silver sovereign...it can't be this bad, can it?

[LineageRazor]

Catching Mahi-mahis does not mean you missed catching a soverin.

Actually, it might. It depends on how SE chose to calculate fish odds. If you cast the line, you have a 100% chance to hook a fish. This 100% is divided among the catchable fish. For an example using entirely made-up numbers:

10%: Sea Cucumber
15%: Vongola Clam
15%: Moraby Flounder
20%: Pebble Crab
20%: Tiger Cod
15%: Rothlyt Oyster
5%: Silver Sovereign

If you add in an additional fish, now, that fish has some percentage chance to be hooked. Since the total percentage can't go over 100% the percent chance of at least one other fish has to lower to make room. If SE was kind, the percentages of only fish that aren't Silver Sovereign will be lowered. However, if SE was kind, they would not be having us fish up 20 HQ of these wretched things in the first place. So, I tend to think that adding Mahi-Mahi to the mix DOES lower the odds of catching Silver Sovereign, at least a little:

9%: Sea Cucumber
14%: Vongola Clam
14%: Moraby Flounder
19%: Pebble Crab
19%: Tiger Cod
14%: Rothlyt Oyster
7%: Mahi-mahi
4%: Silver Sovereign


It may not be a noticable difference, but after you've spent enough time staring dead-eyed at the screen, watching for the tug of the line, and dying a little inside when you reel in yet another fish that is not HQ Silver Sovereign, you start looking for any possible way to improve your odds. :P