The first meeting of the Tribble Breeders Club went well tonight. We had a good turnout, learned a bit about tribbles, and we each bred at least one tribble at the meeting itsself.
Each member in attendance got a tier 6 tribble with appropriate food to create a tier 7, so it was a fun hands on way to learn how to breed them.
Here is what we learned:
Tribbles come in 8 different tiers, with varying types and potency of buffs, either damage, damage resistance, health regen, or in lower tiers, a simple health buff.
A detailed account of the different types, can be found here: http://stofan.comxa.com/databank/tribbles.php
A similar chart, a bit less interactive, but with more food details, can be found here: http://stowiki.org/Guide:_Tribble_Breeding
Key points to remember: Tribbles breed when they eat, and they eat once per hour. To breed with desirable results, you must feed strategically. This means you give a specific subspecies a specific food.
To actually breed them, first make sure you have no food or tribbles in your inventory or else the offspring will likely not be what you intend. Add a single tribble and a single food item, and wait, within an hour, it will eat the food, and make the baby you want.
Anybody that has the special c store tribbles, either riviera, or photonic, can treat them as if they were any tier 4 tribble, and create tier 5 offspring. We are still investigating if this works with tribble of borg, and fluidic space tribbles.
Tribble Food bank: Because the food required to breed high end tribbles can be hard to come by, i have established a food bank on one of my toons. If anybody needs to see if I have a certain food item, or wishes to make a donation, please contact me by in game mail @six-of-nine. Food items in highest demand are Romulan Osol Twist, Heart of Targ, Quadrotriticale, Tulaberry Wine, Romulan Ale, Tranya, Cardassian Taspar Egg, and Jumbo Romulan Mollusk.