Make fishing great (for the first time)

Fishing is important for people who think it is important. Many games make fishing boring and/or pointless. How would you make fishing great? Here are my ideas.

Engaging gameplay
Don't just make us click a "fish" ability and then wait for the bobber to move and then make us click it. Make it more fun, maybe throw in some timing, reflex bonuses, speed clicking bonus. Make it varied, skillful engaging and interesting.

Progression
Many games simply make you spam fish non stop. Sometimes in different zones. Give us fun quests. Give us fun events. Make us travel. Make us prepare. Make us unlock different stuff and perks. Make us upgrade our fishing rods and bobbers. Give us flexibility. Make us feel like we are getting better at fishing. Make it more dangerous. That epic rare shark that rarely spawns? Dont make it purely RNG based. Make us prepare for it with the right rod and bait. Make us scream of happiness when we catch it. Make that shark be valuable through other professions

I really want a journal with about 100 different fish, all of different rarity, sizes and requirements. Make us fill up this journal with fish we find. Give us titles and mount skins for doing so.

Fishing rod & bobber
This is the soul of the fisher. Give us different fishing rods good for different things. Make us craft those epic special rods that are good for different things. Make us work hard for them so the rods are rewarding to use. Give some rare rods special abilities. Maybe walk on water for 10 min? Maybe underwater breathing? Maybe swimspeed? Maybe teleport to nearest water once a day?

Cooking synergy
Everyone knows fish oil gives BIG BRAIN. Make our fish be useful for cooking. Make those rare fish become ingredients for raid wide feasts with buffs. Give us fish that give fun effects when eaten.

Tournaments
Give us the ability to do tournaments with other players and NPCs. Make us climb the ranks of fishing gods.

Decoration
After grinding 7 months to finaly catch ol'jackjaw, please let me display him on my house or guild hall. Also give me the option to display fishing rods on the wall.

Multiplayer
We have cool ships in the game. Why not use them? Let us fish with friends. Let us fish whales etc or big sharks or maybe a massive squid. Make it a team effort.

Do you have any other ideas? I like fish

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daveywavey

I usually end up spending faaaaar too much time fishing, in games like this. I'll likely be joining you for the squid hunt!

FliP

It's mostly just an afk activity for me, but if it's done good, I could probably see myself fishing sometime... maybe..

George_Black

Just make it hard for the sake of the economy.

Pannath

While I'm allergic to seafood in real life, I also spend a ridiculous amount of time fishing in game. Since original Everquest where I literally would look for water in every zone I went into the try to fish and see if there was some special fish to that zone.

I agree, I would like to see the game make it a bit more complex than press a button to fish and just sit there. Now I'm thinking about fishing in Dark Cloud 2.

Games need other activities for people to do that are fun. Yes fishing would be a gathering profession, but why should the only progression that is fun be adventuring or where you need to use some skill?

Nagash

daveywavey wrote: »

I usually end up spending faaaaar too much time fishing, in games like this. I'll likely be joining you for the squid hunt!

Yeah Im the same I spent 11 hours straight fishing in FF14 with out knowing

Penguinos

I absolutely detest fishing, given my terrible luck of IRL teaching people to fish and them getting 10 fish in a day, when I haven't gotten a single fish in a decade.

That being said, a good fishing system should 100% be implemented!

Shoklen

While fishing in Everquest 1, you could pull up a sandal out of the water...

Katak

@Nagash

Rigoration

Fishing is one of my favorite past times. A mechanic for better luck/reward based on skillset would be cool.

Sathrago

It would be really interesting if certain bosses or mobs both on land and in the sea dropped materials that fishers could craft into special baits that can then be used to fish up rare bosses/mobs/events.

Like a chum bucket of fresh baby otter meat to attract extremely angry Twitterfish that you have to fight off in waves.

Let's be creative

FliP

Rigoration wrote: »

Fishing is one of my favorite past times. A mechanic for better luck/reward based on skillset would be cool.

Basically what BDO introduced not long ago with lifeskill mastery.

The higher your mastery, the more items you get and the higher the chance for rare items is.

Voidwalkers

Just make sure you add in a chance to fish up an angry weird bipedal fish-ish boss at some specific location.

Taking an idea from Sword Art Online - you have a certain area with lots of lakes, and is therefore a popular fishing spot - But there's one specific lake that's different (it could have a higher skill lv requirement, or much lower chance of getting a good catch - just reasons to make this lake less popular). Some non-quest-giver NPCs would rumor that there's a loch monster lurking, and you have to go on an information hunt to find the specific bait that happens to be the loch monster's favorite treat ... etc.

Marcet

Being a cook I'll need my trusty fishermen who saves me the best fresh catch of the day, before selling it to anyone. I hope fishing and the interdependency between artisan classes is fun and engaging, it has so much potential for amazing player driven economy.

Fuppo Headhunter

Am looking foreword to fishing in AoC and am excited to see how they approach it as development progresses!

maouw

Marcet wrote: »

Being a cook I'll need my trusty fishermen who saves me the best fresh catch of the day, before selling it to anyone. I hope fishing and the interdependency between artisan classes is fun and engaging, it has so much potential for amazing player driven economy.

What do people think of fish having a "freshness" rating?
coz irl freshness is so important when choosing which fish to cook

edit: it's coz in most MMO's I've played, people stockpile 99 fish and they saturate the economy. Freshness at least encourages people to sell fish while they're fresh.

ohToasty

maouw wrote: »

Marcet wrote: »

Being a cook I'll need my trusty fishermen who saves me the best fresh catch of the day, before selling it to anyone. I hope fishing and the interdependency between artisan classes is fun and engaging, it has so much potential for amazing player driven economy.

What do people think of fish having a "freshness" rating?
coz irl freshness is so important when choosing which fish to cook

My immediate thoughts are that that would be annoying, but if it serves a purpose and is expanded upon it could be cool. Freshness could make fish from one area rare and valuable in another, and they could have a system where you can salt and preserve your fish while slightly decreasing the quality, again making fresh fish rarer

Sathrago

maouw wrote: »

Marcet wrote: »

Being a cook I'll need my trusty fishermen who saves me the best fresh catch of the day, before selling it to anyone. I hope fishing and the interdependency between artisan classes is fun and engaging, it has so much potential for amazing player driven economy.

What do people think of fish having a "freshness" rating?
coz irl freshness is so important when choosing which fish to cook

edit: it's coz in most MMO's I've played, people stockpile 99 fish and they saturate the economy. Freshness at least encourages people to sell fish while they're fresh.

A freshness rating could be very good for the wellness of the fishing business. Because there is magic in this world, perhaps a master fisherman can have access to a magical cooler that reduces the "decay" speed of fish in the inventory. This item would require a magical resource as fuel to stay operational and you can turn it off/on manually.

Varkun

Honestly fishing is something I tend to do as an afterthought but I know others love it and some of the ideas by the OP sound really interesting. Systems like fishing get people excited to play are all good in my book and just add to a games population.

Marcet

It would be amazing if we had freshness and spoiled stats, so you can't get the fish from one side of the map to the other, making regional commerce unique. And the salt thing to keep it from spoiling seems awesome too.

keimojeppe

I liked FF14 fishing a lot. And im liking these ideas you're giving here

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