Ice fishing

[Bannon]

Hello,

I was flying around near Falcon's Nest on my fisher class, and was wondering if anyone had ever considered adding ice fishing to the game. It could be implemented in any number of different ways, such as working it like spearfishing, or you could fish anywhere you're on ice but it'd take GP to cut a hole in the ice? Maybe you could only fish in existing tents that were set up on the ice to mark the spots?

Then the holes could close on you after a time, or X number of fish were caught... Your secondary weapon could be an auger, or some sort of magitek device used to cut through the ice.

For the animation, you could have the character's pole remain at its compact size rather than extending out to full length, as ice fishing poles are considerably shorter than normal ones. When you've exhausted a spot, the message you receive could read something about needing to move before you get sick, or something like that.

There are several arctic fish you could use (modified for Eorzea of course, such as Coerthan Grayling, some sort of char or whitefish?)

Just a thought. Maybe for a future expansion? I've gone ice fishing enough in real life that I'm rather surprised it took me this long to think of this. What do you think?

[DrWho2010]

seeing as there's only two zones that are frozen over - Coerthas Central/Western - i don't think having only two zones be available for such a thing warrants them putting in the game.

[Jeykama]

^ There's only 1 zone you can dunefish and lavafish from, and cloudfishing/skyfishing are limited to a couple zones each, not really the issue.

The issue is that they're not likely to add brand new convoluted mechanics to fishing that aren't broadly useable and that you are proposing not only fishing pole model and animation changes (model not a huge deal, but animation probably would be)... as well as terrain changes. It's easy to add raised rocks to terrain, but it's very difficult to make holes that actually look like holes unless the terrain was specifically designed for it with holes pre-punched.

In all it just sounds like a huge amount of trouble to add a little realism that isn't very flexible.

[Bannon]

Jeykama, those are valid points. I was thinking of it more from a "next expansion" perspective using Coerthas as an example. I still think the idea has merit, as they created spearfishing for an expansion which is radically different than the way fishing had worked in the past. That involved new gear, a new animation, the use of a new gear slot (for fishers)...

Maybe they won't do something like this, but it's still on my wish list =)

[Moomba33]

Well, there's the Exploratory Ice Hole fishing spot in Coerthas Central Highlands (in the little nook in between Snowcloak and Behemoth's Dominion) so it looks like SE may have thought about it but not considered it worth being a separate type of fishing from normal.