Adding a pity system to fishing that is NOT item related and rather fish related
Details/background on your proposal
makes it so when every X number of fish is caught a legendary fish appears on the next pull (the same way it works with the sunken pity) while making sure that the number is EVEN (ex : 1002 , 1004 , 1000) so it doesn’t overlap with the sunken pity (unless u reached an absurdly high count to which at this point what are u doing with your life)
Pros and Cons
Pros : makes completing the the fish journal more probable and less time consuming
Cons : might lower the value of legendary fish scales
Sunken is 3001th catch, so it would have to be even instead
I would say this is less of a luck problem and more of a lag problem. I caught ~4k fish in my time and half the legendaries I missed were due to a crazy lagspike from ~150->800-900-even past 1k.
Still, legendary fish pity sounds nice, although I cannot speak objectively here.
you don’t need legendary fish. i could understand asking for rare fish pity due to insane unluck on getting nighttime only fish, but legendary fish are not a necessity and are only a nicety
they’re also already way easier to get due to the deckhand update, you passively generate very good tier fish while not at your ship
Counter point : the need for luck potions increased for almost all game aspects. Luck 4 pots are the minimum u need if u want to consistently have good results.
and since those are 5 legendary scales (keep in mind a fish rotting only gives like 2-3 scales) having a way to ensure getting one every couple thousand fishes caught is more impactful than one might think. and i genuinely have yet to see a legendary fish get caught by my crew despite having full hooks on all deckhands so they can’t be as common as u claim
(though the idea of pity for rare fish is good and can be implemented alongside the legendary fish pity)
either you’re unlucky or im lucky, as ive seen 2 in very little time having my ship docked. (which would be the reason for implementing pity, but i still don’t think this necessitates it)
statistically, luck 4 potions pay themselves back in scales (if you use it to fish) so once you’re able to finally grind/trade to that breakpoint, you can quickly keep up with it. luck potions are still not a need, as they still hardly even function properly outside of fishing. there’s an in-game economy for a reason, and it’s why the pity system is very slim though vetex is generous enough to still have it exist.
In my opinion, we don’t need a legendary fish pity system, but rather, a better rod. I think we need a new rod upgrade like a golden fishing rod (similar to golden shovel)