Fishing - how to shake things up

Winterpsy · July 2015

With this perfect roe coming to consoles it's a motivation to start fishing again. Did spent sadly too much time with it already , and I must say, it's terrificly boring.

There's another aspect of the game, with which it could be combined smoothing to incentivise fishing a bit, or at least make it less boring with naught but a tiny development. That is: Lore and books. I love those, but mostly I either go and get the action or read. And I have the same ammount of time to be divided between the two.

Why not combine fishing in game with reading all those lovely lore books in game? You activate the fishing spot and get an option to pick a book (once you have got the option to have them stored you know how...).

And while you are paging the book and reading, you can easily slam the button when the controller is buzzing that you caught something. Dont think it should be much work for the developers, but with that lovely little addition likely we'd see more Master Angler titles around.

Keep_Door · July 2015

screw that just add like little minigames like tetris or bubble breaker.

when you cast out your charchter pulls out his cell phone and loads up a game.

Pangnirtung · July 2015

You find fishing boring? Try fishing in Cyrodiil where you are constantly looking over your shoulder.

It's part of the Master Angler achievement.

BTW sometimes the times between catches seems too long. Maybe ZOS could shorten them a bit?

Forestd16b14_ESO · July 2015

Fish naked..... or with fire balls

charisma316 · July 2015

you can shake deez nutz

KaleidoscopeEyz · July 2015

Pangnirtung wrote: »

You find fishing boring? Try fishing in Cyrodiil where you are constantly looking over your shoulder.

It's part of the Master Angler achievement.

BTW sometimes the times between catches seems too long. Maybe ZOS could shorten them a bit?

Take a buddy, group up and set up to look over each other's shoulders. I could see how your issue would be a pain though.

Banky71 · July 2015

We should have the ability to drink while fishing.

KaleidoscopeEyz · July 2015

Banky71 wrote: »

We should have the ability to drink while fishing.

Mass quantities of mead should lead to me hooking my elf buddy in his giant pointy ears.

Banky71 · July 2015

KaleidoscopeEyz wrote: »

Banky71 wrote: »

We should have the ability to drink while fishing.

Mass quantities of mead should lead to me hooking my elf buddy in his giant pointy ears.

Fishhooked!!!

Acrolas · July 2015

When I'm fishing I snapchat pictures of my character fishing to my fiance.
And then some lame text like, "You're still the perfect catch."

Take that, Julien Rissiel.

Zusia211 · July 2015

There isn't a way to fix fishing. It is a boring process that doesn't really have a way to fix it.

KaleidoscopeEyz · July 2015

Zusia211 wrote: »

There isn't a way to fix fishing. It is a boring process that doesn't really have a way to fix it.

That's the spirit. Lesson learned. Never try.

Saucy_Jack · July 2015

Since roe and fish are cooking ingredients, fishing "nodes" should be included under the master gatherer perk - if you've got that passive, the time it takes from cast to reel should be halved. I know it's randomized, but for the sake of argument:

Let's say when you cast the line, a random function is called to determine how long it'll be before you reel the fish in. Let's call that result "Reeltime".

It couldn't be that hard to code in something like "if mastergatherer=true, reeltime=(reeltime/2)", could it?