They definitely need to drop at least 10-20x more preserved 10 hour combat buff bps than they are doing now and test out how that ends up working and probably tweak again in a month by 10-20x-ing that number. I have seen firsthand doing 10-30 daily missions in a day sometimes don’t even get a single drop of any kind of 10 hr combat buff bps and max of 3 drops on best day. Since fishing came out I think I’ve made a total of 6 preserved combat filets, and 15x -10hr reloads, CC, crit dmg buffs. That wouldn’t be enough to sustain myself using buffs let alone selling.
Another big problem is the droprate of rare fish. For example 1 type can have an expensive lure that only one person has a monopoly on (this is the case with many lures) and then the fish is 1 catch per 5 hours. So burn a 200-2000p lure to catch a single fish and have it burn up whole lure practically. MA needs to jack up droprates on those fish + start dropping clicks of rare lures in the AI so 1 guy doesn’t have a monopoly just because he crafted on 1st day it came out and got the single drop of a ton of clicks.