I recently have been doing a whole lot of behind the scenes work to Rubyia, most of which will never even affect anyone but me. It was a lot more work than I expected and I'm still far from finished. The most major thing I did was to delete a whole lot of old, unused locations that were really cluttering up my location manager. Some Island Managers may be able to relate to this a little but I'd definitely have to say that it was a lot worse than a lot of IMs would imagine it to be.

With how old Rubyia is and with its size and number of locations and quests, it really is a VERY complex mess of locations and dialogs. I have kept everything mostly grouped by using folders so far and it has worked out. But what I've been discovering lately is that I have way to many folders out of categorization and folders that were obselete and had been removed from the island but I hadn't yet deleted. So I had to go through my mess of over 40 folders 1 by one and delete all the locations that were obselete. Some were easier than others because the whole folder was obselete but some were a mix of locations so I had to go through and pick out the ones to delete. All told I deleted well over 100(if not more) locations.

Included in these deleted locations was all Guild of Blacksmith locations and old Legacy locations.

On a more noticeable side of Rubyia, I went through and fixed a lot of dialogs and spelling errors. I'm nowhere close to being finished with this, but I have updated quite a few NPCs with much better dialogs and even fixed a few quests to make them more interesting. I have a long way to go to fix every dialog though and I'm making it my current project as its something that really needs fixing.

As well, I have a few other side projects that I'm working on including a new Guild Hall in Gouththas and hopefully many other locations(more on that once I figure out what I'm doing with it) as well as a new Black Rose Agent in Thinill who can offer services to members of OBR and hopefully will offer a quest as well as features for members of any guild in the future.