Fishing ponds

[Slick]

i see there is a penalty for having large ponds, however i don't understand the workings of this, is it 16 squares in total area, or 16 x 16 because if one was to put two 3x3 blocks of fish that is 18 and not a very big pond for fishing, in the first farm together i made ponds of 72 fish which ensured enough fish when doing late game quests, however if 16 is the maximum before a penalty then how does the penalty work? thanks

[Jenny]

Penalty? I have all mine joined together I have not noticed anything... There is a penalty for it???!! :(

[Mackenzie]

I too am curious of the exact specifics of this change.

Originally posted by Jenny:

Penalty? I have all mine joined together I have not noticed anything... There is a penalty for it???!! :(

Unlike the first game, there are diminishing returns effective after 16 joined ponds.

[Slick]

Originally posted by Jenny:

Penalty? I have all mine joined together I have not noticed anything... There is a penalty for it???!! :(

yes if you look in settings under how to play and ponds it says really big ponds over 16 tiles get a progressive income penalty. and im just trying to understand it lol

[twhiting9275]

they've said they're reviewing this, so right now, I'd say that's just part of EA, and we'll see where they end up with it.

Personally, I'm against it. My "ponds" tend to be maxed out , always have been

[Jenny]

I don't want to fish 50 ponds, so I am leaving them together.

[DixieCrab]

16 tiles is ridiculously small. First off, it is not a multiple of 3 which makes for awkward placement. Secondly, who wants a bunch of puddles to fish from scattered all over your farm? I could live with a set limit less than the 1000 tiles we used in FT1 but it needs to be something more practical and productive to work with.

[Chaosbringer699]

is it 16 tiles or 16x16 thats 256 fish

[DixieCrab]

It says tiles in the tutorial.

[Chaosbringer699]

once i get back to my farm ill mess with it see if its 16 or 16x16

[Slick]

Originally posted by Chaosbringer699:

is it 16 tiles or 16x16 thats 256 fish

yeah thats my question lol. its lacking the important information

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Chaosbringer699:

is it 16 tiles or 16x16 thats 256 fish

It is a penalty for every tile above 16, so 4x4 ponds. Which is granted way to small and should be upped. And they just announced that they are looking into it and even thinking of making it like all the other harvesting per tile instead of per pond.

In the first game I had a few separate ponds one for each type of fish that mixed with each other. Now they still mix but with only 16 tiles before the penalty it is not something to go for in this game.

At least they got rid of the % for fish so if you got 15 tiles you will get 15 fish, so no need to inflate your ponds to overcome the RNG for finishing quests.

As for ponds I would say 4 types of fish together would be nice to have with a 15 tiles per fish, which would end up with 60 tiles per pond before the penalty kicks in.

[Purno]

I also think this is badly explained. It's mentioned once in the tutorial but easily overlooked. Nowhere does it state (or at least, haven't discovered it yet) how big the penalty is so a strategic choice can be made.

If they don't want people to fish thousands of fish with a single click, I think the system in FT1 (that allows you to only fish 15 ponds per click) is a better way of dealing with this.

Personally I like optimizing things and although I realize fishing thousands of fish with a single click may be too easy, I'd like it.

[Dia]

They changed it to over 36 tiles now. Its no longer 16. Go to settings, then to how to play then to ponds and you will see it there.

[Mackenzie]

Originally posted by Dia:

They changed it to over 36 tiles now. Its no longer 16. Go to settings, then to how to play then to ponds and you will see it there.

Correct, and it is shown in a popup when you first start purchasing fish ponds.

Since this thread was bumped I'll take the opportunity to shamelessly plug My Steam Guide which has updated and detailed information about the fishing pond changes and mechanics.

[Tiriana]

Why Penalize the pond size at all? This makes no sense to me. Isn't it supposed to be MY farm? Aren't I allowed to put on MY farm the items I want and at the size I want? Isn't keeping the servers running smoothly the reason for the total farm size limit? To control the amount of space allotted to each person's farm so as to not overload the server? What does control over one's pond size have to do with it? So long as nobody is able to go farther than the boundary of the map, why can't a person create a lake if they choose to?