The Stonewall Kobyashi Maru Challenge!

The Kobyashi Maru challenge (#KobyashiMaru) is upon us once more, starting on September 28th in Star Trek Online.  We're challenging all Stonewall Captains to team up throughout this weekend-long event and to participate in this PvE queue mission.  We want to see which teams can complete the MOST rounds in this challenge and the members of the top THREE teams will earn prizes and bragging rights as detailed below.  Rally your friends, ready your phasers and load your torpedo bays to achieve victory!



The purpose of this weekend is to have Stonewallers competing against one another for bragging rights!  To compete, simply participate in the 'Kobyashi Maru' PvE queue throughout the weekend and at the end of the mission, grab a screenshot that clearly shows your party members and the final round that your team reached.  You can do this by pressing the 'Prt Scrn' button on your keyboard and then pasting the image into MSPaint or your favorite graphic editor, or by typing /screenshot_ui_jpg on a blank line in your in-game chat window.  Then post that screenshot in this thread with a list of your teammates to enter the competition!  Complete contest rules are listed below:

• Your team must be composed of at least THREE Stonewall fleet or armada members to qualify (max of two PUG members)
• Screenshots must be submitted as a reply to this thread before Tuesday,  October 3rd, 2017, to be eligible
• You can enter the contest multiple times throughout the weekend (ie. if you do a run with one team, you can also be part of a run with another team that enters, HOWEVER, you're only eligible to win ONE prize pack.  For example, if you're part of a team that wins second place, and ALSO part of a team that comes in third, you will only win the highest prize that you're eligible for, not second and third place prizes combined).

While the purpose of this simulation challenge is to bring Stonewallers together in the spirit of friendly competition throughout the weekend, we are also giving away some prizes to the three teams to reach the HIGHEST level by the end of the event weekend:

First Place Team

• 5 Stonewall Credits for EACH member
• (Stonewall Credits are redeemable at the Stonewall Credit Store for in-game and out of game prizes)
• The winning team will also win bragging rights and we'll spread the word of your success both in-game, on the fleet website and on our social media streams!

Second Place Team

• 4 Stonewall Credits for EACH member
• (Stonewall Credits are redeemable at the Stonewall Credit Store for in-game and out of game prizes)

Third Place Team

• 3 Stonewall Credits for EACH member
• (Stonewall Credits are redeemable at the Stonewall Credit Store for in-game and out of game prizes)

If you're having difficulties uploading your screenshot to this #KobyashiMaru thread, the following is an alternate, but simple method of posting your screenshots.  REMEMBER: you must be logged into this website in order to post a reply to this thread.


STEP ONE
Take a screenshot of your in-game window by pushing the 'Print Screen' button while in STO.





STEP TWO
Alt-tab out of the game and to this browser window. Click on the clipboard icon below to navigate to the Snaggy website.



STEP THREE
Paste your image into the browser window by pressing 'control' and 'v' keys





STEP FOUR
Once your image is uploaded, the Snaggy website will give you a link to your newly uploaded image. You can then login to the SGN website with your account, and copy and paste the link to your screenshot in a reply to this thread! Your link will remain valid for six months.

Planning to blitz this on sunday

OK, let's start this sucker off.  We didn't get far, but we boldly went where no team had gone before!

@Trick
@Lars1091
@JimJMcL1a
@uhura_of_nine
@grmrepr

Also, my attempt at a screenshot failed.  We made it through 5 (see the little 6 in the background? That's when we all got vaporized).  Screenshot failure below.

Also with @Zoxesyr(Invalid img) (who left before the SS)

Completed level: 5

Team members:

1. @Laeren (Laeren_Misha)
2. @zoxesyr (Zoxesyr001A)
3. @gstein91 (gsten766)
4. @Dax_Aussie_Boy
5. @Voleron (akrilon)

Completed level: 5

Team members:

1. @audiored
2. @CaptainJoe (longhorn1023)
3. @Jacien
4. (qeraeth)
5. @Voleron (akrilon)

Good entries so far. Did they change the scenario so that level 5 is no longer a steep exponential curve in difficulty? I dint get to play last night. 

Quote by Mstfrancis

Did they change the scenario so that level 5 is no longer a steep exponential curve in difficulty? I dint get to play last night. 

While there was something mentioned in the patch notes about making the difficulty ramp up more smoothly, I can't say that I see it. It gets rough fast. :) You may notice most of these runs ended after Stage 5.

Okay, that was a fun run! 

Rounds completed: 13

The team:
hetepsechemui
fcsendek
Dantesboi
TedHembach
PUG-member:
Al'Kall(at)godiman

Here is the screenshot:

Wow @Tlara!  Best run so far!!  

(Invalid img)A really great run, thanks guys.

Rounds Completed: 19

the team
(Invalid img)(Invalid img)
DocTheop
Dutch2010
fcSendek
IMTrick
kalen1072

No records broken on this 5-round run, but a lot of ships were.

@Laeren
@trick
@TLara
@suigetsu
dutch2010

:( this time round is so much harder than before....


i suggest we do it in T1 ships!

Even better! let's do it in shuttles!

@zoxesyr
@audiored
chemistryset
matheusarik
Orinas

Definitely a good run. It had to potential to be a great run, but some moron queued us for timed instead of normal. Said moron also didn't get a screenshot quick enough before everyone left, but they were there, and I have at least four witnesses. Who the aforementioned moron was shall remain nameless. OK, it was me.

Rounds: 16

@Trick
@audiored
@Laeren
@hiya234
@skyggen957

We got a good run out of this one!
We got defeated in wave 25.

Team consisted out of:

Aegnor kalen1071
Five Of Five tedhembach
Sendek fcsendek
Shevek @audiored
K'Marrak lordzandor#5872

As further evidence.. so there are no questions later.. =)