Goldfish Scooping

Introduction
Goldfish Scooping is a part of the The Sunbreeze Festival! 2005 and 2006. It begins normally before the main event Azimuth Circle and can be done the entire festival season. It's your objective to get Goldfish Scooping points by catching and trading certain fishes to Goldfish Scooping Vendors.

Basics
There are four Goldfish Scooping Vendors infront of waters, where you can catch 3 goldfishes of diffrent worth:

First of all you need the correct fishing equipment: A Goldfish Bowl in your ranged slot and Super Scoops in your ammonition slot. A bowl can be get by goldfish scooping vendors under the topic "I'd like a bowl" for free. The only condition is ,that this bowl is your goldfish scooping points counter. If you get the idea to throw it away, all accumulated points so far are lost and you have to start with a new bowl from the beginning. The Super Scoops can be bought for 100 gil (stackable to 12) under "I want to buy a scoop" at the four vendors. If you are lucky and have one of those two items (Lady's yukata or Lord's yukata: both could be bought at the The Sunbreeze Festival! 2005 or quested at the Summerfestival 2004), you should equip your gender yukata now. The scooping improvement is very noticeable especially for Black Bubble-Eyes. The procedure is now to either type /fish or to use your ingame menu "Fishing" at the waters showed at the table above. You have to wait for a sentence like "a tiny goldfish appears". Press your confirm button/enter after this. You could also wait a moment till the gamesystem warns you, that you maybe loose the fish. There is also a message that you lost the fish out of sight, when you wait too long. Results are either you caught the fish, the fish slipped of your scoop or your scoop ripped (= lost the bait). The results differ very much. Yakutas help a lot for catching goldfishes. The waiting time after "the ... appears" seems also relevant. Pressing the confirm button immediatly results often in ripped scoops and waiting too long results in slipped fishes. You don't get fishing skillups, even if you have 0 skill, but your fishing skill also improves your results. Correct scooping needs a bit of training and timefeeling.

You can trade your goldfishes any time to the vendor, who rewards you with points. The points can be used under the topic "I'm ready for my prize".

And remember, dont eat the goldfishes: "What's eating you" (subtopic under "Tell me how to play", when you as one of the vendors).