Gone fishin'

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS, EVERYONE! 

I will continue to run this challenge, read below for mod DL link.

Gone fishin’

By now I’m sure you’ll have heard of SQUAD’s little april fools’ joke: a fishing mini-game in KSP!  It came with the latest pre-release build.  Sadly, I don’t have Steam, but I still thought I’d make a challenge out of it.  Basically, it’s about catching the most kgs of fish from various locations.  

 

You can fish on any planet with water, including the Admin pond on kerbin, so there are three categories:

 

Backyard pond

This is only in the Admin pond.

Scoring is total weight of fish (in kg) * 1

 

Deep-sea fishin’

This is for any fish in Kerbin’s normal water.

Scoring is weight of fish (in kg) * 1.5

 

Eveil fish

Fish on Eve!

Scoring is weight of fish (in kg) * 4

 

Laythe’s flying fish

Fish on Laythe!

Scoring is weight of fish (in kg) * 2

 

*2 multiplier for returning the Kerbal that did the fishing to Kerbin safely (Only counts for Eveil fish and Laythe’s flying fish)

 

You first must download this mod:

You start fishing by getting within ~5 meters of a bit of water with a Kerbal on EVA, then right-click the Kerbal and click start fishing.  You must be landed, not splashed down.  You can also fish from a seaplane or boat, as long as you’re standing on it.  It’s sometimes a bit tricky to get the button to appear, try quicksaving/quickloading, jumping up and down, and walking away from the water and back again.  

 

When you you click start fishing, a pop-up should appear to tell you how to fish.

 

 

Scoreboard

1. @HamnavoePer 75.4 * deep sea 1.5 = 113.1
2. @nobodyhasthis214.6kg * deep sea 1.5 = 21.9

 

Edited April 8, 2016 by Mad Rocket Scientist

[HafCoJoe]

Ha! This is brilliant! I hope they keep it in the final release. Could be fun seeing what it does for PR

[nobodyhasthis2]

This.  As far as I know it has been in for a while in the beta. There still a few graphics glitches on the land but the water is looks finished. guess someone at Squad decided to make us look at it more. 

Edited April 1, 2016 by nobodyhasthis2

[smjjames]

Tried doing it off the coast off the bat, kinda hard with no skill (also I slid off the vessel while fishing and it still works)

 

So, I went to the fake pool (it really is still fake water) and did some training. 

[AlphaAsh]

Ok I think I'm getting the hang of this but I keep forgetting to screenshot. Bleargh. Hope I can actually get another whopper like the last one.

[GoSlash27]

1 hour ago, AlphaAsh said:

Ok I think I'm getting the hang of this but I keep forgetting to screenshot. Bleargh. Hope I can actually get another whopper like the last one.

Yeah, I'm having the same problem. I'm used to using CTRL+ Print screen for screen caps, but the info disappears as soon as I hit CTRL.

There's got to be a better way to set that up.

Although none of my catches have been "whoppers" so far...

Best,
-Slashy

Edited April 1, 2016 by GoSlash27

[regex]

Totally gonna download this...

Edited April 1, 2016 by regex

[smjjames]

Caught an 8.4 kilo Arctic Fanged Kod so far....

[nobodyhasthis2]

8 minutes ago, smjjames said:

Caught an 8.4 kilo Arctic Fanged Kod so far....

Try harder 

Jeb not laughing now at night when the tide comes in I also notice

 

[Elowiny]

I really hope they keep this feature in the official release. It would give us something to do in EVA!

[nobodyhasthis2]

@Mad Rocket Scientist 14.6kg * deep sea 1.5 = 21.9 points for me so far.

I suspect that someone will be posting from Eve with a bigger score.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Just now, nobodyhasthis2 said:

@Mad Rocket Scientist 14.6kg * deep sea 1.5 = 21.9 points for me so far.

I suspect that someone will be posting from Eve with a bigger score.

I'll put you on the scoreboard!

[smjjames]

Got a big one from Eve!

[DoctorDavinci]

Fishing in Kerbal ... Fishing trip in a few weeks

[nightingale]

Now the challenge can start for real!  Let's get fishin'!

 

[YargJay9991]

Hey @Mad Rocket Scientist,

Scott Manley showed how anyone could activate it. See it below.

Happy Flying

YargJay9991

[AlphaAsh]

24 minutes ago, YargJay9991 said:

Hey @Mad Rocket Scientist,

Scott Manley showed how anyone could activate it. See it below.

Happy Flying

YargJay9991

That was the April Fool. That was the joke. You actually do need the mod. Scott was just playing along.

[YargJay9991]

12 hours ago, AlphaAsh said:

That was the April Fool. That was the joke. You actually do need the mod. Scott was just playing along.

Oh DRAT!! I fell for it pretty good....

[Mikki]

Best challenge along the Jool-5 and Stock payload fraction challenge!

Where`s my fishing rod!!! Aaarrrhhh!

[nobodyhasthis2]

We are going to need a bigger boat !

50ft trawler link

[GoSlash27]

YargJay9991,

 Yeah you did

 Did you notice the hex code you needed to enter to enable it?

  41 70 72 69 6c 20 46 6f 6f 6c

 Try plugging that into an ascii conversion.

Best,
-Slashy

[TheUnamusedFox]

Oww.  This mod is interesting but my wrist hurts.

Edited April 3, 2016 by lagcity613
fix link

[Moesly_Armlis]

23 hours ago, GoSlash27 said:

YargJay9991,

 Yeah you did

 Did you notice the hex code you needed to enter to enable it?

  41 70 72 69 6c 20 46 6f 6f 6c

 Try plugging that into an ascii conversion.

Best,
-Slashy

Do not know why I waited to use the ASCII convertor until I had the save file opened in notepad editor and Actions located and about to paste it there.

[HamnavoePer]

75.4kg fish deep-sea fishing

75.4 * 1.5 = 113.1

 

Edited April 4, 2016 by HamnavoePer

[DoctorDavinci]

9 hours ago, HamnavoePer said:

75.4kg fish deep-sea fishing

75.4 * 1.5 = 113.1

 

Pics or it didn't happen