"Your equipment does not conform to the rules of the competition"... :(

[Ellegon]

Hey all,

After a long absence I wanted to give the game another try. And since I saw that they entered competitions, I thought it's a fun way to do one.

Well on my first attempt I travelled to the fishing spot, only to notice that all my inventory has been cleared and stored at home. So I had to say goodbye to my travel costs and go back to pick it up :(

I then packed 2 rods (spinning and floating) and went practicing. It went ok untill my spinner broke and since I only had one (didn't know I have to put the spare ones in the backpack), well... I had to travel back home again. I packed all I could and wanted to go to the tournament. But, after arriving, it said that my equipment is not conform to the competition. Problem is, I don't even know which part is not conform. The tournament only says "spinning tackle" and my casting spoon obviously is not it. So I went to the shop, but all I can buy there is a nano-spinner, which seems to be the wrong one as well.

I'm a bit disappointed now.. I wasted almost all of my saved money on travel costs and still have no clue what equipment is ok. And I fear that in every tournamen I have to travel back and forth a few times untill I find out what is ok and what not. Maybe for pro's it's easy but I'm a total noob (to the game as well as fishing) and totally lost .(

It's sad as I liked the game and would love to get back into it again. But the risks of losing money (in game) is far too high atm...

I guess I will try to build up a lot more money before trying comps now :( That's really sad :(

So, to sum it up: Is there a list of what equip is ok for the various competitions? The one I tried was the "Neherrin Minimal".

[Bummer (major)]

I do not enter competitions, but often you have to use a stringer instead of a fishnet or visa versa.
Maybe that could have been the case.

[Ellegon]

Hmm.. there is nothing mentioned about stringers/fishnet in the Rules & Restrictions. The only thing mentioned is "Use only Spinning fishing tackle!". Everything else is just information (what species count, the smaller the more points etc.).

It's a real mystery to me :(

[BonPadre]

Many comps have indeed a specified restriction. As noted by Riff Raff, for keepnet or stringer, it can also be spinner rods, or float, or even barbless hooks, using only plastic lures etc.... so yeah you definitely need to read carefully what's needed... Neherrin minimal is spinning only, emerald predator hunt is float AND keepnet, trout Hunter is barbless jigheads, Old Bucks is only barbless lures, One By One is only insects and worms, etc

Originally posted by Ellegon:

Hmm.. there is nothing mentioned about stringers/fishnet in the Rules & Restrictions. The only thing mentioned is "Use only Spinning fishing tackle!". Everything else is just information (what species count, the smaller the more points etc.).

It's a real mystery to me :(

So you had to use the spinning rod... not only the spinning reel... which mean end lure could be jigheads or spoons etc... but not float and worms...
And from your description I believe it was the Neherrin minimal...

[nikolai.vlassov]

Strange. areu sure u had your spinning rod assembled? Are u sure u didnt have a CASTING rod instead of spinning?

[Tony Beans]

Originally posted by Ellegon:

Hey all,

After a long absence I wanted to give the game another try. And since I saw that they entered competitions, I thought it's a fun way to do one.

Well on my first attempt I travelled to the fishing spot, only to notice that all my inventory has been cleared and stored at home. So I had to say goodbye to my travel costs and go back to pick it up :(

I then packed 2 rods (spinning and floating) and went practicing. It went ok untill my spinner broke and since I only had one (didn't know I have to put the spare ones in the backpack), well... I had to travel back home again. I packed all I could and wanted to go to the tournament. But, after arriving, it said that my equipment is not conform to the competition. Problem is, I don't even know which part is not conform. The tournament only says "spinning tackle" and my casting spoon obviously is not it. So I went to the shop, but all I can buy there is a nano-spinner, which seems to be the wrong one as well.

I'm a bit disappointed now.. I wasted almost all of my saved money on travel costs and still have no clue what equipment is ok. And I fear that in every tournamen I have to travel back and forth a few times untill I find out what is ok and what not. Maybe for pro's it's easy but I'm a total noob (to the game as well as fishing) and totally lost .(

It's sad as I liked the game and would love to get back into it again. But the risks of losing money (in game) is far too high atm...

I guess I will try to build up a lot more money before trying comps now :( That's really sad :(

So, to sum it up: Is there a list of what equip is ok for the various competitions? The one I tried was the "Neherrin Minimal".

Always check the rules, usually there is some form of restriction such as with the big red tournament you can only use crankbaits and everyone I have seen so far required you to have a keepnet.

[Ellegon]

Problem was probably the rod (ValueCast 160)... it was a casting rod, not a spinning rod. I don't have a problem accepting that I made a mistake... however, the rules only stated "spinning tackle", not "spinning equipment" or "spinning rod".

Personally I would love to see a clearer list of what is ok and what not, cause I'm sure a lot of other newbies would not understand what is within the rules and what not.

But in the end it's not a major issue. I learned a valuable lesson :)

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by Ellegon:

Problem was probably the rod (ValueCast 160)... it was a casting rod, not a spinning rod. I don't have a problem accepting that I made a mistake... however, the rules only stated "spinning tackle", not "spinning equipment" or "spinning rod".

Personally I would love to see a clearer list of what is ok and what not, cause I'm sure a lot of other newbies would not understand what is within the rules and what not.

But in the end it's not a major issue. I learned a valuable lesson :)

Honnestly I also had to get that clarified, because for me as how I read it I thought (due to my non native english) it was using whatever spinning spoons...

But I can also tell you that in french we do have rules that are wrongly translated from english, causing even more issues like in oregon, the trout hunter for lower levels... and in description they speak about catching.... bass while the higher level one has it's description completely right... I'll never get those bad copy paste issues they leave all around the game anyway...

[Madkeen]

I think you needed a spinning rod/reel. Not a baitcasting rod/reel or float rod with a spinning reel. I do not think the problem was you lure.

[ALO]

After all this time, the rules of the trap are still the same. You never know if your device will conform to the rules until you play with the map. Even if you're wearing nothing but your underwear, it's your glasses that break the rules.

I think all developers know that the quick recovery of the game's gold is the reason why the bug is deliberately not fixed in order to turn it into a style of play.

Developers need this approach to grow their games, but the obvious result is that it leads to a massive loss of players. If the game doesn't die soon, it will never be fixed.

This mysterious rule, maybe old players know, they know the hidden rules of every game, they can play, they don't even want to teach new players the hidden rules, the developers think if someone knows how to play, the game is fine.

These are obviously bad things, which is why games die.

[Riley]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.