Was hoping to raise the attention to the Leisure of fishing and suggest options for AFK mechanics and Sport Fishing.
There are many things people need to do in their daily life and not all of them are planned, from guests to emergencies and all the ones in-between.
So offering a game play alternative for people who want to be playing the game but can't and remembering the amount of time people need to spend to sit down and enjoy themself.. its just nice to come back to your device and see your character doing something you wish you had the time for, and then see in your inventory you may have a few items that you could sell to other players or do yourself that is different from just grinding out skill.
Picture this..
Sitting back in your chair with your rod in its holster, an esky full of ice and drinks, a can of drink in hand, a packet of potato chips.. and just mother nature and her bitch sister "Time", waiting around for your rod line to twitch and reel in.
Throwing out a bunch of suggestions now:
Changing all water to be fishable without emptying the resource node for Hours instead of charges, so no need to move every few minutes and lets people deal with real life without worry.
Adding Sport fishing for Active playing, with unique objects in water to fish from if you are running around beaches, rivers, lakes, ponds.
Adding AFK fishing possibilities that people can leave their character online and unattended catching fish slowly and regenerating their Hunger without needing to eat making it seem like the character is capable of sustaining itself as-if the player was controlling it.
Adding 2 types of Fishing types:
Freshwater (inland fishing).
Saltwater (ocean fishing).
Adding the Mystery of Activity on the Ocean like: Boats, Pirates and Monsters which takes up a huge part of the world that is untouched.
Adding "SOS Bottles" as a chance to be caught while fishing, that have quests or treasure chests maps.
Quests to rescue people that were lost at sea and when you double click the bottle it tells you-you need to take the bottle to the Authorities within a time limit gaining positive alignment or waiting the time out for a body to wash up on shore that you can loot which lowers your Alignment or criminal.
Treasure Chest Maps would need a Shovel to dig at the X marks the spot on the map.
Maps for Locations for Special water fish guarding treasure, the white whale, the kraken, the leviathan.. etc.
Maps for Locations for Special Caves of hiding monsters with treasure.
Adding Multiple types of Shipwrecks as Sport Fishing spots along ocean water, that delete after its depleted.
Make the loot from these fishing locations fun.
Can obtain unique currency for buying stuff at the Dock NPC's.
Adding Large Bones like a giant dead ocean animal washed ashore with the same effects as Shipwrecks.
Adding Marsh/Swamp with the same effects as Shipwrecks.
Swirling/Disturbed water with the same effects as Shipwrecks.
DOCKS
Can deliver SOS Bottles to for quests.
Water Police locations.
Add places where they have Fishing NPC's that you can sell your Fish and Loot to.
Fish now have a new stat of "Size" added to their tooltips (it shouldnt matter what type of fish determines size - anything can be any size for fun).
Size of fish doesnt make any different to the cooking or eating stamina benefits.
Selling Large fish to Dock NPC's will add you to their World Record, that is a UI window list of all active Players who Fish aswell as the funny sizes of the fish they sold (basically a list of all players who AFK fish).
Currency from Dock NPC's is unique and can only be used with the DOCK NPC's to buy more fishing stuff or Fishing unique sets and gear that cannot be crafted, like Harpoons or BearClaws.
Purchasable boats if that is ever a cool thing added to Dransik.
The possibilities are far more than what i have brought up, but i should stop talking so others can have their say.
Was hoping to raise the attention to the Leisure of fishing and suggest options for AFK mechanics and Sport Fishing. There are many things people need to do in their daily life and not all of them are planned, from guests to emergencies and all the ones in-between. So offering a game play alternative for people who want to be playing the game but can't and remembering the amount of time people need to spend to sit down and enjoy themself.. its just nice to come back to your device and see your character doing something you wish you had the time for, and then see in your inventory you may have a few items that you could sell to other players or do yourself that is different from just grinding out skill.
Picture this..
Sitting back in your chair with your rod in its holster, an esky full of ice and drinks, a can of drink in hand, a packet of potato chips.. and just mother nature and her bitch sister "Time", waiting around for your rod line to twitch and reel in.
Throwing out a bunch of suggestions now:
Adding 2 types of Fishing types:
Adding the Mystery of Activity on the Ocean like: Boats, Pirates and Monsters which takes up a huge part of the world that is untouched.
Adding "SOS Bottles" as a chance to be caught while fishing, that have quests or treasure chests maps.
Adding Multiple types of Shipwrecks as Sport Fishing spots along ocean water, that delete after its depleted.
Adding Large Bones like a giant dead ocean animal washed ashore with the same effects as Shipwrecks.
Adding Marsh/Swamp with the same effects as Shipwrecks.
Swirling/Disturbed water with the same effects as Shipwrecks.
DOCKS
The possibilities are far more than what i have brought up, but i should stop talking so others can have their say.