Whats the point of nets?

[Turtles]

I've tried using the net and it maybe catches 1 to 2 fish in a day. However it only lasts a day before needing repair so it seems extremely pointless. Am I using it wrong or is it just that useless?

[HellSlayer]

Nets are useless.. its a huge sink of research parts.. and you need a lot of parts to unlock other things like engines and fishing poles being the priority. The crab pots are also quite important but nets is just gold flow. And there is nothing much to spend that gold on.

[RCMidas]

I treat pots and nets as ways to fill out the encyclopedia and make a bit of extra money when I'm purely exploring territory early on and haven't the materials to prep for buying future upgrades.

[Tolkien Book Fan]

I don't know how good the trawls are financially, but I researched their first level once I unlocked them and then had one running the rest of the game. I trawled lots of aberrants that people complain about here and on Discord. When I got to the second stage of the Twisted Strands main quest, I found I had all but one of the fish required sitting in my trawl net just from me sailing around the Strands.

[Turtles]

Publicado originalmente por HellSlayer:

Nets are useless.. its a huge sink of research parts.. and you need a lot of parts to unlock other things like engines and fishing poles being the priority. The crab pots are also quite important but nets is just gold flow. And there is nothing much to spend that gold on.

Yeah that's kind of how I felt about them. Even with the max upgraded trawl it still didn't seem to catch fish that fast. I'd rather be able have the max pole and dredge so I catch everything than the trawler that takes up a crap ton of space.

[YouMayCallMeMurray]

Publicado originalmente por Turtles:

Yeah that's kind of how I felt about them. Even with the max upgraded trawl it still didn't seem to catch fish that fast. I'd rather be able have the max pole and dredge so I catch everything than the trawler that takes up a crap ton of space.

18 fish per day and takes only 6 slots.. That´s passive income.

[MikeC]

Publicado originalmente por YouMayCallMeMurray:

Publicado originalmente por Turtles:

Yeah that's kind of how I felt about them. Even with the max upgraded trawl it still didn't seem to catch fish that fast. I'd rather be able have the max pole and dredge so I catch everything than the trawler that takes up a crap ton of space.

18 fish per day and takes only 6 slots.. That´s passive income.

What's are you going to spend that money on after the midpoint of the game? Money isn't really an object at that point even without trawling.

[Turtles]

Publicado originalmente por YouMayCallMeMurray:

Publicado originalmente por Turtles:

Yeah that's kind of how I felt about them. Even with the max upgraded trawl it still didn't seem to catch fish that fast. I'd rather be able have the max pole and dredge so I catch everything than the trawler that takes up a crap ton of space.

18 fish per day and takes only 6 slots.. That´s passive income.

That's if you're moving the whole time and throughout the whole day. From what I experienced it was no where close 18 fish a day.

[RCMidas]

Something to note is that much of the rest of the world is operating on the principle of "do job, get paid, money good". That our protagonist has ulterior motives once the Collector makes his appearance is not taken into account by them. So long as he keeps doing them favours and doing his job, his eccentricities are dismissed as a quirk of being out for too long in a region of sea known for causing mental disorders.

So whenever the traders and shipwrights start talking about nets and pots as good sources of income, passive or otherwise, they are talking from their own perspective of trying to advise a new fisherman in the area who can help in making their day-to-day somewhat more profitable. A trawling net is therefore a very good way of making some passive income whilst the new fisherman gets to the important task of exploring the archipelago and becoming familiar with it.

[Nikas Zekeval]

Question on trawling, do you have to run over disturbed water for the net to catch things, or does the net catch fish as long as you are in a region were it is effective, regardless if it is a fishing spot for using a rod?

[Necroscourge]

Publicado originalmente por Nikas Zekeval:

Question on trawling, do you have to run over disturbed water for the net to catch things, or does the net catch fish as long as you are in a region were it is effective, regardless if it is a fishing spot for using a rod?

No, my understanding is that there are passive checks that occur every so and so feet you travel while the net is engaged in waters that the net is rated for. So if you have an Ocean net, you will mostly catch fish when travelling across the ocean.

[underslung]

The checks do not appear to be based on motion. Frequently you will get a new fish in the net immediately after undocking.

[Banzai]

Keep in mind that the income from nets can be used to buy research parts every day from the "travelling" dock woman, which offsets the loss of parts researching the nets.