VO 1.8.86 includes:

- Increased the defenses of Queens and Hive Queens.
- Added fog to the inner ice/asteroid ring in the Deneb system.
- Increased the variety of bots used in the Dynamic Hive.
- The three Dynamic Hive's ships are now colored differently.
- Improved NPC docking and undocking behavior to prevent convoy pileups.
- Fixed bug involving long-gone bots in the bar, and duplicate bar-enter/leave messages.
- Hive bots now use production queues, like border skirmish. (no more insta-respawn)