Bait Fishing Mod has no effect

[gnormy]

you will note that i was not trying to stack the mods (as that would be pointless). As indicated on my first post - I removed the Brells Fishing Pole and I tested bait with a REGULAR fishing rod equiped.

[Tejaye]

mods

Gnormy...have you received any response from Sony about the Mods on fishing bait having no effect?
I think it is ridiculous that they treat Fishing with such disregard!!
Why give us a Mod on bait....allow us to do combines that create Flies with Mods.....if it doesn't even work?

[Slippyblade]

And the really screwball thing is that this major boo-boo would never have been uncovered without the new UI. Ooops! Yeah, I'm a little bummed about the small fortune I've blown on Catch-a-Lot back when I was a youngling... Oh well.

[Tejaye]

Mod

How can we get Sony to correct this problem? Has anyone tried and/or gotten a response?
Did anyone do a /petition ?
If you do a /bug I hear that you never get a response, at least with /petition you may get one.

[Slippyblade]

If you /petition a bug, you will get a response. But that response will be...

"This is Guide Soandso, can I get some more detail on this bug?"

Then they will add the extra detail to your petition and hit a button that dumps the petition to the EXACT SAME PLACE it goes if you do a /bug yerself.

I was a guide for a while, it's what they do.

[Tejaye]

Bug

Does anyone think that Sony will do something to fix the Bait Mods? am sure its because the ammo slot was never meant for stat increases.....but think they will so something?

[gnormy]

If and when Sony fixes the bait problem. It will be about the bait and not what slot it happens to be in. More then likely, they would use code similiar to how Food/Drink stats are modified....using the first item in inventory. Interestingly there was at one time a food item with stats that fit in the ammo slot and when the item was there, it would loose its stats. I find it far more likely for SOE to "fix" this by taking mod from the first bait found in inventory then ever messing with the ammo slot at all.

[Tejaye]

Mod

As of now Sony still is ignoring this issue. It is a big deal to me since before the UI we didnt know we were getting Fooled.
Why dont they just fix it...i dont understand?

[MerlmanTM]

Are we sure this is a problem. Has anyone tried keeping your tacklebox open while they cast with this bait? Maybe it only works when it is on your line. Course I always use my summoned fishing pole. Guess Ill have to buy a regular one and test this myself.

[Tejaye]

Try

Merl i will check the UI while my line is in the water....unless somebody else reads this first and tries it......let us know.
Otherwise checkin UI while caych-a-lot bait is in water is worth a shot.

[Suani]

I tested the effect of pole and bait on my fishing results in Natimbi. I bought 5 stacks for each combination.

The table shows the result of each cast in terms of crab or tuna pounds. I gave casts that caught nothing or that caught junk a weight in pounds of zero.

The fishing skill modifiers on Brell's Fishing pole and on the Catch-a-Lot bait are so small (3% and 2% respectively) that statistical analysis showed me no significant results.

There is a hint that Brell would be shown to matter with a larger data set.

I have no such hope for the Catch-a-Lot. It doesn't help. SOE needs to fix this.

[SIZE=3]Fishing in Natimbi[/SIZE]										
Number of casts for a hundred baits for each type of pole and type of bait										
		Brell's			Normal Pole		All		
		CaLot	Grubs	All	CaLot	Grubs	All	CaLot	Grubs	All
Pounds	0	30	22	52	33	38	71	63	60	123
	6	17	16	33	15	21	36	32	37	69
	7	15	16	31	15	16	31	30	32	62
	8	21	16	37	25	16	41	46	32	78
	9	11	25	36	15	10	25	26	35	61
	10	9	11	20	6	10	16	15	21	36
	11	11	6	17	3	9	12	14	15	29
	12	10	13	23	9	6	15	19	19	38
	13	1	3	4	6	4	10	7	7	14
	14	3	0	3	1	2	3	4	2	6
	15	2	2	4	4	3	7	6	5	11
Casts		130	130	260	132	135	267	262	265	527
Baits		100	100	200	100	100	200	200	200	400
Pounds		890	962	1,852	883	852	1735	1773	1814	3587
Value		424	458	882	420	406	826	844	864	1708
per cast	3.3	3.5	3.4	3.2	3.0	3.1	3.2	3.3	3.2
per bait	4.2	4.6	4.4	4.2	4.1	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.3
2004.03.09     Fishing skill 200

[Suani]

Bah . I gather all this info then fishing in Gates of Discord gets nerfed a few hours later.

I might redo the analysis to check if bait with mod has been fixed. That's if the value of crab and tuna has not been nerfed too hard.

At least I was one of the last to get good prices for my fish. It's too bad that SOE thinks that hitting mobs is the only thing worth rewarding.

[Tejaye]

Mods

The Catch-a-lot bait does not help because Sony refuses to let the stated Modifiers on all baits and lures work. Only the Mods on fishing Poles (ie-Blessed and brells) will work.

[OberonMiM]

i posted my hypothesis that this was a case over 9 months ago

/shrug

not like it wasn't expected