http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/tags/statistics Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:29:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/achievement-fish-tracker-is-inaccurate#post-5087 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:44:24 +0000 Talathan 5087@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I've been trying to compile some fishing data before 3.1 comes out. I want to be able to tell if Blizzard has changed the catch rate at my favorite fishing spot.</p> <p>While doing so, I also wondered exactly what the Achievement tracker counts as a fish. Specifically, i wanted to know whether or not Pygmy Suckerfish was included among them. I strongly suspected it wasn't - but my fish eating pet will eat them, while my meat eating pet won't. I also wondered whether the crate was counted as 1 "other thing" (if at all), or if it was the contents ("other things" being 3 if I got three Frostweave Cloth for example)</p> <p>So, before I started today's session I jotted down the Achievement tracker's data (Statistics tab)</p> <p>Fish caught: 8001<br /> Fish and other things caught: 9266</p> <p>Here is what I caught in Grizzly Hills open water (coordinates 29,57 - near Amberpine Lodge)</p> <p>Bonescale Snapper: 231<br /> Fangtooth Herring: 72<br /> Glacial Salmon: 57<br /> Pygmy Suckerfish: 40<br /> Reinforced Crate: 9<br /> Dark Herring: 1</p> <p>(Yes, they CAN be caught in open water! It took nearly 5000 casts here to get it though)</p> <p>One would think that the first three would be considered "Fish", right? That would mean I caught 360 fish.</p> <p>Here is what the tracker says after today's session:</p> <p>Fish caught: 8255 (an increase of only 254!)<br /> Fish and other things caught: 9553: (an increase of a mere 287!!)</p> <p>No matter how you mess with the numbers... the tracker is off - by a LOT!</p> <p>============</p> <p>UPDATE:</p> <p>While composing the original post, Blizzard did a rolling restart of the servers. Here is what the tracker says NOW:</p> <p>Fish caught: 8234<br /> Fish and other things caught: 9529</p> <p>The numbers went down for both of them - and I hadn't even done a thing! </p>