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others to use the application will become a captain for the invited player. Both the captain and the apprentice will receive one captain trip (a trip in which the apprentice receives some of the rewards for the captain's catch) a day, provided the captain has been seen recently. Players who fish at least once on any given day will also receive automated "deckhand checks" for the remainder of that day.
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Although a player can only cast every 15 minutes (excluding the use of resources), additional casts may occur when a member of the player's crew (a
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The goal of the game is to catch all the different types of fish in
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