J_3

You dont need any exclusive gear or equipment in order to win competitions, you just need to know what youre doing and how to fish the comp (or be lucky). People have done 1000's of comps, and by doing so you will learn a thing or two on how to fish them. Trust me, if you do the same amount of comps or if you have 1000's and 1000's of hours in this game, you will also learn how to fish in comps. Make the comps more "equal"? Is it fair to those who literally have spent 1000's of hours to learn the game and take their edge away, just because there are other players who hasnt spent as much time to learn it? In what universe is that equal?

Yes. As long as your output dragforce is less or equal to the weakest link in your setup you are fine. In this case your line of 5.5kg. You could even use a reel with the max drag of 21kg if you would like, as long as your drag doesnt go above "5.5kg" (in this case). A reel with max 21kg that you can adjust in 12 steps (as an example only) would mean it applies (21kg/12steps = 1.75kg) 1.75kg per step, so 3:rd step in the drag would be 1.75kgx3 = 5.25kg of drag, and would also be fine with the 5.5kg line. Would apply for instance 5.51kg of drag, then its gonna break. And if you were to have your 6kg rod with a 7kg line on it, then your rod would be the "weakest link", and the same math applies to that, keep the output drag less or equal to "6kg".

Not that I am aware of. I do know that stringers have a higher durability than keepnets tho. But a general tips, try not to mind too much about repairing your gear. Most of it will last until the point where you have gotten money to advance and buy the next level equipment. All your equipment and gear will work as normal even if the durability is at 1%. So for instance you shouldnt bother reparing rods, reels etc that you most likely will not use again.

It did had VR support long time ago (during beta I think), but I believe they removed it.

2 and a half year, and you still think this is an issue worth putting their time on fixing?

Maybe there is, but they reported it the way its suppose to be reported. And it seems like this is only something thats affecting players on console (xbox and ps4/5), and the majority of FP player base is on PC. But if you havent already, just report it to support accordingly to their "Bug Reporting Procedure"

If you mean the steam version on PC, then no. xbox and win10 (microsoft store) is the same versions tho.

I dont believe that is possible. Never heard they done it before at least. You can always send them an email to support@fishingplanet.com and ask. I think you'll get a quicker reply there than here on the forum.

There is a boat with rod holders already, as of now it can only be bought via the congo dlc tho. Im dont now exactly how the license (patent) looks like, but the game "the fisherman" has license for rod holders with trolling function. Could also be that they cant make it for any other boats because of that.

Its not a bug, they actually patched this last year so you cant mix the groundbait with anything else.

Thats not a bug, thats how they made it to be. Make sure to reel in all your equipment before leaving a waterway or ending the game.

Try using a heavier sinker or maybe an open feeder instead of sinker. Can also just reel in a meter or two and just wait. This message is smth that everyone gets when fishing for eels, its not a bug to my knowledge.

Totally forgot about the fishy racing achievement you can do as well. 12 BC in reward for the 2:nd, and a kayak for the 3:rd which you could sell for 70 BC.

Yes it is. You can literally start on 0 BC and go to alberta and farm the achievements to gain 69 BC in less than a day, and then do the rest and earn it all back + the profit. Or, you can actually take the time thats given (until jan 4:th). Because once youre done with the gobys (which is the easiest and fastest mission) its free groundbait from there, which is all you need to do the rest. Lets also not forget that from christmas day (10 days before event ends) you can start collecting the presents everyday on the waterways, which will give both tokens and groundbait.