Welcome to Vendetta Online 1.8.86

Changelog:

*** Vendetta 1.8.86
- Increased the defenses of Queens and Hive Queens.
- Added fog to ice/asteroid sectors of 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 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)

Soo.. dunno about the hive queen defenses thing. Everything else is ok though, I think.

hot update.

Very cool update.

Okay, so now we have a shield queen with an additional 15,000 shield hit points.

Queen
Armor: 300,000 [X]
Shield: 45,000 [X]
Mass: 15,000kg [X] (wait, what?) or is it 40,000kg, I'm getting conflicting data.
etc...
Turns on a dime [X]

Compared to...

Overseer
Armor: 60,000 [X]
Shield: None [X]
Mass: 40,000kg [X]
etc...
Doesn't turn on a dime [X]

Excellent.

The fog really screws up any hope of mining in Deneb or of prospecting for new roids. Otherwise I like it a lot.

A very nice update ... Thank you.

So I just found a Storm in Deneb K-11. I was wondering if you guys remembered to turn them off as I think they caused problems before? Anyways since I'm in one now, do you turn the Fog effect off during an Ion Storm, as the Ion Storm pretty much has the same effect, or do you leave both effects turned on? Can't really tell =]

I just noticed that the Ice Roids glow somewhat during an Ion Storm though. Nice :)

Er, I turned off static fog. Not ion storms.

Just out of curiousity, Did you play with the Hive Queen escort bots attack profiles any... they seem to be trying to attack from the side a lot more instead of bunching up. The behaviour is an improvment in sneakiness.