The rare books are simply an in game way of knowing which fish are which and where to catch them.
I think people are getting them more frequently than I had intended. We just increased the chance to get power scrolls for pub 69, that will effectively decrease the chance to get books.
Thank you all for fishing!
Well, thank you for the informations and the fixes !
We still have unresolved issues, though, can you please address these concerns also ?
Multi-orders
Currently, it is not possible to play fishing quests having multi-orders since if one has a pending order being worked on, and takes another order, if the second order has the same type of fish/crab/lobster of the first one this is considered by the engine as a "refused order" (which is not, it is only being worked on...) and the player takes a reputation penalty loss with the second order same type of fish being lowered to a 5 quantity (thus lowering the chances at a better reward).
Are you aware of this ? What about a fix ?
Reputation loss for players who completed a great number of fishing orders
You have mentioned a bug hitting those players who have complete a high number of fishing orders. The higher number of quests they have completed, it seems, the bigger is the reputation loss they get hit from, it seems.
Any news on this fix ?
Fishermen at 105 skill not capable of earning a 110 powerscroll
Since dungeon fish orders only start at 106 skill, currently fishermen are stuck to having only the possibility to get a 110 powerscroll through the binding of 8x 105s.
This, since in order to gain a 110 as a drop it is necessary to turn in orders containing dungeon fish but they only get offered when one is 106 skill in fishing. It sounds a catch-22 type of issue : to get a 110 PS one needs to get to 106 skill but it is not possible to get there without a 110 PS in the first place !!
The only work around, as of now, is getting 8x 105s and bind them into a 110 but at that point, it is not clear why a player would want to get a 110 as a drop when one has already gotten one through the 8x 105s binding......
Are you aware of this ? Any chance for a fix ?
Lobsters and crabs are counted 2x or 0.5 ??
You mention in your post that lobsters and crabs are counted 2x. Since several fishermen claim that, according to their fishing orders empyrcal experience they have hints they are counted as x0.5, was the code verified for lack of errors or bugs so that we can be 100% sure that lobsters and crabs are counted 2x and not 0.5 ?
I am asking, because inadvertedly somewhere there can be a "/2" rather than a "*2"....
Can you please let us know ?
Where are the 115s
Are these even in the system ? We have had reports of players getting 120s but so far, noone on Stratics has reported getting a 115. Do they even exist for fishing ?
"Rare" books: can they be made usefull ?
We understand you upped the PS drop rate which should reduce the books drop rate but the thing is, that many among us
already wasted high end fishing orders (which means wasting many, many fish, crabs and lobsters) to get multiple copies of these books. Since you are making regular crabs and lobsters usefull using them in new cooking recipes or as Library Collectibles turn ins, can you please do the same for these books and make them useable in some ways ?
Of course, considering their different rarity......
I mean, if a Book n.3 has the same chance of dropping as a powerscroll, if you will use it as an item that can be turned in for Library Collectibles it should carry way more points in value than a Book n.1.
Thanks.