sobrique
Newcomer
Running unmodded:
I've noticed that targeted bait doesn't seem to work well with the fishing pot skills.
I tried this by using the statue to respec to get Trapper/Mariner.
The latter removes junk, and according to the wiki all 'catch' now has a 14% chance.
What I expected was that Lobster Targeted Bait would improve catch rates, but it didn't - with 200 pots I routinely caught even distributions of catch with deluxe bait or targeted bait. And the deluxe bait had higher quality, meaning that it was a higher value catch, even without having to factor in 'spending' a lobster for 5-10 targeted bait.
Spending 27 lobsters to bait 200 pots and then only catching around 28 is also... well, a waste. Where if it tripled the catch rates as the wiki suggests, you'd be expecting to see a _net_ profit of 2x catch.
Although on a related note - it's disappointing that 'Mariner' means you don't have 25% or 50% profit on fish sales - would it be sensible to have a bonus to 'fishing pot' fish value just so I'm not stocking up, smoking the fish, but then swapping the skills to do a bulk sale very occasionally, because +50% profit is hard to pass up especially with a smoker.
I'd also suggest that 'targeted' bait should also give higher quality fish the same way Deluxe does.
I've noticed that targeted bait doesn't seem to work well with the fishing pot skills.
I tried this by using the statue to respec to get Trapper/Mariner.
The latter removes junk, and according to the wiki all 'catch' now has a 14% chance.
What I expected was that Lobster Targeted Bait would improve catch rates, but it didn't - with 200 pots I routinely caught even distributions of catch with deluxe bait or targeted bait. And the deluxe bait had higher quality, meaning that it was a higher value catch, even without having to factor in 'spending' a lobster for 5-10 targeted bait.
Spending 27 lobsters to bait 200 pots and then only catching around 28 is also... well, a waste. Where if it tripled the catch rates as the wiki suggests, you'd be expecting to see a _net_ profit of 2x catch.
Although on a related note - it's disappointing that 'Mariner' means you don't have 25% or 50% profit on fish sales - would it be sensible to have a bonus to 'fishing pot' fish value just so I'm not stocking up, smoking the fish, but then swapping the skills to do a bulk sale very occasionally, because +50% profit is hard to pass up especially with a smoker.
I'd also suggest that 'targeted' bait should also give higher quality fish the same way Deluxe does.