Yes, this was a good nerf. I just started fishing for moat carp myself, and I'd forgotten that the bite rate was lower in towns. It didn't seem very profitable to fish for 2 hours to get 1 measely stack of carp. I'll move to an outside zone and see if it improves.
The point of this is that botters can't make gil in the outside zones anymore, because they will catch monsters anywhere they try, and end up dead sooner or later if they aren't there to deal with the mobs. The legit fishermen can use these zones without much of a change. So the botters are stuck with the shitty drop rates in towns on carp, and the legit fishers can catch whatever they want. Rogue Rig for Shall Shells? (Yes Please).
I'm almost halfway to my Haubergeron already, and all I had to do was... sell off every other piece of my level 60 thief gear
Streak
61 bst
60 thf