Is Fishing still in AO, and if so, why?

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That’s legit the only problem with fishing right now, I don’t get why people call fishing a “bad” system when it’s meant to a side activity that’s not mean to have much effort into it.

In my personal opinion, the best way to improve fishing is to appeal to both those we want a simple side activity and those who want some sort of gameplay.

Maybe make an npc that gives our daily quests to capture certain fish for a lot of money.

Or maybe a npc that gives you a special weapon (a trident or something) or accessory (like a headless) when you collect either like a certain type of fish (like river, lake, or ocean fish) or just the entire fish catalog so people feel like they’re working towards something instead of fishing like a zombie for the tiny ass chance of a sunken.

Or a fishermen faction that if you complete tasks for they give out badges, money, special boats, sailor/fisher like clothes.

Fuck maybe even add fishing in volancos and in deep seas and summoning sea monsters to fight or some shit.

Personally, I don’t think these ideas would fix fishing, but I do think it could add more substance to it.

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getting sunkens doesn’t even take that long, its just really fucking boring

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I see people with over a thousand hours on wom spent mostly fishing and they still have less sunkens than traders.

Take that as sunken rates being shit or traders makin big money moves lmao.

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fishing is a mere illusion
a distraction from the government

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Fishing is an important source of food and is one of the three types of food in AO, so yes it is still in the game. You can survive without fishing if you do not like it.

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theres literally fucking water everywhere in ao why wouldnt fishing be a thing

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I like fishing. It’s a nice change of pace if I get too frustrated. The only problem with it is that sunkens incentivize people to do it over everything else, which just kinda sucks.

Also, stop misusing the word objective. You’re gonna ruin it like people ruined “literally.”

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I think a good way to also get sunkens is to make a rare spawning chest that would spawn in diving spots only which could give you sunkens

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shut up fishing on top :muscle:

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literally 1984

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This is stupid. Fishing is fine on its own, it gives meals mentioned above by like 20 people, sunken pity exists which gives a reason to actively fish, why remove a feature when it’s already implemented ( @ClashMaster273), its a side feature for when you are burned out.

This is why vetex added pity

Yay i love wasting my time on the internet making rants that nobody cares about

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What did I do, and how do I relate at all with the above mention

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hover

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image
its been used not literally so much that the definition contradicts itself

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it’s its own antonym, somehow…

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pity is a bad excuse for grinding tbh

it doesn’t really solve grinding and is just a lame excuse for why grinding is ok and not a waste of time

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doesnt do anything lol
unless pity is like 1000 catches it wont affect 90% of people

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I already did the math.
Pity farming is way faster than the 1/1333 with a mag rod

Its still a waste of time anyways you can probably get more value in less time and lower rng but hey if you want a sunken with you’re name slapped on it go ahead :person_shrugging:

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show your math, also keep in mind that farming fish bait is gonna be a lot harder once alt code farming is patched

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Ah shit here we go again
mag collectors is ~30 seconds per cast and luring bronze is ~15 seconds
15 x 3000/ 60/60 = 12.5 hours for pity with the fastest rod
Lets say the average odds for magnetic collectors is ~2000 per catch not including pity here.
16 hours for the average catch
For pity with mag collectors rod is 25 hours
all of this is wom based btw so anything can be different
Also for bait farming you can say it’s easier, because increased currency cap and bounty hunting is a efficient way for money