Patch auto fishers

[digital vale]

I know this one will be a little controversial, but in my opinion autofishers add nothing to the game

When I first found out about autofishing, I thought it was pretty cool. Like with autocooking, you can make a machine with wiring that makes long tasks quicker and with less player effort

However, over time it's become apparent to me that autofishers don't add to the game in the same way that autocookers did.

First of all, autofishers are really simple to make. They take literally 4 wiring blocks (a button and 2 transmitters and a door) for a basic one and only a few more blocks to make a loop. So unlike autocookers, there is no initial time investment that goes into creating the machine to make it balanced

Additionally, fishing is rng based and some of the fish (the dragons) are really, really rare. So rare that players will take basically any way they can to make fishing faster to give them better odds, making them more a necessity than a convenience

Finally, it takes away the incentive to engage with the update as intended. Many players have been using autofishers just to "beat the update" for them, which is clearly seen by today's featured tab and literally every wilds lobby (genuinely, I had to lobby-hop through 3 rooms in FACILITY WILDS just to find a room without an auto-fisher)

I don't think this would be a very well-received change, but imo it would encourage people to play the game properly instead of getting someone else with a machine to do it for them

[harsh summit]

Do you remember me from Spike Arena?

[digital vale]

I'm not sure, what's your name in-game?

[harsh summit]

Official Princeton

[digital vale]

Maybe? I'm not sure

Hello anyway

[harsh summit]

I said I’m a big fan

And I’m subbed and I wear black sunglasses and I wear the skater bundle and a red fox hat

[digital vale]

Oh I remember now

[harsh summit]

Yeah, it’s me

[bitter skiff]

Bomb the auto fishers

[tight harbor]

They already made auto fishing slower than fishing normally, so I don't really see why we would need to remove them entirely.

[digital vale]

They did?

[harsh summit]

When I say it to people, I have content creator people just say Put on the star creator badge. I said I can’t. That’s completely different thing.

[tight harbor]

Yeah

[digital vale]

Well that's good I didn't know that, I still think it should be patched though most of my points still stand

[tight harbor]

Takes longer for the fish to bite when on an auto fishing rig

[lofty forum]

nuh uh

[merry tree]

this

it's way less efficient than normal fishing

i use autofishers because i'm there for the collection and not the reeling bit

i'm just lazy bruh let me be lazy 💔

[leaden phoenix]

Don't the auto fishers take longer to catch fish than just normal fishing?

[merry tree]

2.5x longer iirc

[leaden phoenix]

@simple warren you got this, finish typing.

[simple warren]

YES, I HATE it when people paste those in wilds, I'd rather see a pasted in freeblocks or a lag map than one of those

[simple warren]

Thanks :3

[shy yacht]

I don't need autofishers. I have a faster way of doing it: Normally. I can even do it with no bait.

[sonic slate]

i like going to jb's autofishing code and socializing with people there

ik it's kinda specific but thats my reason for not wanting it patched

[simple warren]

So uh, you can do that normally anywhere

?

[sonic slate]

different environments allow for different interactions

earlier people were coming up to my base and saying "Fish or treat" and we'd ragebait people by fishing from outside their base. it was a good time

[merry tree]

i ragebaited by telling people they needed friends, then giving them 'friends' by throwing my dupe fish into their whirlpool thingies

[simple warren]

Ah yes, lazy people around lazy people, who are bored out of their mind because they aren't fishing themselves

So they talk and do random stuff to pass time

[merry tree]

"sitting around doing nothing while getting fish < sitting around doing nothing while getting fish BUT i also reel them in"

it really isn't that different man

you sit around doing nothing either way

you get a bunch of duplicate fish either way

[simple warren]

You don't get the enjoyment and excitement of fishing

[merry tree]

that's subjective

i get enjoyment from collecting

not really reeling

[simple warren]

It's just an afk farm

That isn't enjoyable at all

[merry tree]

okay then why do i enjoy it

[simple warren]

Because you a very lazy >

[merry tree]

so it is enjoyable

i don't like reeling

you're not even fishing dude

you're spinning your wrist in a vr game

[simple warren]

Lmaooooo getting mad about a silly vr game?

[merry tree]

hold on gimme a second to find the ad hominem image

[simple warren]

Ngl, that was a bit rude lmao, sorry

[tepid oriole]

This is such a good idea! I just don't get people who want to finish an update as quickly as possible... IMO that's the OPPOSIYE of what I wanna do, I want to enjoy it! And if you use an auto fisher intending the get the crowns, you did NOTHINH to deserve it. I tried one once (going in with intent to hate on it) and it was completely ahh. I was in there for 5 minutes and caught like 2 fish, it's just boring, impractical, and cheating.

[tepid oriole]

You gotta find ways to make it enjoyable... when I join, I make like entire docks or a fishing house for multiple people! Sometimes the fun isn't spoon fed to you.

[merry tree]

why can't i make houses in autofishers

wouldn't that also solve the same problem of it being boring

[tepid oriole]

Cuz the plot is like 4x4

Atleast in the one I went to buy

[merry tree]

not in autofishes

big enough for a house

[tepid oriole]

Aight but either way

It destroys the purpose of the update

[merry tree]

no it doesn't

[tepid oriole]

IT was supposed to make people want to go out into adventure mode

Most of the maps were dead and each map is full now

Also it just seems very very impractical

And slow

And boring

I just don't see the point

Your just making it worse for urself

[merry tree]

well then don't autofish

simple solution

some people find fun in autofishing

no reason to get rid of that for them

[tepid oriole]

🤨

[merry tree]

❓

[tepid oriole]

I mean if you think about it it is cheating

[tepid oriole]

So I could see them patching or banning them

[merry tree]

it was

which is why it takes 2.5x longer now

according to loaf, at least

[tepid oriole]

And it's still fun???

[merry tree]

yeah

i don't have to sit there at the shore line

i can go away

i prefer that

[tepid oriole]

🤨

Aight

I cant make you change ur mind

[merry tree]

yeah

[tepid oriole]

What ever sinks ur boat

[merry tree]

i genuinely don't get why you have such a problem

[tepid oriole]

It's just an opinion

[tepid oriole]

Called an argument

[merry tree]

and so is mine

what's your point

[tepid oriole]

Were on the same page then

[merry tree]

no?

i still don't get why you have a problem

[tepid oriole]

I still don't see y u have a problem with it being fixed

[merry tree]

because i prefer autofishing

[tepid oriole]

I prefer playing the game

See? On the same page 😃

[merry tree]

mate it's playing the game either way

what do you mean

[tepid oriole]

Like I said, it's your opinion, can't make u change ur mind

[craggy fiber]

i only dislike autofishing becuz they take up spots on the popular

thing

[merry tree]

that'll go away with time

[drifting crane]

true

[tepid oriole]

Specially cuz there's 3 on there rn 😭

[merry tree]

yeah i agree it's kinda bs 😭

[tepid oriole]

Oh gotta go

Have a good day yall!

[merry tree]

toodaloooooo

[solemn lion]

One problem, people will still find a way

[vocal leaf]

“Life finds a way” -that one dude from Jurassic park.

[solemn lion]

real

[digital vale]

Eh, I don't really mind if it comes in a new way it's just that the current one takes like 0 effort to build