ChangeLog/1.8

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

Vendetta version 1.8.33

Added new "Aeolus Light Behemoth" variant, 80 cargo, 175 top speed, single Large port.
Fixed minor problems with Training III and IV missions
Reworked Training VI mission to no longer stall under certain cases. Please report any problems with this tutorial.

Vendetta version 1.8.32

Moved mission-editor-based bot control to a newer, more powerful mechanism (Kourier).
Previous "Plasma Eliminator" is now renamed the "MkII".
New baseline Plasma Eliminator available at level 1 Heavy

Vendetta version 1.8.31

Support for 36 joystick buttons on a single joystick for Mac and Linux versions.
Better handle case in Audio Options menu when there is no audio device available.
Fixed rare Windows DirectX crash bug.
Display correct hour-length of trial for trial accounts.
Fixed all notification text references of money to credits.
lua console_print won't generate an error when trying to print non-strings.
Fixed credits bug when trying to give credits to someone with over 4294967295 credits
Fixed misc server-side bugs.

Vendetta version 1.8.30

New weapon: Plasma Eliminator, requires L2 heavy
New weapon: Plasma Annihilator, L7 heavy, Hive Queen II
Modified a few item prices.
Fixed other server-side bugs.

Vendetta version 1.8.29

Players can now be mentored to license level 2.
Added sector notes. Read Navmap Help for more information.
Modified mentor error message to include license level info.
Fixed miscellaneous rare lua bugs.

Vendetta version 1.8.28

Fix for dynamic-object-update related crash.
Fixed other bug.

Vendetta version 1.8.27

New Ship: the Behemoth Heavy Miner, for sale in Mining stations
New Weapon: the Ineubis Raven Ion Blaster, available at Ineubis stations, and at increased price at Barracks stations near Deneb.

Vendetta version 1.8.26

Dynamic object-update system.
Lua bug fixes (including the cause of the stalled moths).
Kourier bug fixes/resiliency updates.
Various mission tweaks.

Vendetta version 1.8.25.1

Fixed radar bug.
Removed spurious voice-chat related message.

Vendetta version 1.8.25

11 New missions have been added.
Updated Voice Chat, fixes device enumeration for some linux/amd64 installs.
Removed Voice Chat 'Quality' setting due to changes in Voice Chat SDK.
Player-defined Ignore list is loaded and saved at different times so plugins can update the lists.
Version is now displayed in Credits window.
Back-end enhancements.

Vendetta version 1.8.24

Lowered voice chat quality slightly to lower bandwidth usage. Audible quality loss should be minimal.
Fixed 'Mission Available' count to 0 when there are no missions available
Fixed lua error when enabling voice chat after leaving a group
Added guild member count to list of guild members online
Very slight interface tweaks and HUD optimizations

Vendetta version 1.8.23

Updated VoiceChat Libraries.
Rolled out new VoiceChat production server.
Fixed a bug in sixth tutorial mission.

Vendetta version 1.8.22.1

No information available

Vendetta version 1.8.22

Only tutorial missions are visible to new characters (until they reach combat license level 1).
VoiceChat: Enable Device Selection checkbox to allow certain Gentoo/Linux/AMD64 users to workaround a crash.
Push-to-talk and VAD now properly saved.
Better handling of some VoiceChat failure modes.

Vendetta version 1.8.21

Voice Chat options menu now allows you to select your playback and capture devices.
Linux version now always tries ALSA first, regardless of audio settings
Players are properly kicked out of restricted text chat channels
lua interface updates:
- bitlib.band, bor, bxor, bnot, lshift, rshift, arshift
- Third argument to SendChat can be channel id when 2nd arg is "CHANNEL"

Vendetta version 1.8.20

Vendetta Online now features Voice Chat! See news post for details.
Fixed port names on Revenant and 2-port EC-101/107 series ships
Added optional Set Home confirmation dialog
Added optional Log Off confirmation dialog
Own health percent in HUD no longer shows 0% if health is less than 0.5%.

Vendetta version 1.8.19.1

Fixed a problem with the background updates.

Vendetta version 1.8.19

AI targeting optimization (will hopefully help with hits not always registering in busy sectors).
Moved Border Skirmish to Deneb B-13 (so serco don't have a chokepoint).
Tweaked Border Skirmish values to make bots not gang up on you quite as much.
Fixed Levi negative-shield-recharge-rate bug.
Hornet and Orion Hornet changed from 10 -> 15 cargo.
Hornet MkII changed from 18 -> 25 cargo.
Hornet MkIII changed from 12 -> 18 cargo.
/displayshippos a second time makes the Hippos go away now.
Buddies are only tab-completed if they are online.
Updates to "All About the Galaxy" tutorial mission.
More 'background' updates.

Vendetta version 1.8.18.2

Background updates.

Vendetta version 1.8.18.1

No changelog posted for this patch; it was released because of a bug that prevented people from logging on after the restart.

Vendetta version 1.8.18

Dropped official support for MacOS X 10.2
Border Skirmish NPC rocket launchers nerfed in damage and firing rate.
Border Skirmish Constellation and HAC should now have large turret models.
Various mission bugfixes.
New missions added.

Vendetta version 1.8.17

BioCom Vulture XT turbo drain changed from 60 to 57.
Teradon shield-recharge-rate now lower (same as trident).
Teradon now uses slightly different turret weapons.
Border Skirmish Warthogs now have Iceflares instead of Sunflares.
Trident swarm missle refire delay changed from 30 to 45 seconds.
HUD updates are a little more efficient when getting hit.
Reworked windows sound driver a little for wavsound mode.
Border Skirmish no longer informs you of NPCs killing NPCs.
Escort rewards lowered somewhat so they won't hit the cap so often.
Behind-the-scenes development continues.
Border Skirmish Valkyries now also have Iceflares
Border Skirmish Proms now have AGTs

Vendetta version 1.8.16

Slight buffer copy optimization to sound system on Mac and Windows
Added [] around ship price to make it more noticable
Added chat text color picker in Options->Interface->Chat Color Settings
Added mission count to buttom of Available Missions list taken and aborted or otherwise ended without leaving the station.

Vendetta version 1.8.15

Mac Updater has been optimized
Added a 'Super High' mode for rendering backgrounds
Increased resolution of starfield texture
Increased maximum number of characters that can be typed into the console
Changed text in buddy note entry menu
Added a special plugin layer to the HUD for plugins
Added stats at the bottom of PVP tab
Tweaked group-targeting code to make bots respond more readily to being shot (even if they are targeting someone else)

Vendetta version 1.8.14

Client Enhancements

New PVP tab located inside Comm tab.
New Ignore tab located inside Sensor tab.
New floating point sound buffer format for Windows XP and Vista. It is used by default for XP and uses the old 16bit sound buffer if it is not available.
Fixed client crash when trying to play a sound file that failed to load. Read Windows forum for more information.

Lua Enhancements

chatinfo variable is now global.
Fixed lua error when calling factionfriendlynessrange(value).
Added GetListOfSeenNames() function to client sandbox.
Server connection error dialog is less ugly now.

Vendetta version 1.8.13

Linux joystick calibration interface
Made news article background a little darker to make the text easier to read.
/msg properly handles player names with %% in them
Fixed text coloring bug that happened when color code tag scrolled out of the window.
The %sector% tag properly displays sector name instead of internal sector id when used in chat messages
Added Ignore.GetIgnoreList() lua function that returns a table of lowercase character names that are ignored.

Vendetta version 1.8.12

When the first bot in line to dock takes an inordinate amount of time, it will now cheat to prevent pile-ups.
Health percentages of nearby players in userlist when health is less than 100%
Missed a comma_value() on station Sell tab.
Interface autorefreshes on changes to sorting and number formats.
Added sorting to the commodity/ship addons. Sorts on name/price/group. The setting is in Interface Options.
Ship item descriptions are indented
Mission descriptions are indented in Mission Board
Added cu/mass to the Load tab, also mass on the ship cargo(x/y) label.

Vendetta version 1.8.11

Slight optimization to client when there are a lot of bots in the sector. (ie. BS and central hive sectors)
All supporting sectors for Hive Bastions are now constrained to the same system as the Queen
Hive Collectors shuttle back and forth between their Settlement and their Queen
When the last Bastion in a system is destroyed, all other Hive Skirmish missions in that system end immediately (as successful).
Mac version defaults to using texture compression for video cards with 128 megs of memory to try to fix texture thrashing problem.

Also, thanks to players who have contributed the following:

Group management added to Buddy tab and tab is renamed to Buddy/Group. (Moda Messolus, Omega 0)
Added ability to optionally display numbers with either commas or spaces as thousands separators in the client interface. Added option to specify either none, comma, space. (Moda Messolus)
Updated some in-station hotkeys. ([LUA] guild)
Darkened capship's 'Ready Room' chat background colors. (Miharu, Omega 0)
Darkened station's 'Bar' chat background colors. (Miharu, Omega 0)
Player cargo lists are now sorted by name. (Moda Messolus)
There are now 9 pages of mission notes instead of 1. (Nautargos, Moda Messolus)
Added /clear command to clear the console. (Moda Messolus)
Added ship names to the preset buttons on the buyback dialog; earlier update had only affected the buttons in the station interface. (drazed, Miharu, raybondo)

Vendetta version 1.8.10

Manufacturing & Mining missions updated to use new objective UI in the mission log
Fix crash under OpenGL
Fixed tutorial mission wording
9 new missions added
Server deployment stuff rewritten; we should have shorter downtimes between updates from now on

Vendetta version 1.8.9

Fixed a couple interface bugs
Added support for a mission objective list in the log; we will be updating missions to use this feature

Vendetta version 1.8.8

Pressing 'm' from the HUD always goes to the mission log, then pressing it again goes to the mission list if you don't have a mission, and then pressing 'm' a third time puts you back in the HUD.
Fixed horizontal scroll in mission log.
Missions are sorted alphabetically by name and then description. (thanks Moda)
Option for chat entry field to show colored text depending on what chat destination it's going to. (thanks Slime)
Preset purchase buttons show name of the ship that is setup for that preset. (thanks Drazed)
Player's home station is displayed in character info area in station menu. (slime)
System chat is available to non-plugin users now. (slime)

Vendetta version 1.8.7

Overhauled bot targeting system, currently utilized in Border Skirmish, Hive Skirmish and Escort missions. Among other things, this means that players will be targeted more frequently and fighters won't focus on capships.
BS bots warp in from opposite ends now, preventing some capship tangles.
BS now includes Ragnarok bombers.

Vendetta version 1.8.6.1

Fixed crash on exit or ReloadInterface

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!