Make FSHing more like FISHing

Off-hand Reels (different looks, actually display on the rod)

Cast

Control Depth - Drop Line/Reel Back?

Depth Meter (different fish based on depth)

Set the Hook - Weak/Strong?

Tension Meter (manipulate drag to keep the fish hooked)

Increase/Decrease Drag

Respond to Tugs (sound cues prompting when to pause/reel)


It could be a bit more like Crafting in that you could have a Distance measure (opposite to progress, when a fish hooks you want to reel it back in…it’ll fight you increasing distance away, if it reaches max you lose the fish)… and utilize techniques to help your odds of baiting HQ fish (chum, drift, jig, troll, & etc… perhaps differentiate it from crafting in that you couldn’t 100% HQ, maybe cap at 50% with the remaining 50% left to chance).

As it is currently, FSHing is pretty lame... there's a ton of potential currently built into the game to make FSHing amazing & honestly... it wouldn't be too difficult. I just handed you the tools, now: make a few reel-models/icons, create a few simple abilities plus their animations, a couple UI elements, & you're done.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Gesser

Cast

Control Depth - Drop Line/Reel Back?

Depth Meter (different fish based on depth)

Set the Hook - Weak/Strong?

Tension Meter (manipulate drag to keep the fish hooked)

Increase/Decrease Drag

Respond to Tugs (sound cues prompting when to pause/reel)

---

This is how fishing was in 1.0. You'd cast and be prompted to choose your depth, one of 11 slots (0, +1 to +5, -1 to -5). After you set your depth, you'd wait. A fish would either then nibble, where you'd wait, or bite, where you'd jig. On jigging you were given a pie slice chart thingy, with a ball moving left and right over it. It was essentially cut into five zones, and jigging in one zone would give you a result. If you were close to where you'd reel in the fish, it would say that you're pulling on the line. If it was off, the fish would be pulling on the line. Sometimes it would say that you had it right but couldn't quite reel it yet, at which point you'd jig at the same spot again.

It was really easy once you got it, and at level 50 the pattern never changed anywhere, so you always knew what you were going to get. But the system relied on you paying attention, and if you ever lost a fish it was entirely your fault.

I miss it still.

I personally don't mind how fishing is now. I just wish you could make -some- gil off it. Or that it had some nice endgame stuff to do (like 10,000 moat carps for lu-shangs)

I don't think the way I laid it out is asking for much... a few of those things could be scrapped even.

I just want more than a wait for it... wait for it... wait for it... single button press.

I don't mind it so much except for two things:

1.) the insane inventory aggro.

Unlike other gathering classes (but akin to fishing in real life) you cannot control which items you gather. With 8+ types of fish at each location, plus their HQ counterparts, that gives a chance for 16+ item slot clogging types of fish. Not to mention different types of bait. Just give us a tacklebox, SE!

2.) Sandfishing and Skyfishing

Cause there isn't enough water in eorzea? forreals?

New Fishing content is coming with 2.2

Quote:

---

- new fishing challenges

---

http://cdn2.dualshockers.com/wp-cont...4-13_57_27.jpg

Maybe something with Leviathan?

And yes, OP wishes sound a bit like the fishing during 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...eGfvqOrg#t=652

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by NyneAlexander

2.) Sandfishing and Skyfishing

Cause there isn't enough water in eorzea? forreals?

---

Never heard about flying fishes? ^^

Also, more use for fish.... most of them aren't even used as crafting mats and/or GC turn-in :/ And what's with the silliness that aquariums (for housing) are hard to design, while we're on topic of fish? >.>

EDIT: Dunefishing and skyfishing make a splashing watery sound when you reel fish in -_-

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Azurymber

I personally don't mind how fishing is now. I just wish you could make -some- gil off it. Or that it had some nice endgame stuff to do (like 10,000 moat carps for lu-shangs)

---

Good news for you then. Fish several thousand times at various locations throughout Eorzea and you can obtain a Luminary Rod.

I hope they make more fishing actions. As of now I can fish without looking at the screen.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by myahele

I hope they make more fishing actions. As of now I can fish without looking at the screen.

---

Word... which has merit, but I'd rather be actively playing the game than going into windowed-mode, watching Hulu, & periodically clicking.