Last year, I put together a post describing how to acquire and raise Risian Birds. I also compiled information from the community on what different stages, mutations, and breeds looked like. While the old post had lots of helpful information, differences in the Summer Event would make it quite confusing. So I am starting again, building on the same data but accounting for new information from 2014.
How to raise your Risian tropical bird
To start off, you're going to need a Risian Tropical Bird Egg. You can get these randomly from Horga'hns in the Horga'hn hunt that goes on at about 23 minutes after each hour. You can also buy eggs for 150 favors, which averages out to three hunts' worth of rewards.
Hatching your egg
Hatching the egg is simple. Talk to the Ornithologist (on the second floor of the Shopping Promenade) and accept the assignment to hatch your egg. It takes two scientists and has no critical success option. It will take 24 hours and give you a random bird chick.
Raising your chick
Talk to the Ornithologist again, and pick the breed of bird you have. Then, select the assignment to raise your fledgling. As your bird grows, you will be able to select the appropriate assignment for each age bracket. This takes 24 hours, and scientists with peaceful or seductive traits will increase your chance to mutate your bird into a tufted variant. Biologists will lower your critical chance, but purple scientists of other disciplines are rather good at increasing critical chance.
This year, you can purchase blue Risian Geologists with both crit traits from the vendor on the far end of the Promenade for 200 favors. If you have the 'Master Relaxer' accolade (complete a bunch of accolades across the island), you can get a purple geologist with both crit traits for 1000 favors. These can be very helpful, but you'll have to decide if they're worth the favors (Thanks, admrenlarreck!)
Raising your tufted bird
If you're lucky enough to have your bird 'mutate' on a critical success, you will receive a tufted version of your breed. These have their own raising assignments, but these operate pretty much the same as normal ones, just without a mutation chance.
Bird type information
On the surface, tufted/normal birds seem the same as the ornamented/normal winter epohhs. Birds of each breed increase in size as they go from chick/hatchling to fledgling to adult to senior. They also get slightly more vivid colors and long tufts of feathers on a critical success. There are, however, a few anomalies, especially in the unique coloration of Tufted Adults, which is lost when they are raised to Tufted Seniors. Here is a
picture in the dev blogs that includes some of the variants.
Note: I will order the colors when written as in this 'diagram':
________((((________<=< ____________primary/
stripe/
feathers ________((((Seaspray
Normal - red/gold/blue (first row, first column
here)
Tufted - red/yellow/blue with tufts
Adult Tufted - green/yellow/blue with tufts (third row, first column
here)
Dusk Diver
Normal - navy/pale yellow/blue (second row, first column
here)
Tufted - navy/yellow/blue with tufts
Adult Tufted - blue/light blue/maroon with tufts (fourth row, first column
here)
Grotto Glider
Normal - olive/red/gold (first row, second column
here)
Tufted - olive/red/gold with tufts
Adult Tufted - green/red/yellow with tufts (third row, second column
here)
Passion Wing
Normal - pink/gold/purple (first row, third column
here)
Tufted -pink/yellow/purple with tufts
Adult Tufted - hot pink/red/indigo with tufts (third row, third column
here)
Firespray
Normal -dark maroon/white/maroon (second row, third column
here)
Tufted - dark maroon/yellow/magenta with tufts
Adult Tufted - red/orange/yellow with tufts (fourth row, third column
here)
Sunset Streamer
Normal -magenta/pale yellow/orange (second row, second column
here)
Tufted - magenta/yellow/orange with tufts
Adult Tufted - maroon/white/green with tufts (fourth row, second column
here)
Bird of Paradise
This bird, seen at the bottom of this
picture, is not attainable by players. It exists only at the Vista points associated with the 'The Big Year' accolade. Interacting with all of the Birds of Paradise will grant you this accolade and the title 'Ornithologist'.
Anomalies
Last year we noticed a few bugs in some of the bird forms. Untufted Passion Wing adults looked like Seasprays, and untufted Passion Wing fledglings looked like tufted Passion Wing fledglings. I will update if these are confirmed as either fixed or still existing this year.
If you notice anything about the Birds that is different from what I have here, or something that is no longer accurate as of 2014, please speak up! And thanks to all those who posted in last year's thread on bird color variation.
Comments
Two thumbs up for this guy. and I agree to the quote as well.
you might want to add in that You can get blue and purple geologists that have both the Seductive and Peaceful traits for Favors on Risa.
Blue is 200 favors
Purple is 1000 favors and you have to have the Master Relaxer accolade complete
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@ren_larreck
Thanks! I'll update the post with that information.
Conjoined, Re-emergence, and . . .
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
If you have already a purple science doff, just use it. I get about 25% critical chance just using a purple warp theorist and a purple astrometric scientist but WITHOUT critical traits. And still i get the same (more or less) critical chance.
Getting the Risian Purple Doffs would be nice since I would eventually like all my Doffs to be Purple quality.
However, I can't really justify using 1,000 favors to get each one. As of last night I have been selling favors for 12,500 ECs each that means each of these Doffs costs the equivalent of 12.5 million ECs. Additionally, mutated birds are not worth any more than normal birds. All birds of a particular age group gives the same number of marks regardless if they are normal, mutated, or breed.
I started playing STO in Jan 2014 so I will assume that the value of favors will continue to drop on the Exchange over time. Perhaps when they drop to 4,000 ECs each (or less) I would consider using favors to buy a purple Doff, but that's still 4 million ECs. I need to review the various Doff missions to see if those traits are very useful for the missions I prefer to focus on.
Two purple non-Biologist Science doffs without either critical trait gives 20% chance. For everyone that doesn't know, you don't use Biologists on these assignments because there is effectively no failure or disaster chance, so using something that increases success will cost you critical chance, since that increase in success rate can only come from the critical rate.
This isn't true. A Tufted bird will trade in for the same amount of marks as one level of development higher of a regular bird. For example, a Tufted Adult bird will trade in for 60 marks, the same amount as a Normal Senior, and a Tufted Senior will trade in for 100 marks.
I'm pretty sure this is a glitch that pops up every now and then for Cryptic's website. I've had pics not be viewable on devblogs before, the best I can suggest is to try a different browser. There's probably a better workaround, though. I'll see if there's a version of that picture hosted elsewhere, too. All my links go to the same picture, btw.
Conjoined, Re-emergence, and . . .
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w299/fishkeeperjim/1e3967a4663343a5d2511928dc8e72171372232086_zps858d66a3.jpg
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@ren_larreck
Thanks! I'll update the links. Hopefully this will be friendlier on various browsers.
Conjoined, Re-emergence, and . . .
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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@ren_larreck
Agreed 100%
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Wtf.. only 60 marks?? only 100 marks??? ow, im happy i am not planning to sell my fancy birds.. lol. I was not interested in marks, but now that i know that you only get that ammount, even less lol.
none of them give an inertia buff.... or any other buff for that matter. They are pets you can raise for vanity use or to sell for marks.... that is it.
Perhaps you're thinking of the Lohlunat Tribble?
Details:
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Lohlunat_Tribble
Scroll down to "Notes" for instructions on how to get one.
If needed, see also this page regarding Tribble Breeding.
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
Either way, I have a screen shot from in game where one is right there beside the player who has it as a pet. So my question is, how do we obtain it? Because they look way cooler than the ones currently allowed through the Ornithologist Doff Missions. I have sent Cryptic a ticket about it too...with the image, awaiting advice from them.
If I could send an attachment on here of it I would let all see it so they could understand my conundrum. This is according to my posting rules as follows
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http://imgur.com/gallery/kopl4
Hopefully that works for you all.
Also to add further mystery to this...I finally heard back from Cryptic about this same issue. Here is their reply as follows: :rolleyes:
Deleted out...now
I think that is so much bull. First of all I have posted on the forum...duh and second of all I have tried twice to talk to the people who have these guys in game and no one will talk back either local or private pm. Sheesh! :mad:
At least all of you good and fine folks now have the information too. Hope you can make some headway with it. For I think something fishy is going on.
I'm afraid I don't see any bird that's supposed to be a Bird of Paradise.
Regarding the response from Cryptic. First, you'll probably want to edit your post and remove it. It's against forum rules to post private conversations in the public forums. There's no way for the public to validate the claim that the message really came from Cryptic, and often (though not in this case) there is actual private information included that shouldn't be shared.
Second, yeah, that's a pretty typical response. The devs do post often, and Dev Blogs are made for certain topics, but otherwise Cryptic provides very little in the way of "help files" or "training" on how to play the games, they expect the player to figure it out on their own as part of the "fun" of exploring/playing the game, either by themselves or from the community. That's just the way it is.
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I have seen the other type Paradise bird though with the blue, yellow, and green patterns by owners in game too based on the image comparison of the one on the first row on the far left. Alas, I will if I see these guys before the event is over or in game afterwards, will make better effort to get something legitimate to view as far as screenshots. I'm a rookie at this...:o
As far as the previous post, I edited out the Cryptic response as asked and informed of. I just wanted it to be known, I tried and that was the answer to my effort at finding out the deal behind my question. Hints why I got on the forum in the first place...lol Because I couldn't get answers in game and via response from Cryptic. Well it's a learning curve for me of course, but at least I got a hold of a new tool in the process and informed on posting edicate. Thanks