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Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: Rageburst on December 08, 2003, 12:52:30 am

Title: Fishing skill
Post by: Rageburst on December 08, 2003, 12:52:30 am

If fishing becomes a skill, I would like it to be more fun than clicking the mouse button until a fish bites.

Fish skill: affects the QUALITY of fish that you can capture. (For example, in order of increasing quality: tadpole, catfish, salmon, shark,....)

My idea is the following: fish \"population\" changes randomly after a certain duration. This just means that the FREQUENCE/CHANCE of catching a fish is better at certain locations at different times!

You can choose to fish at docks, but if the \"population\" is set at low, then you will likely catch fewer fishes.

However, it would be possible to ride on a boat, and choose where you want to fish. The boat is manned by an npc, and you can tell him/her to drive to a specific fishing spot. All you really need is one person to pay the npc to drive the boat, but you can have many people hitch a ride on it. If anyone wants to go back to shore, simply tell the npc (you still have to pay to go back to the sea/lake).

There will typically be around say a dozen fishing boats scripted to move in specific locations. That should be enough for everyone.... and there are also docks or shores that might be in a fishing location.

If a location sucks, then you can tell the npc to move the boat to another location.

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Post by: Kixie on December 08, 2003, 12:59:12 am

maybe we could have a simpler version of the fishing game used in zelda 64. that was almost a fun little mini game. if we had a smaller version of it on planeshift that would be pretty cool 8)

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Post by: frumbert on December 08, 2003, 01:00:35 am

can you sell the fish? eat the fish? trade fish? do fish go off if you leave them in your pack for a day? (ooh, the smell!)

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Post by: Natrina on December 08, 2003, 01:16:58 am

There will be fishmen (anglers I think is the right word) so even if you dont have the skill, you (supossely) will have to fish or else whats a fishman for?

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Post by: Rageburst on December 08, 2003, 01:38:51 am

I was thinking fish can be a form of food you can cook. The better the fish, the better the bonus it brings when eating it.

More bonus attributes can be obtained by cooking it.

It can also be a form of income... sell to npc or something.

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Post by: Draklar on December 08, 2003, 07:05:20 am

hey now you want magic fish or something? ;) :P
Only bonus you should get is that you won\'t get sick ;)

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Post by: Natrina on December 08, 2003, 12:55:36 pm

Probably, but you can\'t cook it yourself, there\'s a cooker job for it.

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Post by: frumbert on December 09, 2003, 09:17:45 am

so if there\'s fishing, will there also be other agricultural activities such as growing gm corn, hunting deer, slaugtering cows for hamburgers?