[Remsus]

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/e...ticle/11550673



Engage in a No Win Scenario, and get a new space set based on the Protostar from Star Trek: Prodigy!
By Ambassador Kael August 03, 2023, 07:00 AM

From across the quadrants, Captains of all species and creeds understand the value of occasionally pushing themselves to the limits – to find out just how far their equipment, and their willpower, can take them, and just how much fight they can muster when the situation is at its direst. Screw your courage to its sticking place, and dive headlong into these classic tests of mettle – dare to face the No Win Scenarios.

This Event will include multiple TFOs previously featured individually in a combined Featured Event that will allow players to choose their preferred test each day, while earning Daily Progress toward a new grand prize reward. Defend the Kobayashi Maru in a starship-based simulation in a hazard-strewn space environment, or take on wave after wave of randomized enemy encounters within the dangerous confines of the Arena of Sompek.

Participating in this Event will give all players the opportunity to win a new space set based on the Protostar from Star Trek: Prodigy for their entire account! Keep reading for details on these items, how you can participate in the Event, and what additional prizes may be earned.

Take the Tests Again

Two existing activities will be participating in this Event:

Arena of Sompek – Ground TFO

In the interest of strengthening the Alliance against its enemies, and providing entertainment, the Klingons have agreed to allow other members to participate in the legendary qaD HoS event. You’ve been invited to Qo’noS to participate as representatives of the Alliance. It will be good practice for the battles ahead, and should be good for morale.

The Event version of the simulation ends after you complete Round 7.

Kobayashi Maru – Space TFO

The legendary Kobayashi Maru simulation has been updated to represent more of the risks of the modern galactic environment. Defend the ill-fated E.C.S. Kobayashi Maru from attackers amidst increasingly-dangerous waves of enemies, while avoiding randomized obstacles and hazards.

The Event version of the simulation ends after you complete Round 6.

While most of the action players will engage in during these TFOs have not changed for this event, a few minor adjustments have been made to each that will be present for the length of this Event’s run:

• As noted above, each has a fixed duration during this Event. Prior to the designated ending point, neither can be failed.
• During this Event, the Untimed/Infinite versions of these TFOs will be temporarily disabled.
• Each completion will reward a Choice of All Marks (replacing the usual Mark rewards)
• Both TFOs have had their Cooldown Timers temporarily disabled

Review Your Results

Viewing the details of this Event in-game is as simple as opening your Journal and navigating to the “Events” tab. From here, all of the pertinent information is at your fingertips, as are simple-to-use buttons that allow quick access to the associated Content for this Event.

As a core feature of the updated Event System, all Progress Points gained toward completion of the Event are shared across your entire Account, and all earned Progress is automatically tracked and applied toward completing the Event.

Players will be able to earn their Daily Progress once every 20 hours. Either of the above TFOs may be played as much as you like each day, so pick and choose how you prefer to gain Progress each day, and mix it up as much (or as little) as you like!

Event Campaign

The No Win Scenarios Event will be one of the Events participating in the latest Event Campaign. Each day that your Daily Requirement is met, the standard daily allotment of 50 Event Campaign Progress will be applied to your progress toward the completion of the Event Campaign’s Grand Prize.

Rewards

Accruing a total of 14 Days’ worth of Daily Progress will allow you to claim the Grand Prize of this Event. This reward includes all of the following:

Protostar Experimental Technologies Space Set

Based on one of Starfleet's most intriguing and mysterious starships, the Protostar, this set of space technology will bring you to the bleeding edge of modern spacefaring tech. This set comes with a Warp Core or Singularity Drive, and Omni-Directional Beam, and a Shield. Here are the details:

Protostar Multiplicative Covariant Shield



The Protostar Multiplicative Covariant Shield grants you a unique, Protostar based visual, and includes a special bonus that causes shield regen to improve on facings where shield strength is low.

Protostar Omni-Beam Phaser



Protostar Dual Warp Core/Dual Singularity Core

Equipping mulitple items in the set creates bonuses for your ship. If you equip two out of the three pieces, you gain a bonus to shield drain resistance, and a bonus to critical chance for science powers. If you equip all three, you can the ability to offensively eject your warp core in combat. It looks a little something like this:



3x Featured TFO Reward Boxes

Each gives a choice of 1x Specialization Point or an Enhanced Universal Tech Upgrade

25,000 Dilithium Ore

Issued immediately for use as you see fit!

(Note: The Featured TFO Boxes and Dilithium Ore are only rewarded once, to the first character on your account that claims the Grand Prize.)

Bonus Rewards

After claiming the Grand Prize, you will unlock the option of earning additional Dilithium Ore each day that you continue participating in the content associated with this Event. Each day you earn the Daily Progress you will be automatically granted a bundle of Dilithium Ore.

This bonus reward will begin at 8,000 Dilithium Ore for the first day’s completion, then scales up with each subsequent bonus completion that you achieve. The more you play, the more you continue to earn!

Zen Buyout Option

For players interested in instantly completing this Event – whether that is due to worries over finding the play time to complete it, or simply wanting to move immediately into earning Bonus Rewards – we will be offering a method for buying out.

Within the Event UI, an option will be presented that allows you to purchase the remaining progress that you need, for a scaling amount of Zen. The base price for this service will be 2,000 Zen, but every single Daily Progress that you earn will reduce that price on a percentage basis. Thus, if you have already earned 7 Daily Progress (half of the 14 required), this price will be reduced for you down to 1,000 Zen. The more you play, the cheaper the Buyout Option becomes, dynamically!

A Second Chance

Once this Event has ended, your opportunity to earn Progress Points will have passed. However, the Event System will store the progress that you made long after the Event has expired. Based on this stored progress, the option to Buyout the rewards will remain available through a new “Second Chance” section of the Zen Store. The price for this buyout is the same as what is offered while the Event is active, and scales in the same manner based on your amount of Progress Points accrued.

Legacy Progress

As with previous Events, we will continue offering the opportunity for players to utilize their old Event tokens to apply toward this Event. To access this functionality, select the “Legacy Progress” button on the Event UI. This button will only be visible to players that have tokens available to trade in.

Availability

The No Win Scenarios Event will become available for players on PC starting on August 10th at 8am PT and continuing until August 31st at 12pm PT. Console Captains will be receiving the same event soon!

Jeremy “BorticusCryptic” Randall
Staff Systems Designer
Star Trek Online

[Petrarch]

Kael has outdone himself this time, not only is the description missing on 2 of the pieces, it's signed by Borticus who isn't there anymore.

[Remsus]

Kael has outdone himself this time, not only is the description missing on 2 of the pieces, it's signed by Borticus who isn't there anymore.

ill check the german version shortly, let me see if they have done a better job...

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sadly 1:1 the same translated text, even the side setting (shield section) is the same

[Bridger]

Jeremy “BorticusCryptic” Randall
Staff Systems Designer
Star Trek Online

I just hope it is a copy and paste and not that he is back

[darthnovawave]

I just hope it is a copy and paste and not that he is back

Aww but we all love Borticus's approach to game design....

[Noram]

I just hope it is a copy and paste and not that he is back

Speculation is that this is one of his last misbegotten creations before moving.

[darthnovawave]

Speculation is that this is one of his last misbegotten creations before moving.

That would at least explain the set bonuses. The Particle Manipulator trait already adds +50% CritH for exotic abilities, so at best the 2-pc might be useful for an entry level space wizardry build. The 3-pc ability of ejecting a warp core and flinging it at your enemies evokes Shaxs from Lower Decks vibes, not Prodigy. Guess we'll see what the numbers are on this stuff (particularly since we only have a name for the omni and core), but doesn't seem overly exciting so far.

On a side note, I kind of wish they would open these events up to allowing the full grind versions in addition to these 6-7 round event versions. The short versions are nice for quickly racking up daily credit, but as one who never really completed the longer grinds very far, seems like a missed opportunity not to at least offer the option to those willing to invest a little more time too.

[WelshAvenger]

I know it's early days and they haven't released the set yet but in their video, the warp core gets thrown at an enemy and explodes for next to no damage. When our own ship's warp core breaches, it takes the whole ship with it so there shouldn't be anything left of an enemy vessel. Meh, I'm tired and overthinking.

[Bridger]

I know it's early days and they haven't released the set yet but in their video, the warp core gets thrown at an enemy and explodes for next to no damage. When our own ship's warp core breaches, it takes the whole ship with it so there shouldn't be anything left of an enemy vessel. Meh, I'm tired and overthinking.

I think that is just a dummy ship that takes no damage.

[Heyallo]

You know, seeing that they can do unique shield bubbles, there's probably going to be more like em in the future that you know $$$

[Petrarch]

It appears the phaser is a standard omnibeam phaser but with new visuals, so it won't match the regular TNG era ones. It looks more like the Picard S3 weapons which had a more reddish than orange tint. Part of me is thinking we might be seeing a lockbox in future with new arrays but I could be entirely wrong on that front.

[Sorotia]

I mean this is cryptic, so the odds are very high of that...and just about any effort will look good considering their last gamble box was just a remodeled galaxy class and pulse phasers with a new proc