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What's the story with Tribbles?

shireknightshireknight Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited February 2014 in The Academy
I don't know where I got them from but pretty much right from the start of the game I've had a couple of Tribbles, I didn't know what to do with them so I gave one to each of my Bridge Officers and I know they use them because on ground missions I can sometimes hear Tribble noises behind me.

About a week ago I noticed that there were a couple of Tribbles in my inventory so checked all the Bridge Officers to see which ones had put their Tribbles back in the inventory but they all still had theirs so I put these "spare" Tribbles into the bank.

Well today I went to the bank and I'll be dammed if I didn't have to delete six Tribbles because it's starting to fill up with them :eek:

What am I supposed to do with all these Tribbles :confused:
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  • daggermoondaggermoon Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    shireknight wrote: »
    I don't know where I got them from but pretty much right from the start of the game I've had a couple of Tribbles, I didn't know what to do with them so I gave one to each of my Bridge Officers and I know they use them because on ground missions I can sometimes hear Tribble noises behind me.

    About a week ago I noticed that there were a couple of Tribbles in my inventory so checked all the Bridge Officers to see which ones had put their Tribbles back in the inventory but they all still had theirs so I put these "spare" Tribbles into the bank.

    Well today I went to the bank and I'll be dammed if I didn't have to delete six Tribbles because it's starting to fill up with them :eek:

    What am I supposed to do with all these Tribbles :confused:

    Tribbles breed so keep them away from food

    http:// http://sto.gamepedia.com/Guide:_Tribble_Breeding
  • shockwave85shockwave85 Member Posts: 1,040 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    The tribbles you get as drops are fairly useless. They provide an out of combat heal, but your health regens pretty fast out of combat anyway. Other special tribbles are more useful, as they will provide passive buffs for up to 30 minutes when you use them, or provide bonus damage against a specific NPC race (Borg, Undine). For an easy to get and fairly useful one, first make sure you've completed the mission "Spin the Wheel", then purchase a Comet Cocktail from a bartender on Drozana. Let a tribble eat the Comet Cocktail, and you should have a Triolic Tribble. It gives a small boost to damage resistance.

    Klingons can feed standard tribbles to a cannibal tribble and turn the carcasses in for latinum. That's as useful as they really get.
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  • bejaymacbejaymac Member Posts: 448 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    KDF can also "cook" them (Doff mission), which will give you a blue quality ground consumable, feed that to a normal tribble and you get a cannibal.
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  • shireknightshireknight Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    daggermoon wrote: »
    Tribbles breed so keep them away from food

    http:// http://sto.gamepedia.com/Guide:_Tribble_Breeding

    Wait they're not eating the meals I've got stored in the bank are they? :eek:

    *runs to the bank*
    shockwave85 wrote: »
    The tribbles you get as drops are fairly useless. They provide an out of combat heal, but your health regens pretty fast out of combat anyway. Other special tribbles are more useful, as they will provide passive buffs for up to 30 minutes when you use them, or provide bonus damage against a specific NPC race (Borg, Undine). For an easy to get and fairly useful one, first make sure you've completed the mission "Spin the Wheel", then purchase a Comet Cocktail from a bartender on Drozana. Let a tribble eat the Comet Cocktail, and you should have a Triolic Tribble. It gives a small boost to damage resistance.

    Klingons can feed standard tribbles to a cannibal tribble and turn the carcasses in for latinum. That's as useful as they really get.

    bejaymac wrote: »
    KDF can also "cook" them (Doff mission), which will give you a blue quality ground consumable, feed that to a normal tribble and you get a cannibal.

    Thanks everyone "Spin the Wheel" just happens to be my next mission :D
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  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Yes, tribbles in your bank or inventory will eat whatever food you have. Ones on your Boffs will not eat anything, even if there's food on your Boff. Putting tribbles on your Boffs is a safe place. I stick all mine on my non-ground combat crew.

    Be happy if you only had 6 baby tribbles. I cam back to my bank one time to find a couple dozen and my rare foods gone. :(
  • lordfuzunlordfuzun Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Sheesh. I thought everyone knew that Tribbles + Food -> Lots more Tribbles.
  • shireknightshireknight Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    dracounguis wrote: »
    Yes, tribbles in your bank or inventory will eat whatever food you have. Ones on your Boffs will not eat anything, even if there's food on your Boff. Putting tribbles on your Boffs is a safe place. I stick all mine on my non-ground combat crew.

    Be happy if you only had 6 baby tribbles. I cam back to my bank one time to find a couple dozen and my rare foods gone. :(

    I just have :(

    They have completely cleared me out, I reckon I've lost a good ten meals/drinks (all different types) that were in the bank with them, they must have been pigging out for the last few days and I never noticed my stuff was vanishing.

    All Star Trek fans know what Tribbles do, I can't believe it never even crossed my mind that having food and Tribbles in the same place would be a bad thing, if the STO devs read this post they will all fall about laughing lol

    Well played devs, well played :D
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,965 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    dracounguis wrote: »
    Be happy if you only had 6 baby tribbles. I cam back to my bank one time to find a couple dozen and my rare foods gone. :(

    I had that problem, too, once. Needless to say, many tribbles got a personal introduction to the cold vacuum of space that day.
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  • diotwdiotw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    shireknight wrote: »
    I just have :(

    They have completely cleared me out, I reckon I've lost a good ten meals/drinks (all different types) that were in the bank with them, they must have been pigging out for the last few days and I never noticed my stuff was vanishing.

    All Star Trek fans know what Tribbles do, I can't believe it never even crossed my mind that having food and Tribbles in the same place would be a bad thing, if the STO devs read this post they will all fall about laughing lol

    Well played devs, well played :D

    Don't feel too bad Shire, I had the exact same thing happen when I got my very first Tribbles. XD
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  • fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I hope they replace the passive breeding system with an active one, a system where the player has to trigger the breeding. As it is now you cannot save tribbles and food in the same place. You can save them in the fleet bank and the account bank together. They don't breed there.

    Perhaps I would buy a tribble container for zen. A box that can contain a couple of tribbles and they cannot touch your food.

    Klingons, Nausicaans and Letheans cannot use tribbles, not the regular ones that drop and are breeded from those . They can use the special ones. I do not understand this. A tribble is a tribble.
  • confedinblueconfedinblue Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    fovrel wrote: »
    I hope they replace the passive breeding system with an active one, a system where the player has to trigger the breeding. As it is now you cannot save tribbles and food in the same place. You can save them in the fleet bank and the account bank together. They don't breed there.

    Perhaps I would buy a tribble container for zen. A box that can contain a couple of tribbles and they cannot touch your food.

    Well, then they wouldn't be tribbles.

    Tribble + food = A whole lot of tribbles
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  • damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    fovrel wrote: »
    Klingons, Nausicaans and Letheans cannot use tribbles, not the regular ones that drop and are breeded from those . They can use the special ones. I do not understand this. A tribble is a tribble.

    Actually they can use breed tribs. My one Boff is walking around with one of the tiger striped buggers and she used it last night while I was doing Cold Call. Bugger jumped about a foot when she brought it out and tried to pet it. :rolleyes:
    A Trill, a Gorn, a Jem'Hadar, Bejoran and a Voth walk into a bar, and the Bartender asks "What is this a Joke?"
    "Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
  • bberge1701bberge1701 Member Posts: 726 Bug Hunter
    edited February 2014
    I had a funny incident happen with tribbles way back when I first started playing STO. I was playing "The House Always Wins" with my Klingon captain, when out of nowhere I hear a tribble screaming. I looked around, no tribbles. A few minutes later, it happened again. It took me a while to figure out what was going on.

    Some time earlier, I had picked up a tribble. Having no idea what to do with it, I had handed it to my science officer. She was trying to use it, and we know that (normal) tribbles don't like Klingons.... :)
  • royalsovereignroyalsovereign Member Posts: 1,344 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    I had that problem, too, once. Needless to say, many tribbles got a personal introduction to the cold vacuum of space that day.
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  • shockwave85shockwave85 Member Posts: 1,040 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Of course not, that would be cruel. I beamed them into the sun, where they'll be no tribble at all.

    What? There weren't any Klingon ships around.
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  • salynraydersalynrayder Member Posts: 139 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    shireknight wrote: »
    I don't know where I got them from but pretty much right from the start of the game I've had a couple of Tribbles, I didn't know what to do with them so I gave one to each of my Bridge Officers and I know they use them because on ground missions I can sometimes hear Tribble noises behind me.

    About a week ago I noticed that there were a couple of Tribbles in my inventory so checked all the Bridge Officers to see which ones had put their Tribbles back in the inventory but they all still had theirs so I put these "spare" Tribbles into the bank.

    Well today I went to the bank and I'll be dammed if I didn't have to delete six Tribbles because it's starting to fill up with them :eek:

    What am I supposed to do with all these Tribbles :confused:

    I promise I'm not making fun of you, but this is the best post I've ever read! I had these same questions when I started.
  • mindshadow999mindshadow999 Member Posts: 241 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    dracounguis wrote: »
    Yes, tribbles in your bank or inventory will eat whatever food you have. Ones on your Boffs will not eat anything, even if there's food on your Boff. Putting tribbles on your Boffs is a safe place. I stick all mine on my non-ground combat crew.

    Be happy if you only had 6 baby tribbles. I cam back to my bank one time to find a couple dozen and my rare foods gone. :(

    I had some extra winter food in one bank, and somehow accidentally dumped a tribble in there when dealing with loot one day...

    It was a candy-striped tribblepocalypse the next time I looked in the bank. :eek:

    I've started keeping a cannibal tribble in every alt's inventory, to ensure that random tribbles that drop on ground missions are safely disposed of.
  • diotwdiotw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Cannibal Tribbles are a must on all my characters. Pretty easy to get on the Exchange, and you can either give the carcasses to your own KDF characters, or sell them to other people via the Exchange.
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  • rerednawrerednaw Member Posts: 159 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    shireknight wrote: »
    I just have :(

    They have completely cleared me out, I reckon I've lost a good ten meals/drinks (all different types) that were in the bank with them, they must have been pigging out for the last few days and I never noticed my stuff was vanishing.

    All Star Trek fans know what Tribbles do, I can't believe it never even crossed my mind that having food and Tribbles in the same place would be a bad thing, if the STO devs read this post they will all fall about laughing lol

    Well played devs, well played :D

    No worries. I am a lifer since alpha and did not realize this either. I figured that if tribble plus food on my officers' *pockets* did not produce more tribbles...surely tribbles in stasis (a.k.a. the bank) would be fine next to all those storage compartments full of quadrotriticale. :eek:

    Cannot believe they still use those 22nd century tech level storage in the 25th. :D

    Had not heard of a tribble predator since the Animated Series...did not know we had cannibal tribs in sto. Learn something new every day.

    I just wish you could transport them to an enemy ship...
  • damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    diotw wrote: »
    Cannibal Tribbles are a must on all my characters. Pretty easy to get on the Exchange, and you can either give the carcasses to your own KDF characters, or sell them to other people via the Exchange.

    I had not considered selling the carcasses for some reason...
    A Trill, a Gorn, a Jem'Hadar, Bejoran and a Voth walk into a bar, and the Bartender asks "What is this a Joke?"
    "Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
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