Saltwater aquariums

[silver sedge]

It would be a whole different thing and i understand it would take so much time but think about it! Imagine the different people from salt water keeping we could bring in and it would just be cool

[lone lotus]

Salt water would be a whooooole separate game :’)

Maybe someday in the far off future, but Fish Game itself isn’t even finished yet, so it’s not really in the cards atm

[rocky finch]

I think once other systems are in place, if modding tools are made available then it could be made into a mod fairly easy, however tedious

[drifting jacinth]

Ah yeah, got here before me lol i just put a whole answer in the other thread

[drifting jacinth]

I mean saltwater and freshwater fish keeping are 2 wildly different experiences idk how easy it would be to just add salt water stuff into the game

Youde have to create like entire systems for certain things, unless ig u just have salt water designed fish in a freshwater tank lol

[silver sedge]

No like you could choose “saltwater” keeper and its liek a “dlc thing”

[drifting jacinth]

Still would need to be at the very least a game mode completely seperate and would need a lot of new stuff to function, it would esentially just be a whole new game anyway and wouldnt make much sense to just cram it in this one

[silver sedge]

Yea

100k for patreon and we get saltwater

[rocky finch]

doing saltwater fish only would be fairly easy, but it would get stale very quickly as anyone who really wants saltwater in game will want growing and fraggable coral, inverts, macro algae, customizable equipment like skimmers, reactors, etc

[lone lotus]

Wouldn’t work. This has already been discussed at length and it would definitely need to be a game on its own.

Better to bake two cookies rather than half baking a stack

[silver sedge]

It has been discussed?

[silver laurel]

way more

[drifting jacinth]

Quite a few times by now lol

[rocky finch]

as a person who has worked full time maintaining reef aquariums, there is so many different factors and things to calculate

[silver sedge]

Ah this is some party pooper behavior

Why does it say OP next to my name

[drifting jacinth]

While its not impossible for a saltwater fish game to come eventually i wouldnt get your hopes up because the devs are very tunnel focused on maintaining and growing this game for the forseeable future

Would be dope but its not really on the table

[lone lotus]

Sometimes being a party pooper is part of our job as a moderator :(

[silver sedge]

No just like it would have been cool

It was just idea

[drifting jacinth]

Thats our only job XD

Fecal matter on the social gathering as one might say

From a saltwater game basically the only thing i would want is an octopus

Gimme octopus game

[rocky finch]

for example, for coral to be able to grow, it needs appropriate light (a system that already exists) but also appropriate water flow, macro nutrients such as Nitrate, and Phosphate, and then other elements like KH, Calcium, and Magnesium, to be maintained at appropriate levels, bearing in mind that there are interactions that occur between these elements, so balancing them more complicated that "raise this and lower this", then we have to consider trace elements, coral nutrition, increasing coral pathogen likelihood when using a UV sterilizer (through dysbiosis, see Salem Clemmens talks on reef builders if you're interested in that), although that can decrease the likelihood of dish getting sick

[drifting jacinth]

I can just imagine the bugs that would come from them being part of the same game too "uh why is there a dead saltwater angelfish floating in one of the stores in my main game"

I think if there was a saltwater fish game they should add mantis shrimp and when you keep them theres a 0.5% chance that at any moment they just punch through glass and u get a death screen saying

GAME OVER

:]