[Important] Changes To Special Fishing Area Quests
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What are Special Fishing Areas (SFAs)?
Special Fishing Areas are the fishing areas on each island that you can gain access to for a limited time by completing a quest (for example: Crystal Mines on Port Jackson).
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Current Problems With SFAs
- Not Well Balanced- Completing the quests gets a bit tedious overtime, as they arenāt that short. Weāve increased the amount of time you can stay in an area before it closes to 60 minutes. Although that helps somewhat, itās still not enough.
- Donāt Save Across Servers- We wanted to make these quests multiplayer, so that you can work together with friends to complete them. The downside however, is because this is a multiplayer quest, it needs to be server specific and therefore does not save for you if you join another server.
- Hard- Some of the puzzles (such as 3x3 portrait puzzle) & parkour are hard for new players. Again, this goes back to the first problem of not being well balanced.
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Proposed Solution
Make Quests Really Short
We'll update the quest on each island to be a lot shorter. This will make the quests much faster to complete and thus more balanced in comparison to how long you can fish in the special fishing area. For the most part, we can shorten each quest without throwing away a lot of content. If a quest has multiple puzzles/obbies to complete, you'd only have to complete one of them each time. Each time you go through the quest, it'll randomly select which puzzle you'd need to complete. Some of the other content could be re-used in quests in future updates.
You can see the proposed solutions for each island in detail below.
Remove "Multiplayer Mode" And Save Progress Across Servers
Because the quests will be a lot shorter now, there's no reason for them to be multiplayer. You'll still be able to play through them alongside your friends. It's just that everything you do will be specific to you (like it used to be in the old quests before the Remaster). This will also make it possible for us to save your progress on a quest, so if you join another server you can continue were you left off. When you complete a quest, you'll have access to the fishing area on any server until the time runs out for you.
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Conclusion
We believe that these changes will solve the problems mentioned at the beginning of this post and make special fishing areas a much more fun experience!
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Spynaz
In regards to multiplayer mode, I have seen several comments which are against it because they assume it is going to be too hard for them to complete it on their own.
Here is the thing about the current multiplayer quests. All of the puzzles/obbies that you currently do aren't exactly "multiplayer". You don't complete them with another player. Let's take the lockpick puzzle for example. Do you complete the lockpick puzzle with another player? No, you complete it on your own. What about an obby? Sure, you may be jumping across leafs with your friends, but don't exactly need them in order to complete it. The "multiplayer" part of the quests comes from a group of players being able to complete different puzzles at the same time in order to complete the quest faster. This is great if the quest is long.
But we are talking about making quests
very short
here. If you look at the flowchart for each island above, you will see that, for the most part, you'll only need to complete 1 puzzle or obby every time. This will make the quest MUCH shorter. There is no need to make it "multiplayer" if you only need to do one thing. For example, let's take a look at the Ancient Shores flowchart. You'll only need to complete the pressure plate puzzle OR 1 of the light puzzles each time. These puzzles are something you do on your own either way. It's not something that you can complete with another player. So there is no point in making it be multiplayer.I hope this clears it up for some of you!
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Jesse Beckmann
Spynaz could you make fishing hotspots in this area? I was fishing in facility x02 for 1 hour and only caught 1 neon! I would love to see hotspots in special fishing areas
school spullen
Jesse Beckmann: agreed.
šFoxeven
Jesse Beckmann: Hotspots give you rarity chance, not mutation chance.
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Leah
I have to continually keep re-doing my quests. Especially the Ancient Shores quest. I just want to be able to fish at the secret Ancient shore location without having to re-do the Lost Ark quest a million times. It should be a one and done thing. I donāt want to have to keep doing it because it sucks having to redo it EVERY. TIME.
legobuilderfactory
This is not a bug and the devs said they are gonna make the quest easier to do
Spynaz
inĀ progress
Spynaz
planned
school spullen
what? why noooooo?
school spullen
so you only want others to do it and u never do it urself. bc if u did it urself u wanted this update
school spullen
so u dont give others an easier time bc u are so EGOISTIC?
school spullen
do something urself and learn to work.
school spullen
what lvl are u? lvl 6? oh WOW what high. now stfu bc i am lvl 784
school spullen
now silence bc u know i am right? thats what i thought.
school spullen
hmmm. why do i know this is cap? liar. nobody likes lairs. thats why u dont have friends.
Lyas
school spullen: he aint liar ok, he has more friends than you and he is right its a fishing game and you shouldnt do quest over and over ag or have to do it when its to hard for someone
Tygosnel
Fix the alien remember thingy from the pharoah's dunes quest it keeps bugging
Tommy
I LOVE the desert puzzle. i wanted to say that maybe you can do a "hard mode" that dosent give extra rewards! it would be very fun for those who just want a challenge.
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James H
I personally donāt like the new SFA quest stuff that you guys added to the game. I know that you listed some other things that could probably be added to the game to make the quests shorter or easier to do. But eventually Itāll get boring doing the same quests over and over again just to unlock certain areas to fish in and it doesnāt even matter what the reset timer is set to. It just wonāt be fun redoing that stuff anymore. At least for me it wouldnāt be that fun. But if a lot of people love the idea to redo quests to unlock areas after each timer reset then Iām perfectly fine with just staying outside areas that donāt need a SFA quest completed multiple times. Thatās fine with me. This is just my opinion.
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