Fishing NEEDS to be fixed

I fish because fishing is relaxing... fishing isn't relaxing when I constantly have to move.

-1 to moving while fishing... plz fix.

 

Uh fishing even for real you have to move or you will fish a place out, at least to catch anything. Of course you can sit in one place and "fish" all you want but eventually you wont catch anything. And some times you even have to move to find the fish.

Soo not broken at all sorry :-(

 

Maybe fishing outside a 'node' should have just a really small percent chance.. That would be realistic, and the eventual bite while sitting and drinking would be really cool.

 

I'm okay with this but the way it is now it takes a worm every 5 seconds and if you don't move it drops to less than 1% chance in less than 5 minutes... so... it sucks.

 

Also, as someone who liked fishing with my dad... we always fished from a beach or a dock and we never moved and we always caught stuff... so the theory you have to move to fish is just silly...

 

Moving existed in UO, it'll exist here. It's the only logical way to avoid scripting, macro bot overkill botters. But I wouldn't be against a relaxation version of fishing where you don't get gains from it. Otherwise, moving is too logical anti-farming-wise.

 

When you make a game simply to not be botted you're missing out on making a fun game. WoW fixed this with not allowing you to target and requiring you to interact with the bobber. I'm fine with that. I was actually bummed that I couldn't fish from the "/sit" position on the side of my docks because I know they already have rigging separated from upper and lower body so I figured it would have been possible.

I'm 100% for not making a game easy to bot but when you make it suck to fight botting then just scrap it.

It's like a store that locks up all their stuff and has no one there to unlock it. I'm sure you've been there before. You got to buy something but can't because you can't find anyone with a key to get it. "We have to lock it because of the thieves." is what I get told. I understand 100%. I'm not against that. But there are better ways. Personally, in my computer store that I own, I don't have anything locked and I just put 5 security cameras on my shelves and huge "you're on camera" signs and everyone left my stuff alone for years.

There are many ways to fight against botting and making someone walk like this is, well, not my cup of tea. Fishing, to me, is something that is a social enjoyable activity and I don't remember it being great fun in UO. I remember it being great fun IRL and in WOW. Don't hate me for saying that because it might have been great fun in UO I just don't remember it being fun. Anyway... just my feedback that I think having to walk as frequently as I do is silly and frustrating.

 

Same is true for me Violation, my father and I would fish on a Friday night from the same dock and there would be fish caught. It is the fish that move! It's not a fish bowl.

 

Good memories! Can't wait for my kids to get a bit older so I can make some of these types of memories with them

 

If I remember correctly, WoW required you to walk around and find the 'nodes' to fish out of. Legend of Zelda, has had some good fishing, where the fish were actual NPC's swimming around under water, and you just needed to plop the bait within range of their pathing.
Minecraft has the best fishing I've seen, where you can fish anywhere the water is deep enough, and you have to interact with the bobber at the right moment to successfully catch something. That's about how I hope SotA works.

 

Minecraft was great, exactly.
Wow didn't require pool fishing ... it required pool fishing to get specific types of fish. I personally didn't spend my time fishing in pools because I didn't care for those specific fish... I just wanted to do something to pass time so I would sit on a dock and fish while waiting to kill someone from the alliance faction that walked past... spent a lot of time doing this. Did it back on southshore, did it into wrath in the dalaran skycity and would track the alliance people who would mount and fly out of the faction neutral protection. In UO I was a pker. I killed every alliance faction person I could because they were all my enemy. No faction here so fishing, for me, would be a lot different. It would be like it was in Minecraft... a pastime that's fun because I want to do something that is mind numbing and easy and likely chat with my buddy while he does it with me.

 

Indeed you had a greater chance for a particular species if fishing within the nodes for WOW but it wasn't necessary.

 

I'd love Minecraft fishing here.

Can I fish up a power V, infinity bow? Please?

 

I just realized that the macro argument is invalid... that's why we have experience pools

If someone wants to macro through their experience pool it should be allowed... they earned the experience. My two cents: macros aren't what kills a game... unchecked game systems that have to be macrod and give some sort of benefit to macroing kill it. If the experience pools are regulated properly then macroing won't give any benefit beyond standardized usage and progression.

 

Flame II!!!

 

NOO!!!!! It's bad - can backfire and catch you on fire