Fishing on multiple toons

[suicidesspyder]

I was wondering if theres a way to do this. Get fishing on all your toons pick a spot cast they all cast same time. Then is there a way to click the bobbers are the same time if needed or no. Or would it be to hard to lvl 5 fishers at the same time. Cause doing one is bad enough i dont want to do it five single times i want to do it all at once. Since on my server a lot of money can come from fishing.

[Korruptor]

here is an old thread on this subject

Multi-fishing

[Basilikos]

It's do-able, but the fishing timers go off randomly, so clicking them all at once would make no sense. Also, the bobber ends up in a random place, too. It's a no-go from that route. I currently have my favorite group multi-fishing with a couple of UI mods and a little understanding of how things work.

Note that I'm hardware boxing, so the only purchase I needed to make was a lousy set of speakers for every machine. Then, I changed the sound that plays when the bobber bobs to say, "one" or "two" or whatever machine the event occurred on. After that, I had to find a place to fish where I could spread the group out so that one character doesn't goof with the other. The reason for that is that if two of my characters are too close together, one will catch a fish and it will sound like the OTHER character caught the fish (because the clients are going to play the "bob" sound if a bobber in range of the character bobs).

That, and I installed FishingBuddy (it's either named that or FishBuddy, I don't recall offhand). That emphasizes the fishing sounds when you're fishing and enables auto-loot as well as double right-click recasting of the fishing ability.

I hope I explained that well enough. It's going to take a little getting used to, but overall I like it because I don't have to keep an eye on every bobber at once.

[Duese]

Well, let's look at this a different way and see how many we can pull up before it starts being counterproductive.

Each cast has a 20 second timer.
The window for catching a fish is within 3 seconds of the bobber popping (rough estimate, could be more or less).
The majority of the time, the bobber doesn't pop until the second half of the casting.

Given these parameters, you could argue that 3-4 boxing would be the most fishing that you could do with a standard clicking and rotating client.

Cast on 1.
Wait 5 seconds.
Cast on 2.
Wait 5 seconds.
Cast on 3.
Check bobber on 1, recast.
Cast on 4.
Check bobber on 2, recast.
And so on...

This is some pretty non-stop clicking. I'm not an expert fisher, but I do have a couple toons with it and my highest being 375. I'm just trying to push out some of the common trends that I see.

Another idea would be to find a way to force a cast to go to roughly the same spot every time. I haven't really tried this, but it could be plausable within a few yards of each other. Then, you could hypothetically cast it on all your toons at the same time, wait until a given time and then click across the span of where the bobber could be. This obviously will result in quite a few "Fish got away" and "Nothing on the hook", but if you are doing it with 5-10 toons, it's a small price if it works 60-70% of the time. Less overall clicking and more toons involved, but less of a success rate.

Addons: Anything short of "clicking for you" addons, which are obviously against the ToS, aren't going to really help after a certain number of toons if you plan on a 100% success rate on bobber pops. Flashing the screen might work out, but again, as someone earlier said, it's only a wav file that plays. If their is an event that is triggered, I think it's not accessible for addons. I need to do some digging to see if their is any.

Would be really neat if their was an addon that could bring up a zoom box of the bobber that animates when the bobber moves.

I have been debating about 4 box fishing a lot recently, especially with the significant increase in the stat gains from food buffs. Spending 60-80g on a stack of food is getting a bit out of hand, especially when I am going through a stack every 1-2 days on just my main. (I'm about 400/500 to my 500 Emblems of Heroism achievement. Single-boxed though.)

[suicidesspyder]

well even boxing fishing times 5 it seems like more fun then single fishing. Hence your doing it on 5 so your really not sitting there inactive waiting that much. You cast wait 2 secs between each and cast. Then watch bobbers and see if how many fish you can catch. Of course one toon will be maxed for applicable lvl fishing before you get no credit. Then you can keep going on the rest. 5 times maxed out fishing = lots of money for selling the higher lvl fishies for food or an easy way to lvl your own cooking as well.