- 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.

Cool. I thought it was a bit crazy in BS how as soon as I warped in there would immediately be five NPCs all firing rockets at me. It'll be interesting to see what effect moving it to B-13 will have.

Couple of quick notes about the BS changes. I didn't get attacked much, not even sure I got hit by a single non-cappy ship. Additionally, towards the end of the battle the bots started drifting, and by drifting I mean near full-boost speeds. This made it really difficult to finish the BS, leaving the sector for 5 minutes seemed to bring the ships back, but they drifted immediatly on sector load.

SF's and SG's were doing this in Odia M14 tonight to. Simply getting stuck in whatever state they were in, some would end up just floating, others seemed to turbo out indefinitely.

- Fixed Levi negative-shield-recharge-rate bug.

crap!

*** Vendetta 1.8.19.1
- Fixed a problem with the background updates.

Is that what was causing screwy bot behavior?

- /displayshippos a second time makes the Hippos go away now.

damn

displayhippos not worky in space. Since you cannot get a text entry field when doing displayhippos you cannot disable the hippos without alt+returning out and killing the process from outside.

Didn't feel like trying it in a station ;)

You can if you open and close the console.

Which kinda defeats the purpose of having a command to close it easily, doesn't it?

The bot behaviour may be better within a couple of minutes here. Michael is restarting with some fixes.

I agree, the displayshippos thing should just have a close button, or a 2 second timer or something. I was not involved in that.

You cannot blame andy for having a bit of fun, a lot of players were whining for DisplayShipPos to come back )

Thank you for moving the BS mission, no more WH ganking YAY!

Have a bit of an issue with a BS last night. For some reason the capital ships drifted off 78K from any entrance to the fight. At a top speed of 220ms it took almost 6 min to get to the engagement area.

Perhaps they should be a bit more location aware, of have them automatically prioritize new capital ships, so that they tend to drift back towards the entrance area.

Any more complaints about the hippos and I will remove them completely.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

my comment on removing the hippos:

Noooooooooooo!!!!!

The cries of a thousand new threads shall be heard across all forums!!

That is all =)

But seriously? I don't think removing the hippos would be a good idea. I'll start a hunger strike =9

I'll join ya.

Maybe we could start a 'Run to Save the Hippos'.

Lord knows some of us could use the dieting and exercise. ;)

hehehe