So, I have a 120 fisherman, and bought 1,000 charges of bait to catch a Stone Fish. I head off to Papua and have to-date used 700 charges of the bait, but still no Stone Fish! I am wearing the fishing suit, and fishing in deep water. Is this just how it is, or does someone have any suggestions? Thanks!
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[Fishing] Stone Fish
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Sadly that is just how it goes. It was explained to us at one point how the fishing suit added like a .03% chance or some such thing.. and the bait added like a .07% increased chance.... I could be off on those numbers a little because it was a long time ago, but ain't TOO far off on them. Some of the legendary fish take forever to catch. Took my around 16 hours to actually catch a Winter Dragonfish, which was the most difficult one for me so far...
wish ya luck though.
wish ya luck though.
I understand the whole concept of rare but UO takes it way too far. The devs must think that everybody that plays has a lot of time on their hands. In a perfect world I would sit home and play UO all day long. As it stands I have to work, I am starting a small business and I actually enjoy exercising. I am sure many others fit in the same bracket as well.The game is set up to benefit those that play unattended. Sad but true!
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I think that when they came up with the bait some of them were thinking of an additive bonus, but it got implemented as a multiplicative bonus.
So (pulling numbers out of my arse, I don't know the real numbers)
While they think, and most people were expecting, a 0.5% chance increased to 3.5% by a bait bonus of 3%
the actual bonus is 1.03 x 0.5%, resulting in a 0.515% chance.
After all, these were the same devs (not even, really, the current ones, but the ones from a decade ago) that thought that humans had a flat 40% of colored ore, and that the 20% Elf bonus would make it 60%, when in actuality every resource square has its OWN percentage of colored ore, independent of race, and that the elf 20% bonus was multiplying that, so that if a human was 30% colored for a specific spot, the elf would be 36% colored, etc. I don't think any of the current devs were in their current positions when ML, KR and HS were in development.
So (pulling numbers out of my arse, I don't know the real numbers)
While they think, and most people were expecting, a 0.5% chance increased to 3.5% by a bait bonus of 3%
the actual bonus is 1.03 x 0.5%, resulting in a 0.515% chance.
After all, these were the same devs (not even, really, the current ones, but the ones from a decade ago) that thought that humans had a flat 40% of colored ore, and that the 20% Elf bonus would make it 60%, when in actuality every resource square has its OWN percentage of colored ore, independent of race, and that the elf 20% bonus was multiplying that, so that if a human was 30% colored for a specific spot, the elf would be 36% colored, etc. I don't think any of the current devs were in their current positions when ML, KR and HS were in development.