Changelog:
*** Vendetta 1.8.512
- Added new badges for actions against Unaligned Pirates and other
specialized combat actions.
- Added weekly Unaligned Pirate report to in-game newsposts.
- Free ship buy-back during Deneb border missions now include addons.
- Added Corporate Sector Run Advertising mission that includes the rules.
- Corporate Sector Run registration now takes place by taking the
Registration mission when it is posted 15 minutes before the race begins.
- Corporate Sector Run now creates a post-race in-game news item listing
the race winners.

*** Vendetta 1.8.511
- Players muted from a "/report" are now notified of the offending chat
text.

*** Vendetta 1.8.510
- Corporate Sector Run race has been automated and takes place on
Saturdays at 4pm Central time.
- User Keys can now be used as a proxy for the Owner Key when keying
conquerable stations.
- Some administrative mutes have been changed to in-game time instead
of wall-clock time.
- Storage rental fees are now capped at 26 weeks.
- Fixed issue with strike force attacking when docking to a group member's
capship when both are in a Deneb Border Skirmish mission but the
capship's owner is not in the sector.
- Fixed issue with losing radar target when targeting a player-owned
capship and they launch from it.
- Changed virtual keyboard tab icon to "Tab".

*** Vendetta 1.8.509
- Added experimental chat abuse reporting tool.
Type /report "character name" to open the UI to select the offending
text and category to submit it for administrative review.

For people who don't seem to remember how badges work:

They get handed out based on crossing a particular threshold.

So, if there's a badge at killing 5, 25 and 50 of something, and you've only killed 15, then of course you're only going to get the Level I badge.

Thanks for the updates. I added the Corporate Sector Run event to my personal calendar. See you all next Saturday! I do plan of getting a subscription to the game before June 1st so I can host a Deneb run.

---- Akan II (JB) aka Jestatis Bess

Thanks for Clarification O/.
I think the badge should say how many Unrat dent kills left to get next badge.

Like if you have 10kills , it should say 15 Unrat dent kills left to get 25 kills badge.

Please make that a post in the Suggestion forum, Pando

He can't, he's been banned from Suggestions, due to bad behaviour. Not that that makes it okay to post Suggestions anywhere else.

But, yes, we're aware of the need to show how many kills left to get to X.

There were a variety of problems with this last release, relating to the Badges, and they weren't actually implemented the way I wanted. But, we'll leave them as-is and continue to improve things.

Thanks for reply incarnate o/

Maybe its just me, but "Free ship buy-back during Deneb border missions now include addons." There haven't been free ship buy-backs since I joined in 2010. The only that is free is repairing and reloading in the capships there.

The buy back is free. I've tested it. The game does say that credits were spent, but your credit balance stays the same.

Ah okay, cool.

The buy back is free. I've tested it. The game does say that credits were spent, but your credit balance stays the same.

Don't know if this should go in Bugs or Suggestions so I'll put it here: can we please have the buyback notification reflect that no credits were spent? If no credits were deducted from your account, that should be properly communicated to the pilot. It's been confusing (and somewhat frustrating) to players for years.

I agree. That's why we fixed it yesterday.

It'll be in the next client patch, whenever that is.

Thank you! For all your hard work and dedication both past and present! Especially now, since running a tertiary business (like a computer gaming company) can't be easy. Viva lá VO!