There is some good news coming down the pike for those of you who are annoyed by "AFK Fishermen." According to a post on some japanese playonline forum, FFXI is going to modify its fishing to be more like WoW's implementation, incorporating timing into fishing, as well as a few other things.
I read about it on Marissa's fishing forum, and you can read the thread here.
http://www.lisaarndt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3051
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just got done reading a thread posted a few days ago in Square Enix's official developer's forum operated by their OCR (Online Community Relations) team -- the forum is entirely in Japanese and threads are only started by OCR team members but can be responded to.
I took a few minutes to translate the text of the post into English:
SE Development Forum wrote:
Date: 2004/11/30 19:30 JST
Subject: Changes to the fishing system
Poster: Snakeeye
Hello everyone. There is something I would like to announce.
Fishing, which has been periodically added to in stages, is planned to receive it's biggest change so far sometime between the next update through the following update.
Generally speaking, the current system will be modified so that there will be:
- A weakening of what you hook by movements of the fishing rod
- Successfully timed catches
Such simple action-based elements will be implemented into the fishing system.
These changes are being done to reinforce the craft of fishing, which compared to its synthesis counterparts has received fewer changes.
Details will be revealed in update announcements at the time the changes are incorporated. If you have any comments or suggestions for the future of fishing, please use this topic to express your ideas.
Thank you.
Some big changes are on their way!
If you can read Japanese you can read it here, but you must register.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11/devh/ It should be interesting to see its effects. People are viewing it in a few different ways. Since WoW already has fishing bots, it's not sure yet whether or not this change will help remove bots from the FFXI server, or simply require them to change their coding around and only hurt legit fishermen.
If this is implemented and successful, hopefully we can see a reduction in the prices of items on the AH. I still think that people buying gil from members who are quitting is the main cause of price inflation, but I'm sure Port Windurst/Qufim "fishing" is also to blame.
Either way, keep an eye out for an influx of Lu Shang's fishing rod for sale on the AH. hah hah.
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