{"id":455,"date":"2008-02-11T01:50:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T07:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=455"},"modified":"2011-12-04T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:00:54","slug":"busy-as-a-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Busy as a Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies in advance for my absence from the blog! I&#8217;m very grateful for the increase in posts recently, and for all of your attention and thoughtful comments on the modules. I do want to reply to more of those comments soon, but I&#8217;ll probably need a few more days before I can get time to do that properly. Work will be busy for me for the rest of the month, and I&#8217;ve been spending all my spare time trying to finish up the Sanctum 1 upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>As for the upgrade: that&#8217;s now officially gotten &#8220;out of control&#8221; (my wife&#8217;s words) and turned into a pretty substantial makeover. That&#8217;s happened for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I&#8217;ve got a year&#8217;s worth of ideas, player suggestions, and improved knowledge about modding to work with. I keep wanting to include all of those ideas, and since I&#8217;d like this to be the final update to Sanctum 1, this is the time to make them. So here&#8217;s another brief (and non-exhaustive) report on my progress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve updated Robin and Orion to use their improved blueprints from Sanctum 2, including Robin&#8217;s single class of Rogue. This should make them a little more effective in combat, and relieve most of the pressure on players to take (possibly non-primary) thief skills.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve moderated the combat balance a little, and also added and tested an option to make the combat even easier still for players who prefer that.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve redesigned the &#8220;picnic swim&#8221; cutscene to be more elaborate, and to make use of some features that I also used in Sanctum 2.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m making great use of the features of a new tileset that I added for Len&#8217;s Lab, the Secure Area, and the Master Control Room, each of which (along with the lower level of the ruins) has now been rebuilt from scratch. And I added a new twist to make the &#8220;repair operation&#8221; a bit more interesting and elaborate.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also decided to rather significantly expand on the functions of the &#8220;Holo-Theater.&#8221; I&#8217;ll won&#8217;t say any more now, except that this is what I&#8217;m currently working on, and it involves several new areas and encounters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work will be busy for me for the rest of the month, and I&#8217;ve been spending all my spare time trying to finish up the Sanctum 1 upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-thesight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}