I think it's time to merge the starting zone maps (ie: old/new grid) into one zone

[Catwho]

I still think traversing between the split zones in each starting city is a jarring and bad experience. That might have been necessary for the PS3 or whatever, but with modern systems surely the map zones could be merged into a single zone now?

For example, the Crystarium, Old Sharlayan, Radz are all single zones despite being big, so the technology is definitely there.

Seconded. The PS3 is dead along with its 128 MB RAM.

This sounds like the kind of low risk, high return project SE can give to the interns during the 7.X patch cycle to me! Or a "lunchtime project" like flying in ARR zones was.