Fishing Expansion

I am a big fan of Origin Realms’ custom fishing mechanic, including all of the cool fish you can find in various biomes. Something I have wanted to see on Origin Realms for a long time is more progression-based gameplay in terms of various gameplay systems, including fishing. In other words, I would like to see new systems added to fishing that allow the player to progress over time, increasing the ruby gains from fishing and maybe even adding new items/types of items that can be caught from fishing. While I don’t have any super concrete suggestions, here are some examples of things I would like to see in this regard:

• New Fishing Enchantments: One possible way to add more progression to fishing is to add new enchantments that affect fishing in various ways. For example, a “Fish Rarity” enchantment that makes you more likely to catch Uncommon, Rare, and Epic fish, or a “Fish Size” enchantment that makes you more likely to catch larger sizes of fish. I think it would be much more interesting from a gameplay perspective if these enchantments were only obtainable through fishing as well. Finally, I think any "fishing boost” enchantments should be mutually exclusive with each other, in order to provide more strategy in terms of what enchantments to use.

• New Fishing Rod Types: Additionally, I would like to see some new types of fishing rods, which could have benefits similar to the enchantments suggested above. I think this would work best if there were multiple different “best” fishing rod types to go for that are good for different things, similar to how Shadow and Toxic gear are both about as good as each other, but are good for different use cases.

• Fishing Upgrades: I would also like to see some sort of upgrade system for fishing. These upgrades would boost your fishing odds in the same way that the enchantments/rod types mentioned above would, but they would be permanent and always apply to you when fishing. These upgrades could cost rubies (which would be good for removing rubies from the economy), and maybe also require some sort of fishing “material” that is only obtainable from fishing. Finally, to prevent rich players from being able to buy their way to the maximum upgrade levels immediately, I think upgrade tiers should require a certain amount of unique caught fish types/weights.

Additionally, I would like to see fishing rod toolskins added. It was confirmed in the stage event that spears will be getting toolskins, so I don’t see why fishing rods can’t get the same treatment.