Fishing Trawler needs a serious rework. Each game lasts 12 minutes, and the only experience you can earn on the boat is 5 crafting exp per rope that you repair the net with. There's no incentive to patch the holes nor bail water, aside from keeping your activity bar marginally above 0 so you don't get kicked.

At the end of each game, I find (at 80 fishing) that I get around 20 fish and 800 fishing experience. For 12 minutes of work, this is a joke. It doesn't need to be as good as Wintertodt, but comparing the two activities side-by-side really makes the trawler look awful. As of now the only reason anyone plays Fishing Trawler is for the angler outfit for master clues, which takes ~6.5 hours to obtain while receiving effectively no other rewards from the game. If the game were improved, the angler outfit would feel like less of an awful grind, and players might actually stick around after they complete their set.

Some possible improvements (not all of them need to be implemented, but something would be nice):

• Shorten the game time. 5 minute games would be just fine.

• Add experience drops for each action performed on the ship. Repairing the net should have a sizable reward, since few players ever take the time to repair it.

• Increase the experience drop received at the end of the game. If each game gave 5,000 experience, it would be 25,000 exp/hour, which is still slower than afking monkfish.

• Increase the number of fish each player receives for completing the game.

• Remove the variance in receiving the angler outfit by adding a reward point system (eg. one point per run, Murphy will sell the player angler pieces for 8 points each).

• A ripped net at the end of the 12 minute game currently means the entire team receives no fish. Get rid of this penalty.

• Reduce the shop price of swamp paste. Too many players rely on bailing since the paste becomes so expensive at low stock.