Vendetta Test 3.3.0 was released on Saturday evening, marking the first production use of our new server-side code. Server load has been decreased dramatically (it's now roughly 1/10th of the 3.2.x server load). The new Lua 5 sector daemon framework allows us a great deal more power in how we choose to design and alter the game from this point forward, and we're excited about the possibilities. Gameplay changes from 3.2.x are minimal, bots are slightly smarter, etc. These initial releases in the 3.3.x tree are all about testing the stability of the new back-end code, before moving forward with gameplay development.

Vendetta Test 3.3.1 fixes a number of the bugs that cropped up in 3.3.0. This includes the "black screen of docking" and, as far as we are aware, all of the money exploits. If you find any money exploits, please report them. We want to restore the stability and integrity of the economy before we try and improve things. The endquote private-message bug is also fixed, but doing so introduced a new bug, which was then fixed in 3.3.2 (released a few minutes later).

As always, please report any bugs that you find. Via the automated bug reporter program, the web submission form, or the messageboard. The faster we get the 3.3.x codebase stabilized, the sooner we can move forward with the new gameplay features we all want to see.

Watch the In Progress page for news on future versions of Vendetta.