View Full Version : Unrealistic Fishing Results Make Fishing Boring
Lennytw
11-15-2013, 06:59 AM
As a player with 8+ years FFXI experience, I am very disappointed in the way fishing has become a complete snooze-fest. I would like to see a more realistic fishing experience. For example, if I fish in one spot for an hour, I should not be pulling up 20 rusty buckets, or rusty leggings (no fishing moghancement, btw). If there were truly that many items in the waters, there would be no room for fish. The commonality of catching these items makes it extremely annoying! Also, I have fished in real-life many times. I never throw out my line and after 5 seconds determine I am not going to catch anything. We should be able to leave the line in the water until we give up and reel it in.
These two major annoyances will cause players to lose interest in fishing very quickly and it becomes more of a chore than fun. Add these annoyances to the slow fishing skill-ups and I am hanging up my fishing pole for good. I just spent the entire 2-hour crafting enhancement period and I got .2 skill ups (I am level 27 fishing), caught around 12 black eels, 16 rusty buckets, 10 rusty leggings, and 36 times was told that I did not catch anything.
I realize some changes had to be made because of fishing bots, etc., but its should never come to making the activity a major annoyance.
Wake up, developers! This game is supposed to be enjoyed, not feel like a dinner with unlovable in-laws!
Wesper
01-10-2014, 09:33 AM
I did not see your post before I made my own post regarding this but, I totally agree. Fishing is a punishment. And I just came back to the game.. Fished for 45 mins, Caught 10 black sole, the rest was all items, and became fatigued in less than an hour. Or atleast it seemed that way, I started not being able to fish up anything for several attempts in a row.
I think Fishing, like the other crafting/gathering systems, need a complete overhaul and a major increase in skill gains =(
yeah I'd love for fishing to be fun in XI, but it isn't.
Draylo
01-11-2014, 02:05 PM
Fishing isn't fun in any game.
Wesper
01-11-2014, 07:54 PM
Fishing isn't fun in any game.
I actually enjoyed leveling Fishing XIV. But mind you it was for relaxation. Just point and click and listen to some music ^_^; I liked that. I miss that about the old way of fishing before SE made all the changes.
Draylo
01-12-2014, 08:46 AM
That is even more boring than the way it is now though... At least now there is a mini-game lol
Wesper
01-12-2014, 01:56 PM
I think the difference between old XI fishing and New XIV fishing is that it takes less time to reach max level in XIV. That might be why I found it fun.
But even if SE cant figure out a good way to make it fun, they could atleast make it simpler to level. Maybe increase the rate of skill gains at the very least?
dasva
01-13-2014, 11:16 AM
I miss the old way of fishing where you could just make a maccro of /fish. /wait XXX (forget the exact amount) /fish /wait XXX /fish and afk for a couple minutes. Or if you even wanted to you could play solely by sound
As far as skillup goes... with a single ring I generally get from 0 to 80 in 3-4 weeks sometimes less if lucky so really wouldn't consider it that bad
Wesper
01-14-2014, 01:12 PM
As far as skillup goes... with a single ring I generally get from 0 to 80 in 3-4 weeks sometimes less if lucky so really wouldn't consider it that bad
The problem I have with this is you have to win a ring in the contest first. Something I never had any luck with. Perhaps now there is less people online, I might win. I guess I'll see in 2 weeks lol.
Also, it took me less than 1 week to cap fishing from 0-50 in XIV.
dasva
01-14-2014, 04:12 PM
The key to winning is picking which contest to bother with and which ones to ignore. If it's a fish with a decent bite rate that is easy to get to with little aggro... say jungle catfish good luck. I litterally fished for a full week nothing but that picking the best and still lost. On the other hand if it's something annoying to get say sea zombie there might not even be 20 entries total lol
Camate
02-13-2014, 09:51 AM
Greetings,
We are planning for changes to the fishing system in the March version update. Additionally, we will be adding fishing-related objectives to Records of Eminence at that time as well. We’ll be announcing further information on this in the future!
Darwena
02-13-2014, 03:02 PM
Do whatever you want, if the skill up is still a joke, don't thing I would find any interest to it.
I never throw out my line and after 5 seconds determine I am not going to catch anything.
I don't disagree with the idea, but the amount of time they keep their line out is actually a good number of minutes. Earth time =/= Vana'diel time.
Komachii
02-13-2014, 08:35 PM
Problem with fishing... there is no point doing it legit. Tried Hakuryus, thats some fight there, often even ran out of time, anyway is just not worth to spend your playtime fishing. Fishes worth NPCing difficult to catch and you can only land a few, fishes used for cooking are selling cheap, again, not worth your time. You probably making more gil just killing stuff and NPC/AHing the stuff they drop.
I gave up totally on fishing now, last time i tried for Matsyas and after 15 straight line breaks i decided to wait on fishing overhaul.