Scout Archive

purplewarrior,

that's great feedback, I wish I had your perspective there when this was discussed. Actually, when I talked with K about fishing he *did* use UO as an example, and was wondering "why is it popular there and not here?". Someone else suggested that they improve the fishing interface and he agreed, and a couple other people made the comment that "fishing was boring you need to spice it up" or something to that effect, and his response was "have you ever fished in RL?" lol. I have never played UO though, so I could not comment on why it would be more popular there than here.

K also said something about there being a desire to add "mini games" in places where there were tasks generally seen as boring. He used the example of dig-dug for surveying, but I think he may have been half-joking about that. Hard to tell.

Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 06-07-2004 07:52 AM

Not much of a scout myself, but I was an avid fisherman in UO, the system they had there was awesome, people used to design entire templates around the idea of fishing. The reasons why it was so good was as follows:

1. No fiddling around with the tug this way and that way, just put the rod in and wait (it is supposed to be relaxing after all).

2. You had a boat.

3. There was a fair amount of danger fishing and some fairly hard mobs had to be fought

4. At Gramdmaster level, you could find treasure maps (MIBs), you had to goto the location which you did by sailing, then retrieve a chest from the ocean floor (Always filled with loads of goodies and cash).

5. Some items could only be gotten through fishing most were used to decorated player houses and such.

Although Purple warrioir said most of these things, that was why UO fishing was great

Delta, this could be an excellent way to spice up the Survival and Frontiering skilltrees. Adding in things like a speeder cert that only works over water(open topped, and you can fish from it), fishing yield mods, frequency of catch mods, and at Frontiering 4 you could grant access to a quest that gives a badge and title of "Grandmaster Fisherman"

I never played Uo so i can't speak there.. but how about making more stats on the fish you catch (like the fishermens name) I knwo the code is there if i amke a piece of armor my name stays on it. Also how about size and weight of fish -- I would love to have fishing tournaments and guild trophey room -- instead my fiend ust went to a bazzar and bought them -- and says he couaght them.. stupid.

I also agree how about including fish in future ingredients for items. If you can make them a comodity people are more likely to at least try it.

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DeltaXi65 wrote:

MM,

C'mon - fishing is one of the best excuses to drink beer out there.

Others include...

It's -Insert day of the week here-,

Someone is having a birthday somewhere on the planet right now,

It's raining,

It's not raining,

It's 5 o'clock somewhere (good song),

And my personal favorite: Why not?

B

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It's also a great to use up all the bait I get as a result of foraging for food, my main source of buffs (I'm the definition of "Un-uber"!)....