ChangeLog/1.8

Note: Items in italics denote additions that were not mentioned in the official changelog.

Vendetta version 1.8.6

• Mission logs now indicate mission outcome (completed, failed, aborted) for most missions (the rest to be done soon).
• Navroute to Hive Skirmish sector set again when you undock after death (obsoleting Eonis' new plugin).
• Fixed a bot-cleanup race condition that may be responsible for the appearance of hive bots in wormhole sectors.
• Hive expansion tuning (eg. slower bastion spawning when there are already several).
• Hive Skirmish message polishing (no more "will retreat if we lose 0 more").
• New mission log objective-list mechanism (not yet utilized).

Vendetta version 1.8.5

• Skirmish HUD element now reflects the alternative objectives of the stronghold and bastion HS missions
• Sector alignment/monitored status can now be changed on the fly. Consequently, Deneb B12 is now unaligned during BS (no more friends-are-red issue)
• When a ship you kill explodes, it still rewards you for kills that result from the explosion, but will not penalize you, in the case of a friendly NPC dying in the blast.
• Stronghold Queens no longer respawn instantly (there's currently a single-wide production queue requiring 2 hours per queen)
• Fixed a bug that gave the Levi's shields a huge bump when the last Bastion was destroyed.
• Queens and other large ships can now die in skirmishes when the sector is not-running (very low probability) - this will keep the Hive from growing quite so large.

Vendetta version 1.8.4.1

• Use GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object instead of GL_APPLE_vertex_buffer_object on MacOS 10.5 - significant speedup on some machines.
• Disabled mpengine entirely (for now) - trying to track down further performance issues.

Vendetta version 1.8.4

• Skirmish HUD control's colors are now correctly displayed.
• Skirmish HUD updates on each kill again.
• Station names are now being displayed in inventory tree list.
• Border Skirmish stats displayed in neat table in mission log (more uses of this to come).
• Multithreaded OpenGL is disabled by default with new VO installs on Mac OS when there is only one cpu.
• Plugins: Text lengths are now properly calculated when \127o is used at the end of the text. This was causing some text to word-wrap prematurely.
• Cargo dropped in sectors already full of cargo will try to "combine" with a nearby cargo box of the same type; this dramatically reduces the number of cargo boxes in sectors where large battles take place and increases frame rate

Vendetta version 1.8.3.1

• Fix for the crash that TargetLS and the IUP child-detachment change induced
• Linux clients will now hog the cpu much less when not in focus

Vendetta version 1.8.3

• WARNING: TargetLS users (and maybe others) will need to disable those plugins until they can be updated!
• Casualties HUD element in Hive Skirmish missions
• Group-leaving on mission end/abort fixed
• Better emulation of skirmishes in non-running sectors
• Tuning of Hive and NPC numbers in Skirmishes for more appropriate difficulty levels
• Initial re-tuning of shield settings following the removal of the turret-multiplier-effect
• More stats being kept for Border Skirmish
• IUP change to better handle detaching z/h/vboxes (plugin authors see Community projects forum)

Vendetta version 1.8.2

• Swarm trail effects get removed when changing sectors or logging out
• Misc lua interface fixes (see community projects forum tomorrow)
• Mission HUD text properly left-justified again
• Mission menu backgrounds back to normal
• Fixed bug in handling of friendly-kills by npcs in Border and Hive Skirmish
• No more N times damage to shields where N is the number of turrets within a blast area (no more soloing the levi)
• Border Skirmish and Battle max-casualties changed from 1k each to 2k and 3k respectively (Battles happen at midnight GMT Sundays)
• Queens in Hive Strongholds now contribute to the Levi's shield recharge rate (along with Bastion queens)
• Stronghold queens don't try to defend the Levi now (until defend action works better)
• Serco/Itani HAC instead of frigate1/2 in BS messages

Vendetta version 1.8.1

• Border Skirmish is back, now with HUD indicator

Vendetta version 1.8

• Two new hives, centered in Metana and Rhamus
• Jump point indicator icon moved out about 200m so that it doesn't disappear behind you the instant you can activate
• Fixed bug where jump point indicator would be mixed up at the moment storms started/ended
• Linux joystick calibration utility disabled; it didn't work at all but we will fix it!