Please Fix Fishing

[Alhanelem]

weren't fish vendor prices previously nerfed BECAUSE they were used by RMT to farm gil (since it's so stupidly easy to bot)

RMT still exist, so unless RMT are actually playing the game to farm sparks, it's probably best to leave it alone.

[Nyarlko]

weren't fish vendor prices previously nerfed BECAUSE they were used by RMT to farm gil (since it's so stupidly easy to bot)

RMT still exist, so unless RMT are actually playing the game to farm sparks, it's probably best to leave it alone.

The prices were nerfed prior to the minigame being added, so it made sense to do so back when fishing was literally nothing but a cast>reel-in activity making it a perfect target for RMT. Nowadays tho, they could make every single fish sell for 1k and it would still be a pittance compared to sparks.

Let's be generous and say the average catch rate is ~30sec each. (I know that it takes longer per catch normally, but for example's sake.)
That would be 2 fish per minute, or 120 per hour, assuming every single thing that bites is a fish, and you don't lose any of them.
That would be a mere 120k per hour, at something like 5-10x the current NPC prices.. Practically, I don't think it'd be possible to actually reel in 120 fish per hour, so the actual gil/hour would be even lower. Don't think it'd beat sparks farming (which it probably shouldn't tbh) as long as the average price per fish sold was under 10,000 each in fact.

Fish could stand a price bump. >_>

I don't fish. I would not benefit from prices going up on fish beyond the garbage I get out of Mog Garden. I still say our fishing brethren should stop getting screwed over.

[Sirmarki]

Nowadays tho, they could make every single fish sell for 1k and it would still be a pittance compared to sparks.

Yep. There is no way fishing will ever come close to the gil generated from sparks. Factoring in the catch rates, and the daily cap too. The most valuable fish are extremely low catch rates. For example, Matsya require rare/ex bait, and you'll be lucky to get 5 per hour. Same with some of the pop item fish, the catch rate is low.

Obviously, fishing is an important factor when it comes to cooking ingredients though.