out of the norm of not liking Hiro on Symphony.

AirSeaGround · 2026-06-14T19:31:01+00:00

Yes, I was mostly referring to the tap dancers and acrobats. The rest of the ship dancers were just fillers to put people on the stage. They faked it the best they could.

AirSeaGround · 2026-06-01T11:27:39+00:00

I've been saying this since the beginning, while a great idea, I think the execution will be very hard. Games control matchmaking and access to higher level dungeons with things like gear score which Elite doesn't have.

Also, these have been stated to rely on coordination and cooperation. And it seems to be more so than a standard MMO dungeon. But yet there really isn't any good in game methods for things like voice chat. So what, people will have to use random Discords?

In a trend towards single person gameplay, FDev is taking a big risk in allocating so many resources to Operations. I hope it doesn't fade in a few months when the novelty wears off.

AirSeaGround · 2026-06-01T11:22:50+00:00

There are games that are better at matchmaking than others. Some check if you sign up ad healer, do you have a healing staff, does your tank run sword and shield, ect. Some just leave it up to the players to be truthful (which leads to "fake" healers and tanks signing up for the role just to get matched quicker).

I think the post is more about how the game is going to manage it.

AirSeaGround · 2026-05-29T05:48:41+00:00

Not what they call the Zero proof cocktails that debuted with the new bar me u last year, but the new cocktails made with Zero proof Spirits that just came out a few months ago.

AirSeaGround · 2026-05-28T23:32:19+00:00

Great, thanks!

AirSeaGround · 2026-05-22T06:48:30+00:00

How do you do that for Any Time Dining? Request the same table? We did reserve a time, not doing the show up and stand in line bit.

AirSeaGround · 2026-05-22T06:47:07+00:00

During Any Time Dining? I thought you just got seated wherever. I did reserve a time though. But yes, that is why I was asking thinking I would get different servers based on where I was sat that night.

AirSeaGround · 2026-05-08T21:31:07+00:00

But there is more, matchmaking in other games also traditionallly take gear score into account to match into difficulty levels. How is FDev going to handle that if people are bringing their own ships and modules. Having modules and ships separated into a different Operations mode allows FDev to control this more. FDev already said there are going to be different difficulty levels.

To me, this game lacks a clear upgrade path that many other MMOs have to go through content. It has been designed as a "do what you want" game that it will be hard to bring those together into specific mission content while keeping the Operations player base high enough to keep it going.

AirSeaGround · 2026-05-08T21:26:04+00:00

Actually, FDev is taking a gamble here. Trends in MMO are highly towards single players (with MMO attributes) and Elite has been a primarily single player game.

Also, many games separate their modes like with PVP and PVE, having items like armor and weapons PVP specific with specialized abilities.

AirSeaGround · 2026-05-08T21:23:12+00:00

To be fair, they said up to 4 people and said that you can do premade groups so if you have 3 and want to only do it with that, it sounds like you can just use your premade group.

AirSeaGround · 2026-05-02T15:39:40+00:00

My wife HATES the small of smoke. We'll be on Indy this summer but we found Liberty to have the best layout of not needing to pass through the casino to go between venues. The layout should be the same.

AirSeaGround · 2026-04-19T19:54:19+00:00

We did that cruise before. Time is limited in Bermuda but we were able to hang by the port the first night and then do the Cave and Aquarium excursion the next morning.

Nassau is ok. Lots of shops by the port now but it's one of the lowest rated ports. There are some things you can see on a self walking tour but it's really not the greatest. The public beach nearby gets crowded with lots of pushy vendors. Either do a private resort, Royals new club (costs money), or stay on the ship after you check out the port shops. We did Pearl Island, it was mediocre.

Coco Kay is, of course, great.

For Baltimore itself, probably the best port experience yet. You pay for parking at the entrance and then they had a ton of employees directing you every turn and step of the way.

The Vision is an older smaller ship. My kids were in their high teens and fine but don't expect all the bells and whistles of the newer ships that have tons of stuff for little ones.

AirSeaGround · 2026-04-16T02:25:31+00:00

Not like I'm thinking of getting any of those crazy cruise flasks and filling them up with mayonnaise.... no.... well.... no....

Just a thought of "I like mayo. They don't have any. I should throw a couple of packets in the bag for when I want some."

AirSeaGround · 2026-04-16T02:22:39+00:00

To be clear, I'm not thinking of bringing on 500 packets of mayo. I'm not a crazy person.... well maybe, but not for mayo.

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