Fish. When do they stop sensing something is amiss?

[Espritduo]

Well, if my testimony has any value, I can corroborate the catching requirements as well as anyone, I suppose. I have about a dozen Titanic Sawfish under my belt and have never caught a single one outside those conditions. And I have spent many, many hours catching Silver Sharks during the night and non-clear weather without ever seeing the sawfish come up. Silver Sharks are good money, so I tend to stick around until I go through about two stacks of low level bait.

As for as the "amiss" mechanic, everything I've experienced with it suggests it is a timer that starts ticking the second you cast your bait somewhere, and once that timer ticks down (it ticks whether you're actually still fishing in that spot or not), things go amiss for a set time in a small area (maybe a yalm or two) around where you were fishing. Then once that amiss timer runs down (doesn't matter where you are or what you're doing during this time), you can fish there again. I can't really give a clear timeframe on those, but I do know that the timeframe for the amiss timer is at least a couple hours. There may be some specific more complex mechanisms going on, but honestly, I don't fish enough in one single location to really notice it.

[synesthetic]

Well, if my testimony has any value, I can corroborate the catching requirements as well as anyone, I suppose. I have about a dozen Titanic Sawfish under my belt and have never caught a single one outside those conditions. And I have spent many, many hours catching Silver Sharks during the night and non-clear weather without ever seeing the sawfish come up.

That's very valuable to me. Good number of results under unbiased fishing habits. So thank you a lot for that.
But wow, you must've spent forever fishing here.


I get the feeling there are two "amiss" things going on.

The first is the timer one that everyone knows. Maybe around half an hour to an hour, it kicks in and you need to move a short distance. A while later, it resets for that small spot ("grid"? as the devs termed it).

The one I'm seeing has the same message, but feels more like a hard cap for the whole "fishing hole". I hit it again yesterday after going through at least 198+195 crab balls, plus however many mooches and such in between. I should've tried fishing in a different hole, like maybe Silver Bazaar for hammerheads, just to see if it was a global fishing cap or not. Or probably a completely different map entirely, since FF11 had zone-wide fishing caps. But no, for better and worse judgment, I went to sleep instead.

[waca]

I get the feeling there are two "amiss" things going on.

The one I'm seeing has the same message, but feels more like a hard cap for the whole "fishing hole". I hit it again yesterday after going through at least 198+195 crab balls, plus however many mooches and such in between. I should've tried fishing in a different hole, like maybe Silver Bazaar for hammerheads, just to see if it was a global fishing cap or not...

I want to bring up this question again, any input on the certain number on "hard cap" or lockout "reset time" would be nice.

I do not understand what you're talking until I met the problem myself today. I can't fish in the whole slyphlands fishing hole zone after catching several hundreds fish, I didn't remember the number since I've been working on luminary achievement these few days at the same area. I did try another fishing hole on the same map, it's still available, not locked out.

[Fury_Yruf]

I re-log when they sense something is amiss and always seem to be able to fish again.

[Sparky]

Never had a problem such as the OP describes. Usually when the fish sense something is amiss, moving as little as 5 or 10 metres away allows me to continue fishing.

[Desidious]

I would like a definitive answer honestly. I was fishing the sylphlands for velodyna carp and other misc fish for my last level V fishing achievement when all of the fish in the ENTIRE SYLPHLANDS sudden sensed something amiss for over an hour. Did this happen to anyone else?

[immanji]

no one can answer the OP's question. I just came across this problem, and if people read the original question they would understand that you can't move 10 or so m's away. The spot becomes entirely unfishable and we don't know how long for it to pass before we can resume fishing. I'm starting my timer now. Tell ya when I get back.

[HEC]

no one can answer the OP's question. I just came across this problem, and if people read the original question they would understand that you can't move 10 or so m's away. The spot becomes entirely unfishable and we don't know how long for it to pass before we can resume fishing. I'm starting my timer now. Tell ya when I get back.

Did you actually read the thread? It was answered already at least 3 times here. Once you get the whole area unfishable you need to move to different area (different name, not just different "location"), cast at least once (you can cancel the cast afterwards, no need to catch anything) and that resets the timer for the first location so you can go back and fish for another fixed period of time. As far as I know this timer will not reset itself unless you perform the cast elsewhere.

[nokinator]

I have never seen the entire area amiss. ive been fishin quite a few moons as well. not the spot the area.. this seems like a bug. i usually move to a new area a within the same map and catch a few fish and your good to go back. i would bring it up to a GM never heard of it.. going back to the same spot without going somewheres else first weather you think its hours or you been in DF or whatever you will always get amiss or at least thats what i have experienced.. you have to move and fish to reset it...

[BobbinT]

Could be longer. When I fish silver sovereign after few hours, I logged out and went to bed. Next day I log and tried to fish, I immediately for fish being suspicious. Even after fishing very few attempts and entering DF does make fish suspicious when you exit DF.

Just go to other different fishing spot and fish 1 time, then return to your original spot. You should be able to resume fishing again.