Iron Captain Challenge

dawnspooner

Greetings fellow Captains, I've come to give you a fun little challenge, welcome to the Iron Captain Challenge, and here are the rules:

You are to make a completely new character in any Faction and Career, then play the main story line, including the tutorial, all the way to Ragnarok, however you must play on elite difficulty, you are allowed to team up with other players on your adventure, however they must also be preforming the Iron Captain Challenge.

The catch to this challenge is, if your full away team and Captain, or your Starship dies, you MUST Delete the character and start over, (however deaths in PvP/PvE Queues, Warzones, or open Adventure maps "Dyson Sphere Space and Kobail Front" will not count and not need you to delete the character)

Next to make it fair to everyone, your character can not receive any equipment or boost from other people or the Zen Store, this includes any Zen ships, Crafted items, (unless crafted by the iron captain themselves) or free T5 and T6 ships such as the Vorgon Escort or the Risian Cruiser, this means your final ship will be the one you get at Rear Admiral,

And finally your character can be any species, including Zen species such as: the Caitian's, federation Klingon, or Joined Trill, as like all the other races they have there strengths and weaknesses,

I hope you all have fun doing this challenge,

(if this challenge already exists apologies)

scrooge69

sounds boring without a reward

nekofury86

Psh, been there, done that. So wait, I'm allowed to use Zen races but not Zen ships? I spent my hard earned money on those! besides, we get a similar challenge, yet a bit easier, every 1.5 - 2 years, typically titled "Recruit Event" and those rewards are fantastic... this gives nothing.

ashstorm1

Your idea is interesting, OP, and i am sure some people would give it a try, on the condition that it features one BIG JUICY CARROT at the end, if you catch what i mean. I stand with the previous posters here : if there is zero reward at the end, i doubt many people are going to take on that challenge for the mere sake of (ephemereal) glory, unless of course they have a ton of time to waste...

In my opinion, many players have a busy RL, and just won't take the risk of wasting their spare time running this challenge when they could invest it in a more lucrative in-game activity. Add to this that the difficulty balancing on Elite mode is rather poorly cobbled together in my opinion : depending on the mobs you have to face, some are surprisingly easy to solo, while some others are sure to give you a real hard time with a really high probability of dying at least once (without mentioning that their number and rank scales up with the number of team mates you have...).

Once again, i am surely not speaking in the name of the whole community here, and there might yet be people who will take on the challenge for the sake of glory, but i do believe that you should include a substantial reward for the potential winner(s) at the end, would it be only to acknowledge their efforts.

arionisa

That challenge was surprisingly easy.

What kind of reward do I get ?

What do you mean I don't get no reward ?

It's okay, I didn't actually do the challenge anyway, not that anyone could have proven whether I did or not.

My point is that there is no point in offering some kind of reward (or big fat juicy carrot) because there is no way to either prove or disprove a claim of having completed the challenge. This is the type of challenge that has no reward other than self satisfaction of having actually managed to do an extremely difficult task.