Please Reevaluate the Fish Selling Cooldown

[tame basin]

I have been hearing complaints from people like myself in-game saying the fish cooldown is annoying, should be removed, etc. So, I would like the AC Dev Team to reevaluate the cooldown/limit.
Thank You, JJ

[winged oar]

yes. i've already lost a couple of fish from it because when i hop on to fish, i can often catch upwards of 50-60 in one sitting if there are other people in the lobby to talk with. and it's quite annoying pouring my whole bag out into the tank just for a majority of the fish to not even be accepted

[untold steeple]

The cooldown resets once every hour so all you have to do is wait. Duping is already a problem in this game so this is the best solution

[tame basin]

I understand where you are coming from but usually the cooldown starts after 5 fish which does not seem fair.

[untold steeple]

The cooldown isn’t based on the amount of fish, it’s how many bones you earn from them. If you put two diamond fish into the tank, that adds up to around 8800 bones. If you try to add another diamond fish, it’ll deny it as it goes over 10000 bones, which is what I believe the limit is. You can still put in fish if they don’t exceed the limit

[winged oar]

i was wondering how it worked, i was thinking it was a set amount of fish or something

should definitely still raise it tho, it's annoying having ONLY good fish in your bag, trying to turn them in, and most of them flopping everywhere because the first three fish met the limit

[snow ivy]

Its the worst solution

[untold steeple]

It’s the best because without it, people could easily get one expensive fish and just dupe it over and over again and pour them all into the tank and just avoid the point of fishing

[snow ivy]

heres the thing

people will dupe

get inf money

then realize they are missing out

and quit duping

but at the same time, the economy sucks. and the adventures we have ingame arent even that rewarding

we kinda are forced to dupe

[untold steeple]

You are not forced to dupe. The reward is that the more you go explore, the better materials you get. For example, if you only explore the light forest, you’ll only find mediocre artifacts that don’t sell for much. But if you search dark forest, you’ll come across the haunted mansion. By getting the key, you’ll gain access to a giant core that contains bunches of expensive ores that are worth thousands of nuts. You risk danger to get better rewards. The adventures are rewarding, you just don’t want to take the time to expand them

[snow ivy]

goop building is alot of monry

Money that can only buy you about half a build

either they drop prices or increase pay

[untold steeple]

Or just go to goopfish cave and get goop that way so you can save up your nuts. You could get a full bag of goop with just 10 goopfish and nobody had a problem with that before they added it to shop

[snow ivy]

No not the goop itself, its the items you goop togejer

[untold steeple]

If goop building was cheaper, then people would be inclined to build things like lag machines or just spam explosives and projectiles, making the game worse for everyone

[weary ridge]

This fish selling cooldown is the worst. you're telling me I have to wait an hour just to sell another valuable fish that I catch? It's not validated at all, I put in five fish that are somewhat valuable and then I cannot sell any fish for a full hour whether it's a crapy or a rainbow trout it completely ruins the flow of the game

[untold steeple]

It’s completely validated because it prevents people from just getting one expensive fish, duping it, and just ignoring actually catching fish. If you’ve played this game, you’ve definitely seen someone join a random server with multiple bags of stuff and just dump things like fish for people to sell. This gets rid of the point in fishing since if there was no limit, people could just buy anything they want peopl the fishing store. Just be glad that it resets after an hour and not a day

[weary ridge]

If the limit is around 8000 like you have said, then just three of a somewhat valuable fish completely fill up the limit and then you have all the other fish in your backpack that you've been catching that you cannot sell and if you're going for the leaderboard in the pirate ship, then that means that you cannot participate in that any further until a full hour has passed, which most people don't stay in a server for a full hour

Also yes duping is going to happen, but just because a few people are duping doesn't mean that the whole player base gets punished for it. The sell limit of ruins fishing because you cannot sell any fish that you have caught

Also reporting exists for a reason.

[weary ridge]

To be completely honest, duping does not ruin the point of fishing. If someone sells duped fish, they will run out eventually and they'll have to grind for a lot longer in order to get higher level rods. And also fishing is just fun

[weary ridge]

Also, getting rid of the dupe exploits in the first place is a much better alternative than punishing the entire player base

[untold steeple]

I said that two diamond fish add up to 8000 bones, not that it was the limit. The limit is 10k. I do think that they should change how the leaderboard works so it accounts for the limit

[modern hatch]

Fishing is a fun extra feature that has little to no ties to the rest of the progression. If you want to dupe, that's your choice, but I shouldn't have to be so heavily limited on actual fishing just cuz little Timmy wants to immediately get the best rods (which kinda takes the fun out of it anyways to me)

[untold steeple]

Duping is done by way more than a few people, and methods are easy to learn because of the multitude of YouTube tutorials. The devs try their hardest to patch them, but people will keep finding more and more methods. The stash duping method took months before it was patched with the solution being to make a whole new main the stash machine