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Depending on your time zone the FHW starts around midnight GGS time July 4th.
Happy Independence Day USA
I did try using all of one pool up but I kept getting more pools of the same. Oh well. It is all good now.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY USA!
Most of the time I either have shellfish or just had shellfish, but let a FHWE come along and for days there are not shellfish.
Is it a glitch? It is not happening with lower fishing/game levels. This is the 3rd or 4th time in a row we have started with no access to shellfish. And the other player at my level also has not seen shellfish for 2 days. Something is not right. Please look at it. It is hardly fair to ALWAYS NOT give us the fish we need to start the event.
(Of course in your defense, I will say that I had a tiny little 90 shellfish pool. It was like a sip in a desert. - but I can hardly say I will be able to start, it will throw me very behind right from the beginning, through no fault of my own)
I spent gold last time when you did this to me, but not this time - in fact, never again. If your are unfairly selecting against my level, I will not make up for it by spending gold. Why should I encourage you?
OH McGOO YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN
Is the report bad or it is a bug in calculating the loss? The shown report has 34% loss !! It should be impossible!
It happens every day !!
As you are able to get better/bigger ships the loss won't seem as much because you are able to bring in more fish at once.
Personally I just use Fish Caught Per Hour & Travel Speed crews in all my ships
@dpbplue (US1)
There are 5 different hazards. You can be hit by 1 of them, 2 of them, or ALL of them. The % chance that is listed is the chance of getting hit by each one of the hazards.
So if you're fishing the top right pool for instance, which has a 20% chance of getting hit by each hazard, that means you have a:
20% chance of getting hit by a whirlpool.
20% chance of getting hit by a Storm
20% chance of getting eaten by a shark.
20% chance of getting hit by an iceberg.
20% chance of encountering an Octopus.
That doesn't mean you have a 100% chance of getting hit by SOMETHING, as probabilities don't work that way.. But chances are you're going to be hit by at least 1 or 2 of those hazards, on average, every trip.
By contrast, the chances of getting hit by a hazard in the 2% chance pool is extremely low.
If you DO get hit by a hazard though, the number of fish you lose is pretty much random. In my testing I've seen anything from a 10% loss from 1 hazard to a 25% loss from 1 hazard. There might be a formula for it, but to my knowledge GGS hasn't told us what it is. is around 10%. See my post later in this thread with WascallyWabbit for the details.
At any rate, the number you're seeing on the pools (17%, 20%, 14%, whatever) is the chance of getting hit by each of the hazards, has nothing to do with how many fish you lose if you DO get hit by a hazard.
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Personally, I don't bother with the protection items. If I lose fish, so be it. I fill up by Level 6 Trawlers with nothing but Brigittes & Roys; enough Brigettes to cancel out the Travel Time, and then enough Roys to fish up however many fish are in that spot. Each trawler comes back in 2 hours & 45 minutes that way, full to the brim of 195 fish each, minus any lost to hazards.
It works pretty well, IMO.
I do know simple math and how to load boats, so that is not the problem, I don't have the time to figure out what time of day it is better, but the overnight fishing is totally useless, it has the most losses making it not worthwhile at all. I do keep the motor boats for now because they are good on the small shellfish pools and I can't get trawlers yet or upgrade my skipjacks until I get to a higher level. I like to be analytical about things but the problem with this game is that there are too many secret variables to figure out anything.
I cannot go fishing on any of my farms when I click on the fishing rod to go fishing it takes me to the tackle section
Ok, time to break out the Algebra book and answer this once and for all.
I never really cared before, so never looked into it that closely, but I think I can explain the "strange rounding errors".
176 + 19 = 195 total fish.
1 hazard
Hazard 1: 195*10% = 19.5 (rounded down to 19) = 176 Fish caught, 19 lost.
74 + 17 = 91 total fish.
2 Hazards
Hazard 1: 91 * 10% = 9.1 Fish lost (rounded down to 9). That leaves 82 fish
Hazard 2: 82 * 10% = 8.2 Fish lost (rounded down to 8). That leaves 74 fish.
Total Lost: 9+8 = 17
Looks like they're applying each hazard separately & sequentially instead of simultaneously.
86 + 19 = 105 Fish
Hazard 1 = 105 * 10% = 10.5 Fish lost (Rounded down to 10). Fish remaining = 95
Hazard 2 = 95 * 10% = 9.5 Fish lost (Rounded down to 9). Fish remaining = 86
Total Fish Lost: 10+9 = 19
Yep, that would be my guess.
Let's try another:
25 + 9 = 34 Total Fish, 3 hazards
Hazard 1: 34 * 10% = 3.4 Fish Lost, rounded down to 3. 31 Fish left.
Hazard 2: 31 * 10% = 3.1 Fish Lost, rounded down to 3. 28 Fish left.
Hazard 3: 28 * 10% = 2.8 Fish Lost, rounded UP to 3. 25 Fish left.
So that still works.
That's why I was seeing such weird numbers then, I was thinking the loss was being applied simultaneously instead of sequentially. But it makes perfect sense now.
You should lose 10% per hazard, so if you were really unlucky & got hit by all 5 hazards, you could lose 50% of your fish. If you hover over the number of fish deducted, it will tell you how many hazards you were hit by.
These 2 boats both caught the max 195 fish:
The 1st one 3x65 fish, was hit by 2 hazards; 6.5 (10%) rounded down to 6, 2x6=12, so 12 of each type of fish was lost.
The 2nd one 1x195 fish, hit by 1 hazard; 19.5 (10%) rounded down to 19, so 19 fish lost.
EDIT: @Southern (US1) LOL You are too quick!! - I spotted a fatal error in my calculations (that the total catch was not shown) and rewrote the post, but you got there in between lol
However, you did solve the mystery of that one with the 74 & 17, I never thought of doing each one separately, good thinking!
I agree this one can be put to bed now
PS. Though I would say on that last one, it would make more sense to hit an iceberg during a storm with a whirlwind, than to survive the 1st 2 hazards & then randomly crash into an iceberg hehe
@WascallyWabbit And here I thought I was developing E.S.P. or something, answering questions before they've even been asked!
There may still be some unforseen rounding issues, but I think this is close enough for government work, as they say. Gotta live up to my Number Cruncher title.