We need more tournaments

[barps]

Would be great to have more tournaments across all maps, for various species of fish and all methods (fly, float, bottom, spinning, trolling).

[Woolf ✔]

write more specifically what kind of tournaments you would like

[barps]

Thanks Woolf, ideally there will be a tournament starting at :10 every hour OR every 2 hours (e.g. 8:10AM, 9:10AM, 10:10AM, 11:10AM and so on), see below.

This will create player engagement, make the game more fun to play and I'm pretty sure there will be more players opening the game every day.

I would like the following daily tournaments (one or two from each map per day, in this case 9 maps x 2 = 18 tournaments each day, each at a different hour so we could go from one to another).:

Siberia:
- siberian dace (bottom, 3 rods)
- siberian bream (bottom, 3 rods)
- lake whitefish (bottom, 3 rods)
- lenok (bottom, 3 rods)
- tugun (bottom, 3 rods)

USA:
- silver salmon (spinning 1 rod)
- brown trout (spinning 1 rod)
- smallmouth bass (spinning 1 rod)
- black bass (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

Poland:
- trout (fly fishing, spinning, 1 rod)
- pike (spinning 1 rod)
- taimen (fly fishing, spinning, 1 rod)

Italy:
- asp (spinning 1 rod)

Germany:
- brook trout (spinning 1 rod)
- any carp (max quantity, 3 rods)

France:
- any carp (max quantity, 3 rods)

Scotland:
- arctic char (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

Finland:
- baltic salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- arctic char (spinning, bottom fishing, 3 rods)

Norway:
- farmed salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- whitefish (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- atlantic cod (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- pink salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- whitefish (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- merluzzo (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- grayling black (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- yellowfin flounder (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

[motoe5play]

If Woolf is going to add more tournaments, he needs to fix the trophy reward structure. Right now, once you win a gold medal in a specific tournament, you can't ever win any medal again (in that same tournament). So, no matter how many times a person wins 1st place (or 2nd or 3rd place) in a specific tournament, his/her profile will only show a single gold trophy. Now, IMHO, the fix would be to somehow allow the number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes a player has won for each tournament to be visible in their profile (similar to another popular fishing game). Unfortunately, as it is structured right now, I have little incentive to participate in even more tournaments where I have already won the gold.

[Engconn]

Thanks for your post @Charlie. I had thought about this too. Honestly, I'm happy to get 1 trophy for each of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th placements. Most of us want the Tokens & Xp Bonus & to win at least once. As well, maybe like our world records in profile, we can have how many tournaments won count, but only the one trophy of each placement is necessary in our trophy avatars, no need to record 2nd & 3rd placements in profile. Maybe here is another possible steam "Achievements" addition, Tournaments for the various species, winning that competition at least once, "Char Master" or "Greyling Matters" or "Golden One" or "Roach Anyone" etc. Anyways, points to ponder or an "Eureka" idea come from this :)

[motoe5play]

Originally posted by Engconn:

Thanks for your post @Charlie. I had thought about this too. Honestly,

I'm happy to get 1 trophy for each of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th placements.
(But you don't get all those, just the highest one for each event)

Most of us want the Tokens & Xp Bonus & to win at least once.
(By just enterimg the existing tournaments and completing just a few daily tasks, I have accumulated 100s of extra tokens. In fact I just gave out 12 travel passes yesterday and used 96 tournament tokens to buy them) The only real benefit I see for having so many tournaments each day would be for "streamers" to have something to show continuously. That way, they wouldn't have to invite people to fish with them so much when streaming.

As well, maybe like our world records in profile, we can have how many tournaments won count, but only the one trophy of each placement is necessary in our trophy avatars, no need to record 2nd & 3rd placements in profile.
(OK, maybe a text string to show how many times a player finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in any tournament and just keep the highest trophy won for each event as it is today).

Maybe here is another possible steam "Achievements" addition, Tournaments for the various species, winning that competition at least once, "Char Master" or "Greyling Matters" or "Golden One" or "Roach Anyone" etc. Anyways, points to ponder or an "Eureka" idea come from this :)

[Mordr3d]

Originally posted by ShootCute.TTV:

Thanks Woolf, ideally there will be a tournament starting at :10 every hour OR every 2 hours (e.g. 8:10AM, 9:10AM, 10:10AM, 11:10AM and so on), see below.

This will create player engagement, make the game more fun to play and I'm pretty sure there will be more players opening the game every day.

I would like the following daily tournaments (one or two from each map per day, in this case 9 maps x 2 = 18 tournaments each day, each at a different hour so we could go from one to another).:

Siberia:
- siberian dace (bottom, 3 rods)
- siberian bream (bottom, 3 rods)
- lake whitefish (bottom, 3 rods)
- lenok (bottom, 3 rods)
- tugun (bottom, 3 rods)

USA:
- silver salmon (spinning 1 rod)
- brown trout (spinning 1 rod)
- smallmouth bass (spinning 1 rod)
- black bass (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

Poland:
- trout (fly fishing, spinning, 1 rod)
- pike (spinning 1 rod)
- taimen (fly fishing, spinning, 1 rod)

Italy:
- asp (spinning 1 rod)

Germany:
- brook trout (spinning 1 rod)
- any carp (max quantity, 3 rods)

France:
- any carp (max quantity, 3 rods)

Scotland:
- arctic char (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

Finland:
- baltic salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- arctic char (spinning, bottom fishing, 3 rods)

Norway:
- farmed salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- whitefish (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- atlantic cod (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- pink salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- whitefish (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- merluzzo (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- grayling black (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- yellowfin flounder (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

Totally agree with the tournament volume, but would greatly expand the mix of tournaments per map from some of the above - e.g. France, Italy - so many great species there that could be included so seems a real shame to limit to only one or two on some of the maps - also agree there should be tournaments that cater to each fishing style so that it is not too spinning heavy.

[motoe5play]

Originally posted by Mordr3d:

Originally posted by ShootCute.TTV:

Thanks Woolf, ideally there will be a tournament starting at :10 every hour OR every 2 hours (e.g. 8:10AM, 9:10AM, 10:10AM, 11:10AM and so on), see below.

This will create player engagement, make the game more fun to play and I'm pretty sure there will be more players opening the game every day.

I would like the following daily tournaments (one or two from each map per day, in this case 9 maps x 2 = 18 tournaments each day, each at a different hour so we could go from one to another).:

Siberia:
- siberian dace (bottom, 3 rods)
- siberian bream (bottom, 3 rods)
- lake whitefish (bottom, 3 rods)
- lenok (bottom, 3 rods)
- tugun (bottom, 3 rods)

USA:
- silver salmon (spinning 1 rod)
- brown trout (spinning 1 rod)
- smallmouth bass (spinning 1 rod)
- black bass (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

Poland:
- trout (fly fishing, spinning, 1 rod)
- pike (spinning 1 rod)
- taimen (fly fishing, spinning, 1 rod)

Italy:
- asp (spinning 1 rod)

Germany:
- brook trout (spinning 1 rod)
- any carp (max quantity, 3 rods)

France:
- any carp (max quantity, 3 rods)

Scotland:
- arctic char (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

Finland:
- baltic salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- arctic char (spinning, bottom fishing, 3 rods)

Norway:
- farmed salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- whitefish (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- atlantic cod (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- pink salmon (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- whitefish (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- merluzzo (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- grayling black (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)
- yellowfin flounder (bottom, spinning, float, fly, 3 rods)

Totally agree with the tournament volume, but would greatly expand the mix of tournaments per map from some of the above - e.g. France, Italy - so many great species there that could be included so seems a real shame to limit to only one or two on some of the maps - also agree there should be tournaments that cater to each fishing style so that it is not too spinning heavy.

OK, I can agree with you on keeping the volume about the same and adding a more diverse variety of fish to catch. However, I hope any changes and/or additions are not modeled after the USA 1000 DLC map. It is really difficult trying to catch day fish at night and night fish during the day. Moreover, making it more difficult is trying to catch fish that usually bite on bait with a spinning rig and vice-versa. No wonder that map has tournaments where only a very few people even catch a fish.

[Mordr3d]

agree - they should never be random or illogical pairings - who on earth spins for eels! Should be a pre-configured set of options that all make sense and can create a decent competition at the times that they appear on each map.

If you want to encourage folks to catch fish in bizarre ways then add some steam achievements e.g. to mark the achievement of catching an eel with a spinner

[motoe5play]

Originally posted by Mordr3d:

agree - they should never be random or illogical pairings - who on earth spins for eels! Should be a pre-configured set of options that all make sense and can create a decent competition at the times that they appear on each map.

If you want to encourage folks to catch fish in bizarre ways then add some steam achievements e.g. to mark the achievement of catching an eel with a spinner

+1

[Woolf ✔]

Originally posted by Charlie:

If Woolf is going to add more tournaments, he needs to fix the trophy reward structure. Right now, once you win a gold medal in a specific tournament, you can't ever win any medal again (in that same tournament). So, no matter how many times a person wins 1st place (or 2nd or 3rd place) in a specific tournament, his/her profile will only show a single gold trophy. Now, IMHO, the fix would be to somehow allow the number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes a player has won for each tournament to be visible in their profile (similar to another popular fishing game). Unfortunately, as it is structured right now, I have little incentive to participate in even more tournaments where I have already won the gold.

This was originally intended. Give others a chance, looking at the gold in your profile, everyone can already see that you are a master

[motoe5play]

Originally posted by Woolf ✔:

Originally posted by Charlie:

If Woolf is going to add more tournaments, he needs to fix the trophy reward structure. Right now, once you win a gold medal in a specific tournament, you can't ever win any medal again (in that same tournament). So, no matter how many times a person wins 1st place (or 2nd or 3rd place) in a specific tournament, his/her profile will only show a single gold trophy. Now, IMHO, the fix would be to somehow allow the number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes a player has won for each tournament to be visible in their profile (similar to another popular fishing game). Unfortunately, as it is structured right now, I have little incentive to participate in even more tournaments where I have already won the gold.

This was originally intended. Give others a chance, looking at the gold in your profile, everyone can already see that you are a master

Nice to hear from you again. In short, I don't feel like (or consider myself) a master; however, it is my choice to limit my tournament play if I have already won a gold medal in a specific tournament and it is your choice to leave everything "as is" if you don't like a suggestion.

[Fischkopf]

Originally posted by Woolf ✔:

This was originally intended. Give others a chance, looking at the gold in your profile, everyone can already see that you are a master

In my few weeks i am playing this game i see nevertheless same names in top 3 on specific tournaments again. I have no issues with that, if someone is that good, but i think you can spread the possibility of giving all players a proper chance by doing the following:

1. let several tounaments happen at the same time. so no one can be at the same time twice. so we have to decide which one we want to take part. You can do either all each of one style or same style at the same time, whatever will work out for you better. Switch timing in 3/6/12 from day to day so that everyone in every time zone has a chance once a day/week (dependin on how many new contests we get from you. ;) )

2. rewards: reward top places with some minor givaways, like lures, bait etc. in a non fixed appearance so people are further spread by the chance of getting somethign that they like.

3. Maybe set a cooldown for a special type so that you can do a special style contest only once a day or whatever period you have in mind. (would hurt myself as well, but can help)

4. Randomization: Why not make Contest x+y+z (x=Lake y=fishOfLake z=fishingMethod)
Will sometimes make no sense but can be incredible fun seeing 50 people flyfishing for Catfish or spinnfishing carp..

Nevertheless i agree with the opener, that we need more kind of tournaments. each lake has so many challenging fishes to go for.
Additionally i would like to see real tournaments with qualifying and finals. but i am not such long into the game to know if they do already exist..

You have made a great game, thank you for that!

[HirnGOAT]

Originally posted by Fischkopf:

4. Randomization: Why not make Contest x+y+z (x=Lake y=fishOfLake z=fishingMethod)
Will sometimes make no sense but can be incredible fun seeing 50 people flyfishing for Catfish or spinnfishing carp..

This is what I was going to say. It's ok if sometimes a tournament looks impossible.

Currently it's to easy to be good prepared for the tournaments, because of the lack of variety. They keep repeating and it's very efficient to prepare once and keep farming.

[Pierrot]

Agree with the proposition of much more tournaments, every 1 hour in a day, from early morning and in all the maps. According to gamers, morning, afternoon or night is the free time in life, so let us participate when we can please.

[Tynta]

Originally posted by Charlie:

Originally posted by Mordr3d:

agree - they should never be random or illogical pairings - who on earth spins for eels! Should be a pre-configured set of options that all make sense and can create a decent competition at the times that they appear on each map.

If you want to encourage folks to catch fish in bizarre ways then add some steam achievements e.g. to mark the achievement of catching an eel with a spinner

+1

+1