Feedback/Idea for Fishing Tournament Mini Game

[Chaotic]

My idea is for a Fishing Tournament Mini-Game. (Single player and Multiplayer)

• Have a zone with numerous fishing spots.
• Have a few different modes; I.E. catch the most fish in X amount of time, be first to catch rare fish, catch all the items in a special "set"
• Tourney would have X amounts of phases; each phase would be a different game play mode
• Earn points during each phase; winner determined by most points after all phases are complete.
• Maybe a few trophy/achievements for completing tourney, winning tourney, win each mode, complete each mode, 2nd place, 3rd place, catch all items in these "sets",
• Special Weapons and armor sets only obtainable from the fishing lakes during the tourney.
• Vanity fishing armor
• a few special fishing rods
• fishing armor set that boosts fishing skills

Could work well as a story/quest element in a fishing village in the world; Could also work well as a Arena type stand alone mini-game

 

[MrChocodemon]

I like the idea, but i think that when you leave fishing like it is right now, that the competition would be very slow and far too much luck. I mean fishing itself is luck based, but that is ok, because you can stop when you want.
What if you really want to win, because there unique things to win, but it takes 20-30 minutes each run and you have really bad luck...

a few special fishing rods

Or fishing rod upgrades from the fishing viking
this could make the tournament less luck based

OR bait for different fish... like pumpkin seeds for seehorse (i mean what else)

 

[GarlicJelly]

I feel just like you Chaotic about the fishing, it's just a side activity that feels like you finish and then never touch again. I don't know how you would work around the fishing contest but I feel like it could be something like Robins Bow game. There could be 5-6 challanges where you do stuff like catch X fishes in Y time (hardest ones every time), catch a big fish that's moving at double speed within 20 sec (around 2 tries before you fail), catch every single fish without failing (the fishing could be made harder and harder after every catch) and so on. Just because the fishing system is really easy now doesn't mean that it can't be made harder and actually become a challange. If you state that it's a challange then people would expect to fail.