Fishes for Wishes

[Vesena]

The reveal stream mentioned wanting a system for increasing fish quality. What about some sort of magic fish you can rarely catch. Toss him back into a body of water, and that body's fish quality will increase. Mercilessly slice his belly open, and get an item from the flotsam pool that has high quality or value (do items have a defined 'value' attribute? Credo quests seem to generally start asking for more expensive items the further you get into the credo.) Feed him to a bear and the bear will become your bff. It could also be neat if there was some way to extract fishing knowledge from it "You sense that you would catch more Trout here if you used Hemp Fibre as line." and so on, but that probably falls under a greater fishing revamp.

[discospaceman]

I could see a quality-based 'fish weir" type emplacement that you could upgrade over time. It wouldn't catch fish automatically, but would stay in place until you moved it. Of course it wouldn't block boats.

These types of constructions were numerous in at least the New World.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_weir

Maybe fishing pole quality 'allows' you to catch higher quality fish, albeit not all the time.

[ricky]

I had a similiar idea some months ago: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=61776

basically fishing should scale with how often you fish an area, perhaps via quests or otherwise 'learned' knowledge

[Zentetsuken]

The reveal stream mentioned wanting a system for increasing fish quality. What about some sort of magic fish you can rarely catch. Toss him back into a body of water, and that body's fish quality will increase. Mercilessly slice his belly open, and get an item from the flotsam pool that has high quality or value (do items have a defined 'value' attribute? Credo quests seem to generally start asking for more expensive items the further you get into the credo.) Feed him to a bear and the bear will become your bff. It could also be neat if there was some way to extract fishing knowledge from it "You sense that you would catch more Trout here if you used Hemp Fibre as line." and so on, but that probably falls under a greater fishing revamp.

okay this is a fucking cool idea.

Instead of all the shit with slicing this fish tho maybe you sometimes catch a fish that is actually like a questgiver or something, and it can bless the area you return it to after completing its quest or something like that, be it with quality or setting a fish type permanently. Fishing irl is all about secret fishing spots and tips from gurus right? Would be fucking cool to get fishing spot tips from mysterious quest givers and shit.

weirs or spawning beds would be cool too, but maybe only if they give a small percent increase, maybe it could be like some sort of realm statue thing that gets built in water even?

[Nek]

God I wish fishing wasn't shit. Feels so unrewarding currently but has the potential to be great.

I had a similiar idea some months ago: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=61776

basically fishing should scale with how often you fish an area, perhaps via quests or otherwise 'learned' knowledge

I like this idea in particular.
Fish quality in general should just scale higher though. It peaks too low and there's too much low as fuck q shit out there which is outclassed severely by other food sources which take less effort to make.

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

okay, this is a fucking cool idea.

Instead of all the shit with slicing this fish tho maybe you sometimes catch a fish that is actually like a quest giver or something, and it can bless the area you return it to after completing its quest or something like that, be it with quality or setting a fish type permanently. Fishing irl is all about secret fishing spots and tips from gurus right? Would be fucking cool to get fishing spot tips from mysterious quest givers and shit.

I like the idea of quest givers you have to catch or do something to get a chance to interact with.

[Jackwolf]

I like this idea a lot tbh.

Instead of all the shit with slicing this fish tho maybe you sometimes catch a fish that is actually like a questgiver or something, and it can bless the area you return it to after completing its quest or something like that, be it with quality or setting a fish type permanently. Fishing irl is all about secret fishing spots and tips from gurus right? Would be fucking cool to get fishing spot tips from mysterious quest givers and shit.

I am 1000% for more interesting types of quests and off the wall things, even if its just getting a few random fishing tips from a duck or a cattail or fish.


Would be cool for some druidic magic type stuff with the lakes and rivers.

[2d0x]

An interesting offer, but the most valuable is the opportunity to make your choice:

...Toss him back into a body of water, and that body's fish quality will increase. Mercilessly slice his belly open, and get an item from the flotsam pool that has high quality or value...

Good branching.