*** Vendetta 1.8.189
- Increased max resolution of the game icon for Windows.
You may need to force the desktop to refresh for it to take effect.
- Fixed an issue relating to certain types of NPCs becoming lost or
stuck under certain circumstances.
- Added further debugging to help detect and detail any other issues
relating to persistent and convoy NPCs on the server.
- Improved game-launcher resiliency and error handling on Xperia PLAY.
- Fixed Voice Chat.

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I know these aren't amazing setting-the-world-on-fire gameplay changes, but the convoy/bot debugging was non-trivial, along with wrapping some other projects.

Please let us know if you see any more "stuck" convoy capships and the like. Post to Bugs or some such. Thanks!

npc fixes are good :)

now that you have debugging in place i can hassle you about:

war convoy fighters not attacking anyone
war convoy capships not remaining in position on sector sleep
deneb teradons not firing at npc connies and going into a spaced duel

Important? Yes.
About time? Yes.
Yawn? Definitely yes.

Thanks Inc, good progress.

To anyone having trouble starting the game on Windows 7: Right-click on the icon and use "Run as Administrator". It will update and should work from then on. You can also read details in the related bugs thread.

I'm here to announce I'm coming back to the game. The new, higher resolution icon is THE killer feature VO has been waiting for!

I can't believe it took so long, but I'm proud of you guys! I'm going to run VO in a windows emulator from now on so I can enjoy that gorgeous high res icon in all it's glory!

HOLY CRAP NEW ICON DAMNIT! OMGFG!!!!!!!

Seriously guys, VO has finally made it. I know I had my doubts, I was a huge critic, but I'm here to admit, you've proven me wrong. The new icon is a gamechanger in the MMO business, it deserves top billing in the update list, I'm glad it's there!

I am a little concerned that your new icon prevents VO from launching in Windows 7, but I'm sure you'll fix it in VO 2.0!

That's more like it, Tumble.

Yeah, until today my heart really hasn't been in it...

Now that your heart is in it, try adding a little bit of wit as well, and you might be on to something.

I heard there's some new features coming Soon(TM) that leverages Amazon's EC2 service to enable on-demand wit allocation based on forum trolling load.

Can't wait for that update!

Wait, Windows lusers get an icon included with the game? While Linux users still have to download their own icon separately?? WTF?!?

Seriously, I don't think any of us expect you to actually configure the icon for us, but you could at least include a .png inside ~/.vendetta/ so we don't have to download it from the forum. I had actually assumed you were doing that already only to realize a couple days ago that I had put that image there myself years ago.

Pizza is right. I have requested that. Others also. C'mon, it is not that hard to include a small file with downloadable package for Linux!

-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 17306 Dez 11 2010 vendettaicon.png

17KB is too small, even for ancient dialup/POST 28Kbps modems!

The Ubuntu package of the Linux build (available in the Ubuntu Software Center) does actually include an icon for the game and configures it automatically.

But yes, we can look at including a png in the archive.

and also a .desktop shortcut in ~/.local/share/applications/ ?? ;-)

works for all modern WMs, as gnome and KDE.