An interesting idea for a GM event

[mewkus]

I just had an interesting idea for a GM event... A Fishing Tournament

GM could call people to a zone and then have a contest to see who can catch the most of some kind of fish in the next 30/60/90 minutes. The winner gets a special token that can be combined with an artisan's seal to make (you guessed it) a trophy. The token would need to be returned on failure since the winner still deserves a trophy, but just has to pay for it again.

Just about everyone i know in RL that does sport fishing has some kind of trophy. Why not in EQ?

It'd take a little bit of coding work to make sure that the fish that people bring as a evidence of their fishing were actually caught by them durring the contest. Maybe it could be some kind of NoDrop/NoRent fish that only spawn in the waters during the contest and prior to the start of the event, any instances of that fish in someone's inventory will poof. Or maybe it can be set up like one of those tasks that count how many times you loot something.

[YurienStonebow]

about time to get a fishing trophy

[Nefertiti Nazguul]

Sounds like good old boreing fun. Good Idea.

[Maevenniia]

They had a fishing contest sometime last year on RN, in a zone where you fish those fertid bass of various weights...I think the one who fished the most cumulative "weight" of fish at the end of a 1 hr period won the prize...wasn't a trophy but I don't recall what it was

[jibaker]

fishing tournament

They had a fishing tournament in north karana on the firiona vie server about 2 months ago, I won the tournament which lasted one hour and got the face item with enduring breath on. Would have loved a real trophy but overall was a fun event.

Jibaker Clericwarrior
Cleric of 70 Seasons on Firiona Vie

[Nonih]

They have done this on Tm (Drinal now) as well. Hubby and I both worked to get our fishing to 200 asap and it paid off. He won the contest! He also won the Rebreather.

They also seem to level limit the contests, so say only toons level 25-40 can participate. I do remember there being a problem as someone brought fish in and claimed them caught; the GMs knew though and disqualified them.