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Where are the tribbles?

voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
edited October 2012 in The Academy
My fleet recently completed the tribble starbase featured project. But whenever I go into our starbase, there's no tribbles. My friend says he can see them all over and I can hear the cooing of them. But I can't see them. It's not my graphics, I can see the pile of tribbles right next to Jones. I didn't really want the tribbles, but as long as we paid a good 200k dilithium I expect them to be there.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Some players will want to know what you did so you don't see tribbles. Personally, I enjoy playing kick the tribble.
  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    The first time I went onto the starbase after we completed the project...

    ...there were no tribbles to begin with. Only Jones and his pile. I want to play kick the tribble and I know I am when running around the base, but I can't see any! I don't know if it has to do with telling Jones to clean up the tribbles since there were none that I could see from the start.
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  • bumperthumperbumperthumper Member Posts: 513 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Ours spawn up near the conference room, on the glass flooring. I dunno if other bases are different, however. I ran around the entire base when we first got them till I finally realized I had forgotten to check the conference room, in which case I ended up running right through them on the way into it.
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  • f9thaceshighf9thaceshigh Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    can you see the tribbles in the mission "The Tribble with Klingons"? How about when someone uses the tribble launcher on the Explosive Party Popper?

    Try a force verify in the launcher
  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I haven't done The Tribble With Klingons (never bothered to go that far with story mission, I know, it's sad) but when tribbles spawn from a triolic pattern enhancer I can see them. I've kicked them around my bridge before.
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  • f9thaceshighf9thaceshigh Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    TBH my fleet hasn't done that FP, so I'm not sure if I'll be of much help. Maybe if a Dev sees this they can figure out what's wrong.


    BTW, devs don't usually hang out in the academy, you might want to post in the gameplay bugs forum next time to get more attention.

    Edit:
    I just realized something, what are your graphics settings? Judging by the picture in your sig they may be set too low.
  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I can see other tribbles on my graphics, I've tried pushing them up on the starbase, still no tribbles. I'm on my SB now, no tribbles.
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  • mbp101287mbp101287 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    They should be visible all around the ops level. The main center room should have them all over the floor. Also, from my experience, telling Jones to clean them up only lasts until the next time you enter the base, not permanently.
  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I've had this problem for months, since my fleet finished this project. There was one random time when they appeared, oddly, I also had engine trails showing at that time. But then the game had a massive crash and I haven't seen any since.
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  • lordfuzunlordfuzun Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Tribbles on starbases are Physcs objects. They are rendered solely player side inside of the game client. And physics object are dependent upon your video settings. If you settings are set too low, you won't hae any Physics objects. Or if you use advanced settings, if you have Max phsycis object turn to 0 your won't see them either.
  • icegavelicegavel Member Posts: 991 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    voporak wrote: »
    My fleet recently completed the tribble starbase featured project. But whenever I go into our starbase, there's no tribbles. My friend says he can see them all over and I can hear the cooing of them. But I can't see them. It's not my graphics, I can see the pile of tribbles right next to Jones. I didn't really want the tribbles, but as long as we paid a good 200k dilithium I expect them to be there.

    Tribbles are like Weeping Angels. They only exist when no one's looking at them.
  • uxvorastrixuxvorastrix Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I just wish they'd make it so you can shoot Tribbles, regardless of whether your are in combat or not. See a tribble on the starbase, should be able to shoot it, stomp it, stab it, poke it, vaporize it, or take it to the chef for cooking.
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  • bespin18bespin18 Member Posts: 78 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    ive been having the same problem as the OP, ive set my settings as high as possible and not seen any tribbles same with the physics setting in the advanced options menu. no matter what i do or tweak ive never seen any tribbles
  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I set all my settings to the highest as well. Still no tribbles. Yet others say I am kicking them around, i just cant see it.
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  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    And speaking of graphics, (don't remember if I said this or not) I tried turning them as high as possible. Lots of lag, no tribbles.
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  • paddedjrppaddedjrp Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I got them to appear by upping the maximum debris objects setting (might be called something slightly different as I'm not in game).

    I'm fairly certain I had to leave the starbase and come back for them to appear too. Maybe even restart the game...
  • grouchyotakugrouchyotaku Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    grylak wrote: »
    I set all my settings to the highest as well. Still no tribbles. Yet others say I am kicking them around, i just cant see it.
    voporak wrote: »
    And speaking of graphics, (don't remember if I said this or not) I tried turning them as high as possible. Lots of lag, no tribbles.
    Note: its not possible to set Physcs objects higher then what your system can support. (you could try, but...)

    So just how powerful a graphics/video hardware do you have in your computers?
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited October 2012
    icegavel wrote: »
    Tribbles are like Weeping Angels. They only exist when no one's looking at them.

    Good, God, I could do withou theose nightmares thanks:eek:
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  • bespin18bespin18 Member Posts: 78 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    my graphics card is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200, not sure wtf that means as im not THAT computer savvy lol
  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I don't know. It's on a laptop that's a few years old.


    I did get Tribbles up once. I had a good kick around with them. Oddly, my Galaxy class also had engine trails, despite them meant to have been removed by that point. Never been back.
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  • lordfuzunlordfuzun Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    There may also be some changes in Cryptic video card detection code. The cord tries to detect the type of video card that you have and sets some sane video setting values. The changed code may have reduced certain settings below what that were previously.

    Rather than just use the simple video quality slider, you can click on the advanced settings checkmark under the slider to enable "Advanced Video Settings". With advanced settings you can chance individual values like bloom, shadow settings, rendering distances, etc. Under Advaanced Setting is the Physics Object slider. If it's set to 0 (zero), no tribbled will be rendered. Crank it up a few notchs to be able to see your piles of Tribbles. But you may not want to set it too high if the game client sets it to zero. It can have a big impact on rendering speeds under certain conditions.
  • grouchyotakugrouchyotaku Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    bespin18 wrote: »
    my graphics card is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200, not sure wtf that means as im not THAT computer savvy lol
    It means your computer graphics system has NO HARDWARE SUPPORT for Physcs objects, and must be rendered in software. And with the limited CPU powers of a Laptop, rendering a large number of Physcs objects in software are going to be problematic...
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