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). ____________________________________________ Current Problems With SFAs Not Well Balanced - Completing the quests gets a bit tedious overtime, as they aren’t that short. We’ve increased the amount of time you can stay in an area before it closes to 60 minutes. Although that helps somewhat, it’s still not enough. Don’t 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. ____________________________________________ 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. If these images are too small for you to see on your screen, zoom in on your browser. ____________________________________________ 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! 🔼 Like this idea? Make sure to upvote! 💬 Don't like the idea or want to share your opinion? Post a comment down below.
