this is a really nice idea. Props.

Autostacking = do want

I can't speak for other fishers but I am pretty stringent about how I organize my stacks. For fish that are cod and above I like to average my stacks together into groups separated by increments of 50 mana or life (uncooked).

For example with catfish I like to go 100 life / 150 life / 200 life / 250 life / 300+ life and 50 mana / 100 mana / 150 mana / 200 mana / 250 mana / 300+ mana

Stacking them all together as I go along wouldn't be very useful because I would end up with big stacks that have low average heal per use Assuming autostacking is possible I'd like something that allows us to define filters to stack fish with values between xx - xx life/mana per use into a specific stack. I have no idea how feasible this would be in terms of programming though.

Other stacker ideas:
I'd exempt perfect fish from autostacking unless they could be set to autostack together with other perfect fish, because those are imo very useful to save for suffusencing purposes. Who wants a 600 life cod?
Prevent mana and life fish from autostacking together and keep rare fish separate too.

Other fishing ideas that have been running through my mind post update:
Perhaps it is time to revisit the 1 second fish usage timer?
Perhaps we can get unstacking too? I love my 1000+ sardine and herring stacks but not everyone can afford them lol.
Apply the stacking ability my main character's fishing/cooking/suffusencing ranks across my entire account so I can stack on my mules.

Wish the fish would appear in the drop box, not in your inventory

that kinda makes me think u didnt read what everybody else posted.

but how do u manage do have 8 spare slots when u have so many different types of fish u keep?

Quote (Tibor @ Oct 9 2010 04:59pm)

that kinda makes me think u didnt read what everybody else posted.

but how do u manage do have 8 spare slots when u have so many different types of fish u keep?

That kind of makes me think you're a random but thanks for posting anyway.

I wrote my response to Paul and offered some of my experience. Secret from the Boss Fisher Pimp Daddy Cylon - buy a vault to store extra stacks.

lol joe

Make it so it's like any other drop if you are in a group. No auto pickit, it's just a drop like anything else. Anyone would have the chance to pick it up, but that would be the give and take of making it kosher for the fishermen out there. I know the fishers would like to pick up their own fish if the fish are nice, but we would also want to pick up our own wells if the well is nice. Make it so fishing drops are like any other drop. I think that will solve any issue for the time being. Most fishers like Joe(Cylon) can either go find a group and a well, or solo to a well or just use the fishing pond. Once set up they won't be wasting a lot of time trashing the junk fish.

Well that's an idea Mike, though I don't think people will want to see just how much fish I can spam the item box with and I'd rather keep my fish for myself

@Njaguar:

Here's an idea i could suggest about auto stacking fish.
Having a "fishing option" window, and be able to add rows ( kind of a ListView ).
You get to enter say : Tier # | XX+ Life | XX+ Mana | Which slot position you want it added in.

For example you could have

Tier 1 | 50+ Life | 0+ Mana | Slot 1 -- That would add tier 1 fishes with 50+ life and 0+mana to the slot 1.
Tier 2 | 60+ Life | 10+ Mana | Slot 2
Tier 1 | 50+ Life | 0+ Mana | Slot 3 -- That would actually not do anything because it would be into slot 1 already.
Tier 3 | 100+ Life | 0+ Mana | Slot 1 -- That would trash it because slot 1 is already occupied by a tier 1 stack.
And default, if not in the list, would go into trash.

I'm not so much of a fish skiller, but thought I could give my opinion

the whole "auto-stacker" thing is a waste.

whats wrong with having it the way it was before? just come up in the drop box?

when im fishing for tier 2's or 3's i dont even look at the tier 1's. but now i have to not only throw them into the trash can, but the tier doesn't display in the inventory, so i have to hover to find that.

IMO: put it back to the old way.