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
This phaser is a standard omni-directional phaser, with new visuals based on the Protostar in Star Trek Prodigy.
Protostar Dual Warp Core/Dual Singularity Core
This special duel warp/singularity core gives bonuses to power levels while at high throttle and bonus to turn rate while at low throttle.
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