Would you like these improvements to fishing?

Blackwidow · July 2014

Fishing ideas:

Allow first person mode.
Make it a mini game. Right now it is just boring, IMHO.
Let us find a super rare motif (Sea Scale)
Let us find a super rare magical mount
Make the fish usable for cooking.
I want to find trophies I can mount in my house.
Let us find quests in bottle, boxes, etc.
I want to find a cursed person who was turned into a fish that gives an epic quest.
Bait should not take up inventory space or let us find/make a fishing bait box that holds all bait and fish.
Let us be able to do emotes and other small things while fishing.
When we are fishing, give us the option to be sitting in a laid back chair, drinking a beer.
Have fishing contests. This would go great with other contests like traveling carnivals, or sports events.

Have a nice day.

EDIT:FYI, the mount does not have to be water based.

It could be an idol that summons a mount.

It could be a lost personal object that sets you on a quest to a powerful mage, and when you get there, he gives you a special mount for the reward.

Could be a bag of bones, when opened, it makes an undead mount.

Thanks!

Phantax · July 2014

•1- Yes don't see why not
•2 - Needs more explaination
•3- Yes
•4 - Hell Yes
•5- Definitely yes, (it should be like that anyway ZOS just got it wrong again)
•6- Unsure
•7 - Great Idea +1
•8 - Funny and I like it
•9 - Agreed ! (spare armour, costumes and other stuff too)
•10- Yes (again something ZOS should have done from start)
•11 - Yes.. but wouldn't that be a mead?

Gedalya · July 2014

Yes to quite a few of these; mega kudos for ideas.

Blackwidow · July 2014

Phantax wrote: »

•2 - Needs more explaination

I really don't know. Something with a bobble in the water and a small timer bar on the screen. Then have a red area on the bar and a green area.

When the bobble goes under the water, try to pull up on the bar when the bar is in the green.

Honestly, any good ideas would be appreciated.

Phantax · July 2014

@Zenimax @ZOS_MattFiror @ZOS_PaulSage
This is the kind of thread you guys need to take notice of. And as Hugo correctly stated -

ZOS_HugoP wrote: »

And indeed, little things like that can make the immersion outstanding in a MMO.

ESO needs more of this 'if' you want it to be #1

ZOS_MichelleA · July 2014

Hi there, folks. Thanks for the great, constructive thread! That's one epic mount suggestion. o_O

Blackwidow · July 2014

ZOS_MichelleA wrote: »

Hi there, folks. Thanks for the great, constructive thread! That's one epic mount suggestion. o_O

Thanks.

Any chance you guys are doing anything like this? I know you guys said you were working on improving fishing.

Alphashado · July 2014

I would LOVE to see fishing more rewarding. Even a small chance to fish up an old legendary weapon however small would be incentive. But you could hide all kinds of goodies in the depths of Tamriel's water like costumes, pets, unique crafting traits, dead bodies lol. The possibilities are endless.

Blackwidow · July 2014

Alphashado wrote: »

I would LOVE to see fishing more rewarding. Even a small chance to fish up an old legendary weapon however small would be incentive. But you could hide all kinds of goodies in the depths of Tamriel's water like costumes, pets, unique crafting traits, dead bodies lol. The possibilities are endless.

Yeah, that would be cool.

wayfarerb14_ESO · July 2014

If we pull up a dead body, can I....can I poke it with a stick?

crislevin · July 2014

He'll Yeah for all ideas, it's useless and boring now, the trophy I puked also does nothing when clicked.

Kaynlor · July 2014

Blackwidow wrote: »

Fishing ideas:

Allow first person mode. Yes please.

Make it a mini game. Right now it is just boring, IMHO. Good idea, maybe hold lmb while in green, release in red, and too much red breaks your line. Different fish = different difficulty.

Let us find a super rare motif (Sea Scale) Like Moermer, Sload, Ancient Nede

Let us find a super rare magical mount okay

Make the fish usable for cooking. Definitely

I want to find trophies I can mount in my house. That sounds good

Let us find quests in bottle, boxes, etc. That would be cool!

I want to find a cursed person who was turned into a fish that gives an epic quest.Eh

Bait should not take up inventory space or let us find/make a fishing bait box that holds all bait and fish.Need a tackle box

Let us be able to do emotes and other small things while fishing. okay

When we are fishing, give us the option to be sitting in a laid back chair, drinking a beer.Can I do that now?

Have a nice day.

Riptide · July 2014

Lots of fun ideas here.

This is a beautiful game engine, with beautiful water, etc. I too would like to see fishing fleshed out. Lots of opportunity here.

Great post.

Tabbycat · July 2014

I would just be happy if I could use the fish I catch in fishing recipes and if the green and blue fish would actually show up in my inventory. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.

TaintedSoul · July 2014

Awesome Ideas. I like them all. Any of of them would make me start fishing. Tried Fishing in the first week of launch. I thought fishing was lacking and hoped to pick it up if improved in the future.

Night_Watch · July 2014

Blackwidow wrote: »

Fishing ideas:

Allow first person mode. Yes!

Make it a mini game. Right now it is just boring, IMHO. Not sure - kinda like it as is in that respect.

Let us find a super rare motif (Sea Scale) Maybe! Not sure what motif though.

Let us find a super rare magical mount Nah! Whats the point of a water mount with no significant water based content? Another rare, land based mount could be good though.

Make the fish usable for cooking. Abso[freaking]lutely!

I want to find trophies I can mount in my house. House? You have a house? How do we get one?

Let us find quests in bottle, boxes, etc. Fished up quests! Nice! This could work well if not over the top so to say. Ah! To catch a golden fish! Be careful what you lust for!

I want to find a cursed person who was turned into a fish that gives an epic quest. That's an incredible idea Mr Limpet

Bait should not take up inventory space or let us find/make a fishing bait box that holds all bait and fish. This one agrees!

Let us be able to do emotes and other small things while fishing. Not sure of this! (imagines dancing fisherfolk!)

When we are fishing, give us the option to be sitting in a laid back chair, drinking a beer. Yeah! Laid back with a nice mug of ale, mead or non alcoholic beverage for those that do not partake!

Have a nice day.

Some good ideas there!

Pupsy · July 2014

These are some great ideas. Why I can see the mount not ever being put in because they really push the imperial edition on players for a mount, a bunch of the other stuff is cool. +1 bump!

Blackwidow · July 2014

If more people fished, these ideas would be more popular.

Rev Rielle · July 2014

In relation to 2.
In LotRO (Lord of the Rings Online) we were able to see what others caught, and as a result we would make fishing contest games. E.g. who caught the most of fish X in 20 minutes, or who caught the greatest weight of salmon (as they came in sizes from 1 up to 50 pounds). This was a lot of fun, and whilst not technically a 'mini game', the mechanics were such that they allowed us to come up with our own games. It was a lot of fun and quite popular. We'd also hold contests in various parts of Middle-earth as the fish caught varied from place to place.

It would be nice if somehow we could do a similar thing in ESO.

hk11 · July 2014

If they could just sort of mirror world of warcraft's fishing, it would be perfect.

Skill levels, titles, weekly fishing competitions, fishing up pets, food, whats not to love?

Blackwidow · July 2014

Rev Rielle wrote: »

In relation to 2.
In LotRO (Lord of the Rings Online) we were able to see what others caught, and as a result we would make fishing contest games. E.g. who caught the most of fish X in 20 minutes, or who caught the greatest weight of salmon (as they came in sizes from 1 up to 50 pounds). This was a lot of fun, and whilst not technically a 'mini game', the mechanics were such that they allowed us to come up with our own games. It was a lot of fun and quite popular. We'd also hold contests in various parts of Middle-earth as the fish caught varied from place to place.

It would be nice if somehow we could do a similar thing in ESO.

/awesome

I'll add that to the list.

badmojo · July 2014

The contents of a wet gunny sack should include just about any type of loot. I don't like that it only contains 'Heavy Sack' loot right now.

Some of the rare items we could find could be tied to fishing like...a fishing costume, maybe a nicer fishing rod, bait bucket(contains lots of bait), message in a bottle, etc.

I'm all for making fishing better, but I don't really want to make it too unrealistic at the same time.

kip_silverwolf · July 2014

Blackwidow wrote: »

Fishing ideas:

[*] When we are fishing, give us the option to be sitting in a laid back chair, drinking a beer.

By Oblivion YES!!

Or even - laying back in a comfy chair, beer in one hand, sweet roll in the other, fishing pole balanced between the knees!!

Tabbycat · July 2014

kip_silverwolf wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

Fishing ideas:

[*] When we are fishing, give us the option to be sitting in a laid back chair, drinking a beer.

By Oblivion YES!!

Or even - laying back in a comfy chair, beer in one hand, sweet roll in the other, fishing pole balanced between the knees!!

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Blackwidow · July 2014

Tabbycat wrote: »

kip_silverwolf wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

Fishing ideas:

[*] When we are fishing, give us the option to be sitting in a laid back chair, drinking a beer.

By Oblivion YES!!

Or even - laying back in a comfy chair, beer in one hand, sweet roll in the other, fishing pole balanced between the knees!!

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

/awesome

Tonturri · July 2014

I would more enthusiasm for fishing than I ever have before if these changes were made. *sends kittens with pleading eyes to stare at the devs*

Laura · July 2014

I like it all but the mount. I want mounts to stay lore friendly and I can't think of any that would be fished up. Everything else is a great idea.

Fishing in this game is just bad.

KoroLahk · July 2014

Yes. So much yes! If even half of these were implemented I'd go fishing for days.

I tried fishing, I even tried to like it. But I just can't find any incentive to keep doing it (even when my inner completionist screams at me when I walk past a fishing hole.)
Instead I've been stockpiling bait on an alt banker praying one day fishing will be reworked.

Fuzzylumpkins · July 2014

I have to admit, fishing seemed so useless in game, including 6 months of beta pre release I never even tried it. Hm certainly seems like a feature that needs some attention to give it more use and players more of an appeal for doing it.

I did see a fishing trophy once in the guild bank and only thought, "how useless, we cant even mount it or put it in anything like the guild houses in DAoC when you could mount and display trophies from the world.

Alphashado · July 2014

Blackwidow wrote: »

If more people fished, these ideas would be more popular.

If they made some changes like this then more people WOULD fish

Rev Rielle · July 2014

Oh, I just thought of another:

It would nice to see the proper animations of the others (player characters) catching the fish when you're fishing in a group. At the moment you see them cast, then they just 'loose' their line. There is no animation of them actually pulling in their catch (like you see for your own character).

I think this is something that could be looked at, for at the moment when you see someone else fishing, it's just very odd: They're never seen to pull in anything.