Going along my usual route, i visit around 20 ponds. I travel around farm number 3900 and higher. My rod broke and to get the buoy bucks is either ;

I can't speak for everyone but about 2 out of 20 ponds are being used and it occured to me, exactly WHAT was i fishing for? There's no benefit in fishing except for a high skill in fishing. Are there amazing energy benefits? That's the only benefit i can imagine. It would have to compete with wines to be worth the cost of getting the rod. But maybe i just need a new perspective or i am missing some information somewhere. Someone please share some info so i can understand the need for fishing.

I understand going up in farming gets you access to better crops and better food. But the only use i see for fish is in the taskboard. You get access to getting an item for the union hearth thing. But that alone isn't even worth it either if you're not playing with the unions. Hard to be enthused when the hearths have no energy and you can't sabotage a hearth that doesn't have any energy. The flair has worn off on the union like it did with the neon zone, guilds, etc.

I think this game needs some sort of unification of gameplay. Right now it's like how it was at the end of chapter one. Buying watermint seeds at 20 coins each to sell watermint back at the store for 40. Yes, we sold back to store, no market.

Chapter one was nice because you were hit with missions to do and you had to pick which one you needed the reward more. Sometimes i had to stop one mission because i ran out of money and picked up in the middle of another mission i quit earlier to get the reward. Those were fun days. Now, i question what the goal is . Someone please change my thoughts into happier ones. I've been playing for over two years and it's a part of my day since, but i wonder why anymore. I'm sorry.

EDIT : Out of the 50 lands that had ponds between 91 and 2878, 2 people removed their ponds and at time of checking, only 21 were being used. So it seems some people are still fishing. We will see what that is like after their rod breaks.