Excelsior

"Hooked On Excelsior"


March Fishing Contest
Time Frame: March 1st - March 31st

Prizes-
1st Place: 300 EDs
2nd Place: 200 EDs
3rd Place: Book of Adventurous Treasure Hunting and Deep Sea Relic Reclamation Book
4th Place: 100 EDs
5th Place: 120 PS of your Choice Deed
6th & 7th Place: 2 Million Gold Each
8th, 9th, & 10th Places: 1 Million Each

Only 6 Fish per person will be used for this contest. Your BEST Catch will be tallied and weighed for the TOP PRIZES above. Up to 5 others will be placed in a chest and pulled at random for the prizes below. If you have already dropped 6 fish, and you get a new personal best, you are welcome to drop that one, and it will replace your current BEST fish.

The Following Prizes will be chosen at RANDOM.

"Smelliest Fish" 120 Fishing PowerScroll
"Smallest Fish" 120 Fishing PowerScroll
"Scaled Up" 120 Fishing PowerScroll
"Scaled Down" 120 Fishing PowerScroll
"Tall-Tale Fish" 20 Exotic Fishing Lures
"Prettiest Fish" Large Aquarium
"Ugliest Fish" Large Aquarium
"Teeny-Weeny-Meanie" Fish Bowl
"Baby Shark (Do-Do-Da-Do) Large Dragon Ship
"Hook-Line-N-Stinker" Set of 4 Fish Related Cooking Recipes
"Kicking Bass" 10 Aquarium Food Crates
"SS Minnow" Small Ship Deed
"The One That Got Away" 115 Fishing PowerScroll
"A Fish With No Name" 110 Fishing PowerScroll
"Lost At Sea" Auto-Aligning Sextant
"Sea No Evil" 10 Green Fishing Nets
"Seems a Bit Fishy to Me" 10 Unopened Messages in a Bottle
"Tipping the Scales" Taxidermy Kit
"Lured into This" Taxidermy Kit
"Loan Shark" Taxidermy Kit
"Don't be so Shell-Fish" Taxidermy Kit
"Possible Piranha" Taxidermy Kit

2 more 120 Fishing PowerScrolls in the prize pool. Categories yet to be named.

(More Prizes maybe added as more people join the contest! So spread the word!!)

Rules-
Catch the largest "A Big Fish" and reel in some easy EDs!
Only "A Big Fish" caught during the Month of March will qualify. You can submit more than 1 fish, but only the largest will be considered your entry. Only 1 fish per player will be considered. Though, if you have multiple character on the same account, each character can have their own submission.

When "A Big Fish" is caught, it is automatically stamped with the name of the Player, The Number of Stones it weighs, and the Date and Time it was caught.
It will be this information that will be used to determine the winner. The winner will be the player that catches the Largest (Based on the Stone Weight) fish during the time frame.
If two players submit a fish that has the same exact Stone Weight, the fish caught FIRST (Based on the Date and Time Stamp) will be the tie breaker.

So the sooner you get out there and get fishing, the more likely you are to win in the case of a tie.

An Inbox will be placed on the steps of my home, to submit your entry. You can either hold your best catch til near the end of the contest, and submit just the one fish for weigh in. Or... As you get "A Big Fish" you can can drop it in the INBOX.
If I see more than one fish submitted by the same player name, I will only keep the largest of the two, or in the case of both fish being the same weight, the one kept will be the one caught earliest in the month.


Any Fish submitted that was caught BEFORE March 1st of this year, or AFTER March 31st of this year, will be deleted.
After the contest has ended, I will tally all entries, and post a listing of all entries, weight, date and time. And declare the winners.
After which the winners can contact me, to collect their winnings.

SIDE NOTE: If any player (or GM) wishes to help sweeten the Prize Pool, please PM me and let me know.
If this event is successful, I will happily do it more often.


Feel free to post any questions you have here, or contact me in-game for more information.


How to find my house... Goto "House Gates" Under CUSTOMS on the World Tele Step on the RED SHIELD
Then look for the Green Tele marked "Coalfire's Shortcut"

Sounds like fun!


Time to get Fishing!


Thanks for doing this contest! You Rock!

I'm not a GM but i'll sweeten the pot since I like these player run events.

Check your messages Coalfire.

Muolke wrote:I'm not a GM but i'll sweeten the pot since I like these player run events.

Check your messages Coalfire.

Thanks Muolke. I'll check as soon as I get home from work.

Thanks to a donation, prize awards have increased!!

I have already begun to see Fishing Submissions. In less than 24 hours of announceing this contest I have already had several entries dropped in my INBOX. And have received multiple PMs thanking me for bringing back this Fan Favorite Contest.

Remember if you submit more than 1 "BIG FISH". But only the largest fish will be used when determining the winner. So feel free to drop any fish you think is your biggest in the INBOX. I will happily keep track of which is your BEST submission.


My hope is to bring life back to one of my favorite pass times in this game. And maybe if we all chip in and make this contest a huge success, the powers that be (i.e. +Colibi) will make a note of it, and add some much needed additional content to this often overlooked aspect of the game.


Keep those submissions coming. And remember two things.
1) There is still PLENTY of time to work up your fishing skill to get a decent BIG FISH to enter with. Big Fish are a random 'drop' when fishing in DEEP WATER, with over 75% fishing skill.

2) In the case of a tie, the fish caught earliest (based on date and time) will be the tie breaker. So it is a good idea to get that big fish caught as quickly as possible, to increase your chances of winning in the case of a tie.


Feel free to post any questions you might have here, or PM me in game.

Here is another good tip for the potential anglers.

A fishing pole made from PURPLEHEART wood, has a 10% increased fishing speed bonus.

This will give your a far greater rate of fishing attempts per hour, and therefore a higher chance of getting a BIG FISH.

REMEMBER: Fishing AFK is NOT ALLOWED. Please respect the rules, and only fish when attentive at the keyboard. You WILL be subjected to random AFK checks.

Is this why my boat disappeared today? couldn't recall to it this afternoon could this morning

Trilleon wrote:Is this why my boat disappeared today? couldn't recall to it this afternoon could this morning

I am quite certain this contest in no way changed the codex of the game as to when, or how boat decay.

Can I win something for smallest Big Fish?

Pawpy wrote:Can I win something for smallest Big Fish?

If I get enough submissions I will consider doing a prize for smallest fish. But right now, still trying to get more people going for the top prizes.

So feel free to drop any TEENY TINY Big Fish you might get in the same INBOX. If/When we get enough submissions into the contest, I will announce a prize for Smallest Big Fish.

Another questions that has been asked: "Can we get our fish back after the contest?"
YES. If you wish to have your fish back after the contest, it will give you the option when I hand out prizes, and will PM and set-up a meeting for those that want their fish back, that did not win a prize.

So far, there have been 8 entries into the contest.

Coalfire wrote:So far, there have been 8 entries into the contest.

Any 200s?

Animol wrote:

Coalfire wrote:So far, there have been 8 entries into the contest.

Any 200s?

Keep all entries a mystery til the end. I'm evil like that.

Wow

Coalfire wrote:"Hooked On Excelsior"


March Fishing Contest
Time Frame: March 1st - March 31st

Prizes-
1st Place: 300 EDs
2nd Place: 100 EDs
3rd Place: 50 EDs
4th Place: 2 Million Gold
5th-10th Places: 1 Million Each