UO Timeline for 2019 : Will it include also FISHING for much needed new content & additions/rework ?

Making the fish pies last a lot longer would make a big difference. Leave the time as is in fel and make the ones in tram last 10 min with a 2 minute cool down.

Pawain said:

Making the fish pies last a lot longer would make a big difference. Leave the time as is in fel and make the ones in tram last 10 min with a 2 minute cool down.

It would not be enough, to my opinion.

Legendary 120 Fishermen also need to be made usefull considering what it takes to get there....

As of now, it basically only is making some Trophies off of Legendary Fish that 120 Fishermen can catch.

Instead, if  "other" features where to be given to being a 120 Legendary Fisherman that were not merely cosmetic but of some practical use, then it would help this profession quite some...

For example, a "starting" point to give some new life and interesting content for Legendary Fishermen could see the Legendary Fish :

- Abyssal Dragonfish
- Black Marlin
- Blue Marlin
- Dungeon Pike
- Giant Samurai Fish
- Golden Tuna
- Kingfish
- Lantern Fish
- Rainbow Fish
- Seeker Fish
- Spring Dragonfish
- Stone Fish
- Winter Dragonfish
- Zombie Fish

Be made possible to yield more then just a Trophy....

For example, the Developers could make these Fish be made possible to be cut in steaks and pies or other eatables to be made from them (more work for Cooking and other Skills, for example Alchemy if drinks could be made from them distilling the juice from the steaks....) which were to provide good and longer lasting BUFFS for characters and also for pets..... of course, being Legendary "rare" Fish hard to be caught and requiring a Legendary 120 Fisherman skill, they should be significant Buffs for quite lengthy times....

I think that such an addition would provide some usefullness for Legendary Fishermen to fish them up, for Chefs or Alchemists and perhaps other skills, to prepare those pies, drinks etc. and then for Warriors to benefit from those buffs !!

As of now, instead, unfortunately, Legendary fish once made into a Trophy its game over...

How many same Trophies does one need of a given type of Legendary fish ??

I think that it is necessary to make what Legendary Fishermen can exclusively fish be more usefull and usable as to become mere Trophies....

My guess is that unless it's in the Jolly Roger update in the winter... probably not. Forgotten Treasures is a revamp of treasure hunting and SOSs, and Forsaken Foes is mainly a revamp of Corgul and Charybdis.

Jolly Roger is the only update where a specific boss or aspect of the game isn't explicitly mentioned.

How many same Trophies does one need of a given type of Legendary fish ??

How many times does the same list of rare fish need to be posted?  Is 3 enough?  It is for me.

I hope the team don't have the same reaction to being nagged as I do.  

@Kyronix any chance we could see 120 Fishing/Tailoring able to craft low level fishing nets ? It would also be nice to see Fabled Fishing nets on Merchant/Dread Pirate ships as rare loot drops. Bait Buckets for holding and displaying baits, perhaps similar to the bookcases, where as you add more to it the graphics changes. Just random Thursday thoughts...

Anything fishing related definitely won't be part of Forgotten Treasures (outside of SoS loot).

Beyond that, fishing is a massive system that would eat up a huge amount of whatever publish it was in.  It's definitely on the radar for the next couple publishes, but the scope of it will range somewhere far short of "major revamp".

I like the idea of being able to craft the fishing nets, even if they were just equivalent to the salvage hooks - it would give fisherpeople another possible revenue stream. Especially if they had a chance of pulling up mib or net carrying mobs (with a bump to the drop rate).

The larger fishing nets (which are currently just deco...or trash points) could also be given some functionality to bring in a larger haul of various fish (and such) at once. Or they could be used to fish up just deco stuff, separate from mib deco.

I don't expect to see updates to fishing until Forsaken Foes at the earliest, though Jolly Roger seems more likely. Especially since the original HS fishing update was coded by a lush  😂 

@Kyronix

Seems like it would be pretty easy to add a bonus to MIB loot based on fishing skill... similar to the luck bonus for a treasure map.  Would be easy to add that as part of the Forgotten Treasures publish.

Faeryl said:

My guess is that unless it's in the Jolly Roger update in the winter... probably not. Forgotten Treasures is a revamp of treasure hunting and SOSs, and Forsaken Foes is mainly a revamp of Corgul and Charybdis.

Jolly Roger is the only update where a specific boss or aspect of the game isn't explicitly mentioned.

Personally, I would see a Fishing revamp well fitting, for example, in the Forsaken Foes section.

Sure, as you say it is focused likely on a revamp of Corgul and Charybdis but, that does not preclude inserting in it also new Fishing stuff....

Also the Jolly Roger part though, could host a Fishing revamp although, Kyronix comment about a serious Fishing revamp taking a considerable manpower was quite a downer, at least for me....

I was really hoping that, after all these Years, something good and significative could be coming as new for Fishing....

The massiveness of the fishing system is part of what needs to be addressed imo. Variety is the spice of life, but do we really need ** 70 ** kinds of fish and 14 lobster/crabs? I would just remove a whole slew of them, especially the ones with repeat artwork, and that alone would greatly simplify the fishing quest system. They would become rare, extinct marine life. The orcs ate them all.

Tanager said:

The massiveness of the fishing system is part of what needs to be addressed imo. Variety is the spice of life, but do we really need ** 70 ** kinds of fish and 14 lobster/crabs? I would just remove a whole slew of them, especially the ones with repeat artwork, and that alone would greatly simplify the fishing quest system. They would become rare, extinct marine life. The orcs ate them all.

Tanager said:

The massiveness of the fishing system is part of what needs to be addressed imo. Variety is the spice of life, but do we really need ** 70 ** kinds of fish and 14 lobster/crabs? I would just remove a whole slew of them, especially the ones with repeat artwork, and that alone would greatly simplify the fishing quest system. They would become rare, extinct marine life. The orcs ate them all.

I personally like the variety of fish. I'd personally just like it if I could get less footwear and if the lobster traps didn't disappear or pull up unnamed crabs/lobsters.

Parnoc said:

Excellent idea and surely that can't be THAT much work, it's only deleting stuff or am I all wrong.  Sure sounds like a great idea to me, the fishing order thing is way way overdone with way too many combos and way too many fish and not to forget the elusive lobster you need.  If they were scaled down like you have suggested that would cure a lot of the pain trying to get the right kind of crab/lobster for that one nice order.

It's only deleting stuff... until you consider that at the very least they'd then have to change the coding for the quests, then rebalance it...

And frankly... what sort of ocean or sea only has a handful of varieties of fish? As I've previously said, I like the variety. Now, if they could do like the did with the rarer fish and make a tool that allows one to track a school of a certain type of fish or lobster and results in a greater chance of catching that type over any other... something like that I could get behind.

Edit: Hell, make it a craftable and allow the player using it to select the fish/lobster/crab type they want to track down.

Petra_Fyde said:

How many same Trophies does one need of a given type of Legendary fish ??

How many times does the same list of rare fish need to be posted?  Is 3 enough?  It is for me.

I hope the team don't have the same reaction to being nagged as I do.  

Tanager said:

The massiveness of the fishing system is part of what needs to be addressed imo. Variety is the spice of life, but do we really need ** 70 ** kinds of fish and 14 lobster/crabs? I would just remove a whole slew of them, especially the ones with repeat artwork, and that alone would greatly simplify the fishing quest system. They would become rare, extinct marine life. The orcs ate them all.