If you're so worried about bots in general, increase the proficiency requirement for sport fishing on the ocean to like 70k-90k
Yes, that's quite a high number, but if u gonna make it too low, will serve no purpose.
The biggest problem with fishing is actually no school of fish themselves. A lot of times u spend 1hr wondering around the ocean finding absolutely nothing unless u go really far from the shores and when u finally found it - catch 4-5 fish and someone comes and kills u for ur measly 60g, which u spend well lets see now 1h30mins to get.... And u needed to chum the spot, have a fishing boat, have fishing rod... All these investments at this point makes fishing just a hobby or way to burn time, get some nice fish looking fish trophies, cause u're not making profit out it.
Obviously if u're only checking silver per labor, the numbers are okayish but the thing is, u can't rly load up 20 packs like tradeship and do it consistently and in a timely manner... Just to do that fishers day event 18 fishes, most likely u need to dedicate atleast 2hrs and maybe more, if u can't find school of fish, get attacked. U can only pull out if i remember correctly 21 fish out of chummed school of fish, so thats limited.
Sport Fishing checklist:
- need fishing boat
- need fishing rod (which btw expires)
- need chum (requires pike fish, again... extra time if u dun wanna buy)
- need school of fish (can't find one, well then, no fishing today,gj wasting all that time instead of farming purses or running tradeships/freighters)
- need atleast a minimum of 30mins, to fill the boat
- need not to get attacked, before the fish get to port
- need sufficient proficiency otherwise fish will get away
Profit? Lets say u got 3 tunas, 1 sturgeon, 1 marlin, got lucky with getting 1 gargantiuan fish (24g avg.)
tunas usually like 12g, marlin more to like 15g, sturgeon in between 14g.
12 x 3 + 15 + 14 + 24 -> 89g
And u most likely spent atleast 5-10mins travelling to the spot, lets avg it out to 8mins (travel back 2x). 16min + 30mins fishing, 46min.
I can make that same amount by doing just rice on my land....
U feel exactly like this pepe frog after fishing...