Read this if fish have stopped biting for you.

[Peptowl]

I have noticed that sometimes fish stop biting, and for a long time it puzzled me.
I found the cause of the problem, and somewhat of a solution that works well.
If you press F9 in game, and look in the top right, you'll see a ping listed.
If that reaches into the 80s, you will get very few fish to stay on the line. They will often
spit the hook resulting in the complaints of "Ghost Fish". A successful fishing trip for me has my ping in the 50-60 range. Shutdown anything using network speed you don't need, and you will see an increase in bites and the ghost fish will go away.

[XentroDiMentro]

Shouldn't matter, Fishing planet's only game servers are located in America, hence all players outside Northern America are playing with 150-200 ping. If this were the issue, European players wouldnt be catching any fish.

[Peptowl]

Originally posted by XentroDiMentro:

Shouldn't matter, Fishing planet's only game servers are located in America, hence all players outside Northern America are playing with 150-200 ping. If this were the issue, European players wouldnt be catching any fish.

Yet you can clearly observe the issue if you hit F9, time after time. It's beyond coincidence. I've spent a while now watching the ping go up, and fish activity go down.

[XentroDiMentro]

Originally posted by Pepto:

Yet you can clearly observe the issue if you hit F9, time after time. It's beyond coincidence. I've spent a while now watching the ping go up, and fish activity go down.

I am consistently over 150 ping, because im located in Europe, im landing 300kg nets in Alaska no problem. Correlation does not mean causation ^^.

[Pobsta]

Good point and there may well be something in it in regard to ghost fish but my ping has been perfectly fine and very good and im losing fish in ways never before the last patch and it is not like the ghost fish thing either. Just incase people mistake the "ghost" fish for the recent reported fish loss issues, they are two entirely different things and problems.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Ping may be an indirect factor but it's not a cause, I don't think. I generally have had 250+ ping in the past few days while downloading World of Warships. While I'm nowhere near close to filling a net, that's due to low bite rates over ghosts strikes which I very infrequently see.

If anything, I would hazard a guess that packet loss may be a larger factor than latency. But, it also boils down to the overall bugs since the map's release that have not been fixed but confirmed to be there.

[CarpDM]

I don't know if ping has anything to do with it but the effects of this bug or whatever it is were clear in todays semifinal. You have two or 3 people who couldn't catch fish any faster if they wanted to, then you had the rest of the field with less than a third of the amount of fish caught. They really should have addressed this issue before going through with the tournament. I didn't know about the F9 thing to show ping though, that's a cool feature. It shows my ping in the 30s and I doubt it's ever been any higher than that tbh, I have pretty good internet.

[Waidwerk]

I can confirm this! Some months ago i had no internet here, and tried to play over smartphone internet, i couldnt catch anything even on Mudwater.

[Mizuki 水城 泰士]

News flash: people from other counteries will NEVER get a ping that low no matter what they do! so no, I don't see this as feasible

[rjd66]

I have a ping of about 60 and as of a week ago I am not catching much of anything while I see others catching tons of fish.

[dbtr]

I could play normally until 600ms after that and with packet loss fish dropped off the hook.But this is a different issue ,if u fish at shallows in Alaska you r gonna see the fish spawning biting and leaving immidietly .I believe it has to do with fish Ai not network quality.

[Waidwerk]

News flash Taishi! I am from another country and i haver normally 30 to 60 ping. Right now its to high and you cant catch its a simple as that.

[moonpiespotlight]

Originally posted by Pepto:

Originally posted by XentroDiMentro:

Shouldn't matter, Fishing planet's only game servers are located in America, hence all players outside Northern America are playing with 150-200 ping. If this were the issue, European players wouldnt be catching any fish.

Yet you can clearly observe the issue if you hit F9, time after time. It's beyond coincidence. I've spent a while now watching the ping go up, and fish activity go down.

I started a thread about this recently and folks scoffed at it.

[moonpiespotlight]

Originally posted by Jonathan J. O'Neill:

Ping may be an indirect factor but it's not a cause, I don't think. I generally have had 250+ ping in the past few days while downloading World of Warships. While I'm nowhere near close to filling a net, that's due to low bite rates over ghosts strikes which I very infrequently see.

If anything, I would hazard a guess that packet loss may be a larger factor than latency. But, it also boils down to the overall bugs since the map's release that have not been fixed but confirmed to be there.

Server side, client side or simple latency. Each has a different result.