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Patch 201-202 released
Build 20240514

Hey sorry Tourney guys, I needed to get this update out sooner or later. It shouldn't adversely effect any already designed fleets for this Saturday. In general, it should make ship fights more sane.

- Made a number of basic workbench controls clearer.
- Overhauled ship targeting, so that they focus better on what they were already fighting and better weight the awesomenss/weight of other ships when deciding who to fight.
- Ship Threat Avoidance is no longer based on weight, instead only awesomeness ( Why was it like this? )
- Extended some Ship AI Config behavior.
-- Attack Distance: Manual, you can now specify at what range a ship should standoff at.
-- Attack Aggression: Suicidal, which is Reckless + ignoring getting flanked.
- Added safety nets to filename handling for multiple OSs'.
- Fixed shield projector not scaling to the bigger one.
- Lots of other stuff.

### Let me know if anything is breaking!!!

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Mons, a long standing member of the shipbuilding tournament scene; will be hosting our first VA tournament on the 18th of May.

It's pretty simple, you can find the rules on the VA Discord server
>> https://discord.gg/fN8N7h7VeJ

Or on Mon's NMSS website
>> http://www.nomoress.com/vector/index.php?loadDate=20240518

Also a video to help people export fleets
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSNW2QhEDo

It should be a lot of jank fun. Please join in and send a fleet, I'll be sending in a fleet for sure!
I can't wait for the ballance and AI complaints.
- Luke

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