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Re: Please Give us some help with the Fishmonger quest
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If so does it matter in which order we hand them in?
It doesn’t matter what order you hand them in.
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How much do each of these actions help/hurt?
Each time you complete an order with a specific fish, the next time you get an order with that fish the quantity will increase by 5 to a max of 20.
Each time you abandon a quest with a specific fish, the next order you get with that fish will be 5 less quantity.
Actually, it appears that it does matter the order, James, and they don't go 10/15/20, then repeat 20, pattern.
The quests go in a 10/15/20 cycle for each fish type (turn in a 10, get a 15 the next time the fish comes up, turn in a 15 get a 20, turn in a 20, and get a 10) and having multiple quests for a fish can result in multiples of 20-count (making a bad situation worse, if you have had one of those streaks where you aren't catching certain types - especially the crustacean types), or possibly other glitches if you have different BODs with different counts of the same fish. Of course, abandoning quests do act the way you describe.
In a way, this can actually allow persons with an amount of patience to "Game" the system, to force certain fish types to go to 20, in the hope they get a 6-parter with all-20s.
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How does the monger decide which quest to give us?
The fish monger chooses randomly between a list of fish based on your fishing skill. The higher your skill, the bigger the list.
For each fish that you have completed an order for, you get a chance to get an order for 2 fish.
For each fish that you have completed an order for twice, you get a chance to get an order for 3 fish.
For each fish that you have completed an order for three times, you get a chance to get an order for 4 fish.
This progresses until you are getting orders for 6 fish.
The number of different fish in the order is always random, the only thing that changes is the odds.
Then there's a "feature" you need to look at. It would appear the number of lines is based on the
percentage of possible fish types you have done the quest for, not the actual number of types. As such, the number in lines take a dive at the point where the Dungeon Fish are added to the possible quests.
I personally just experienced it from hitting 105 skill.
Something about the additions to the number of possible fish types causes the low-line Quests to become MUCH more common, until you fill a bunch of them.
So, you're cruising along, mostly getting 5 & 6 line quests (occasionally a 4), until you hit 105, and suddenly, you're back to 1 and 2 line quests (rarely 3 or 4), all over again, until you've filled quests for the new fish.
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How is the reward for finished quest decided?
There are categories based on order size. There is some overlap, but you get different prizes for a small order than you get for a big order.
The size of the order is weighted depending on whether you are catching shallow water fish (x1), deep water fish(x2), or dungeon fish (x3).
Have you looked into the repeatedly reported bug that the Crustaceans (lobsters & crabs) are being counted as (x1) shallow fish for purposes of the bait container rewards, instead of deep fish (x2) as you've reported in the past? I noticed you failed to assign them a value in this reply. Is this being looked at? Does it affect just the bait rewards, or all rewards?
(It appears from the stated weights, that if a bait reward is indicated, the number of uses in the bait is the total weight of the quest divided by 2 - which is why some people treat the weights as 0.5/1/1.5 instead of 1/2/3 - but in that system the crustaceans are showing up as equivalent of shallow water fish)
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Are they just a useless " you lost the RNG toss prize"?
We realize that the books are dropping more than is appropriate. We want to improve the rarity of books and will be scheduling changes in an upcoming publish - we will let you know more when we have additional details.
One suggestion: as well as making the books more rare, how about having them more rarely be awarded as the special types of book categories from the Axem quests. In other words, the black/First, orange/Limited & white/Collector's edition colors. This would allow the books to be better placed in player-run libraries, where they would match the rest of the material.