DO YOU BELIEVE IN A NO WIN SCENARIO?

baddmoonrizin

Engage in a No Win Scenario, and get a new space set based on the Protostar from Star Trek: Prodigy!

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11550673

inferiority

baddmoonrizin wrote: »

Engage in a No Win Scenario, and get a new space set based on the Protostar from Star Trek: Prodigy!

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11550673

This needs to be in the "PC" section, not "Console". Thanks.

tom61sto

What are the specs of the core and omni? Do they do anything special on their own? What's the equip limitations of the omni?

foxman00

Very interesting pieces and sets

darkgob

If you equip all three, you can the ability to offensively eject your warp core in combat.

Look, I know some things break immersion by necessity of game mechanics, but this is really ridiculous. The only way I could even come close to accepting this is if: it's only usable once per instance, you lose any and all buffs granted by the warp core for the duration of the instance, and your power levels are permanently decreased to 10 for the duration of the instance. It's still sketchy, but maybe you RP it as getting a replacement in between leaving the instance and returning to sector space. Anything else is nonsensical though. Might as well introduce a ground ability where the player character can remove their own brain (temporarily!), it makes just as much sense.

thunderfoot

Niice. Set looks intriguing.

When does the USS Protostar show up ingame?

I only watched one or two episodes of ST:Prodigy. Figured out I'm not part of the targeted audience for this show. I'm happy for the people who do like it. I'll not bad mouth it because Star Trek is a large enough tent now there's plenty of room for everybody.

The people who enjoy ST:Prodigy ought to get a shot at owning the Protostar in STO. And while I'm wishing for things made of Unobtanium, I want a pony as well.

rattler2

thunderfoot#5163 wrote: »

The people who enjoy ST:Prodigy ought to get a shot at owning the Protostar in STO. And while I'm wishing for things made of Unobtanium, I want a pony as well.

The issue with the Protostar itself is that because Prodigy was owned BOTH by CBS and Nickelodeon... things were kinda muddy because Cryptic would have to get permission from Nickelodeon as well.

However with everything that has happened... and the introduction of this set... its probably only a matter of time before we see a Protostar class.

psiameese

The two Protostar-themed items do look fun. However, I do find it odd to have two Protostar-themed items but not as part of the Protostar-class itself. I guess thank our lucky stars these items aren't stuck with the ship itself inside a lockbox? :vulcan-salute:

fleetcaptain5

I do believe in no win scenario's.

Does Cryptic believe in them? If yes, then why do we automatically win after seven rounds? Why do you keep calling it a no win scenario if that's not what it is?

Why not give players an option to queue for the regular mission? It's kind of strange to encourage players to play a certain piece of content and then not let them, when they are willing to.

Like you're asking someone to prepare for running a marathon and then tell them to stop running after a hundred metres or 328 banana lengths.

phoenixc

darkgob wrote: »

If you equip all three, you can the ability to offensively eject your warp core in combat.

Look, I know some things break immersion by necessity of game mechanics, but this is really ridiculous. The only way I could even come close to accepting this is if: it's only usable once per instance, you lose any and all buffs granted by the warp core for the duration of the instance, and your power levels are permanently decreased to 10 for the duration of the instance. It's still sketchy, but maybe you RP it as getting a replacement in between leaving the instance and returning to sector space. Anything else is nonsensical though. Might as well introduce a ground ability where the player character can remove their own brain (temporarily!), it makes just as much sense.

I suppose it could be possible that they eject the spare core, like Voyager did once, and the cooldown could be the time it takes to print a new one with the Protostar free-space replicator technology (for instance, they don't bother carrying spare shuttles, if they lose one of the active ones they just print up a new one core, fuel, and all and take off in it without any other preparation) and energize it ready for the next launch.

It is still rather silly and makes no sense scientifically since it is just a matter/antimatter reactor and would just be an extremely inefficient photon mine or the like, but that is one of the hallmarks of NuTrek in general.

fleetcaptain5

thunderfoot#5163 wrote: »

Niice. Set looks intriguing.

When does the USS Protostar show up ingame?

I only watched one or two episodes of ST:Prodigy. Figured out I'm not part of the targeted audience for this show. I'm happy for the people who do like it. I'll not bad mouth it because Star Trek is a large enough tent now there's plenty of room for everybody.

The people who enjoy ST:Prodigy ought to get a shot at owning the Protostar in STO. And while I'm wishing for things made of Unobtanium, I want a pony as well.

You can get your pony after they finally add a real life shuttle to the C-store!

fleetcaptain5

It would be nice to get playable V'au N'Akat too. Or at least their skin type, so that we can use the alien generator to recreate one.


Maybe they can then also re-add the 'Abandon ship' ability, since we're going to be able to drop warp cores continuously now.

With voice overs from John Noble please:

Abandon your posts! Flee, flee for your liiveess!!

roninwolf1981

If only there was a way to get the sompek emote during this event.

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

I do believe in no win scenario's.

Does Cryptic believe in them? If yes, then why do we automatically win after seven rounds? Why do you keep calling it a no win scenario if that's not what it is?

Why not give players an option to queue for the regular mission? It's kind of strange to encourage players to play a certain piece of content and then not let them, when they are willing to.

Like you're asking someone to prepare for running a marathon and then tell them to stop running after a hundred metres or 328 banana lengths.

Or at least give us the ability to tally our rounds based on how many times we do the Sompek arena (3 event TFO runs and we get the Sompek emote). If only the devs could hear us on this one...

avoozuul

I wish they would add the endless until everyone dies version back as optional, I find the short version absolutely boring.

inferiority

thunderfoot#5163 wrote: »

When does the USS Protostar show up ingame?

It'd be a nice addition, but until it arrives, you can get a pretty close approximation of the Protostar by using one of the various Star Cruisers.

thunderfoot

inferiority wrote: »

thunderfoot#5163 wrote: »

When does the USS Protostar show up ingame?

It'd be a nice addition, but until it arrives, you can get a pretty close approximation of the Protostar by using one of the various Star Cruisers.

I'm don't want the ship. Which looks really good, BTW. But I am sure plenty of players do. I think if they're a fan of ST:Prodigy, they should get access to it as quickly as we got access to the ST:Lower Decks stuff.