Quanchkin Thread

[dukeof3arl]

I've decided to start an official idea thread for Quanchkin. I've spent over 30 hours there and a number of full in game days and it's not in a great spot. I've heard players refer to it as "the new, old Alberta."

The only thing that is really worth fishing there is catfish. Since catfish return on cash is terrible, it makes that lake almost a complete bust.

Place your suggestions or your experience with Quanchkin so we can start identifying the problems.

1) Cost is sky high for a lake that doesn't produce enough fish.
2) If you are going to make this a catfish lake there needs to be more than one spot for Flatheads. That whole open area in "Swamp" nneds to be one giant hole.
3) You can't have a lake that targets just catfish at higher levels. Nobody will go there. See Alaksa, Michigan, and Alberta. All of these lakes have a target fish that produces credits in a reliable fashion.

Possible Solutions:

1) Buff bass bite rates by 50%
2) Buff chain pickrel bite rates by 50%
3) Add more holes. A swamp lake like that should be absolutely full of them.
4) Or just drop the level requirement to 30ish and lower all costs to go there.

[sirkipalot]

Build a Tesco superstore on it

[That Fetcher Fargoth]

You're pretty spot on OP. I agree with everything you said.

[dukeof3arl]

Originally posted by sirkipalot:

Build a Tesco superstore on it steam-mocking:

They should put that Tesco right in the middle of the lake. Don't have to worry about endangering the wildlife because there isn't any. :) But seriously. Someone needs to go have a look at the spawn rates. They're deplorable.

[Falcon]

Mostly agree. Either buff the bass, or like you said drop the level req down to 16-20.

Catfishing bite rates are good. Saw someone in chat catch 2 trophy flatheads and then a unique back-to-back within the space of 5-10 mins. The fish do seem to be kind of concentrated and limited to a few deep holes, though. This is going to have people getting PO'd fishing on top of each other all the time.

Bass fishing there is either kind of a joke or I'm doing it wrong. Catching maybe 1-2 per game hour. Only 1 trophy spotted bass. Tried frogs, shiners, shrimp, spoons, cranks, spinnerbaits, bass jigs, the whole enchilada. Just not catching. Same for pickerel. There's water everywhere, and most of it looks way too fishy to not hold a few bass or bowfin. Need way more spawn points spread out everywhere. I'd say the bite rate or the number of spawn points for spotted and LMB need to be doubled.

The pickerel aren't a big deal to me. They're really more of a cold water species anyway. It would surprise the heck out of me to find one in a Louisiana Bayou. People catch them occasionally in southern LA, but they're not common at all there. Wouldn't mind a bit if the devs completely pulled them from this location.

They seriously need to put gators in there. :)

Of course all of this is from less than one full game day fishing there. Maybe it's just a bad 1st impression.

[dukeof3arl]

Originally posted by jazebiker:

Mostly agree.

Catfishing seems to be not bad at all. Saw someone in chat catch 2 trophy flatheads and then a unique back-to-back within the space of 5-10 mins. The fish do seem to be kind of concentrated and limited to the few deep holes.

Bass fishing there is either kind of a joke or I'm doing it wrong. Catching about 1 per game hour. Tried frogs, shiners, shrimp, spoons, cranks, spinnerbaits, bass jigs, the whole enchilada. Just not catching. Same for pickerel. The pickerel aren't a big deal to me. They're really more of a cold water species. It would surprise the heck out of me to find one in a Louisiana Bayou IRL.

They seriously need to put gators in there. :)

Yeah the catfishing there is okay. But if the lake is going to focus on catfish, then you need to put a money making fish in there to compensate for the lack of credits you receive per lb/kg. I seriously think it's not intended though (I hope).

Especially on pegs like "Pelican Hut" and "Good Ole' Tobacco" you should be able to crush largemouth in there - in my experience it's just not the case. I've thrown everything I can think of at them. It's just not where it needs to be.

[sirkipalot]

Originally posted by jazebiker:

Mostly agree. Either buff the bass, or like you said drop the level req down to 16-20.

Catfishing bite rates are good. Saw someone in chat catch 2 trophy flatheads and then a unique back-to-back within the space of 5-10 mins. The fish do seem to be kind of concentrated and limited to a few deep holes, though. This is going to have people getting PO'd fishing on top of each other all the time.

Bass fishing there is either kind of a joke or I'm doing it wrong. Catching maybe 1-2 per game hour. Only 1 trophy spotted bass. Tried frogs, shiners, shrimp, spoons, cranks, spinnerbaits, bass jigs, the whole enchilada. Just not catching. Same for pickerel. There's water everywhere, and most of it looks way too fishy to not hold a few bass or bowfin. Need way more spawn points spread out everywhere. I'd say the bite rate or the number of spawn points for spotted and LMB need to be doubled.

The pickerel aren't a big deal to me. They're really more of a cold water species anyway. It would surprise the heck out of me to find one in a Louisiana Bayou. People catch them occasionally in southern LA, but they're not common at all there. Wouldn't mind a bit if the devs completely pulled them from this location.

They seriously need to put gators in there. :)

Of course all of this is from less than one full game day fishing there. Maybe it's just a bad 1st impression.

Par for the course though isn't it. Somewhere that looks fishy devoid of any life and that happens on every venue. Some of the greatest looking hold ups have nothing but water. I doubt even bacteria lives there :)