Why not improve the 3 initial city-states?

[Xactly]

While the 3 city-states serve as your destination when you use datacenter travel and world visit via character select or if the zone you were in got congested.

Though my suggestion would be off topic about improving the 3 city-states.
But with how crowded it usually gets around Aetherytes may it be from datacenter traveling, world visiting to check the market boards or afkíng or hanging out/waiting for pf to fill up.

What about the expansion cities one would often leave behind for a new city when there's less need to be there unless for msq reasons where they would add instances or specific side content like field exploration?
Wouldn't some of those cities benefit if it had the world visit option on their Aetheryte?

For example if a crafter's reason to visit is to quickly check the marketboards between worlds I think the distance closest (from my memory) would have been
Old Sharlayan > Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks > Ul'dah - Kugane - Ishgard > Tuliyollal - Crystarium > Gridania.

Though maybe with Early Access or a patch release it might be a bit better to exclude the current (till x.1) and the new city since those usually would be expected to have temporary instances which is something I never see with the ARR cities.

[MAJRIS]

not in the pipeline.

there's giant amount of events and pointers in the city maps that would have to be redone and QA'd after that. it would be lot of effort for no benefit.

[Veritas-Ancora]

I would like additional zones to the city-states, instead of rebuilding from scratch.

[VeyaAkemi]

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Include some lore blurb that a lot of people feel it's awkward placing, but it was a common demand from adventurers, so the cities folded, and bam, perfect.

[BlisteringFrost]

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Include some lore blurb that a lot of people feel it's awkward placing, but it was a common demand from adventurers, so the cities folded, and bam, perfect.

Works for me. But something about "Our server space can't handle it...." ringing in the distance. Followed by "Sorry."

[Darkshade]

Firebomb Limsa, Redwings style

[LukaRoselia]

No chance this ever happens unfortunately. Remember how much of a 144p blob Limsa used to look like and even then that was only fixed because it was in the background of a trial. That's nothing akin to a full rework of the cities but it would be something I'd like all the same though as you said, most of Dawntrails cityspace feels empty as hell so all we'd really be getting is the seamless zone and no 2 instances like it is now.

[Brandr]

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Include some lore blurb that a lot of people feel it's awkward placing, but it was a common demand from adventurers, so the cities folded, and bam, perfect.

This is... Beautiful... Just so beautiful...

[Infindox]

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Include some lore blurb that a lot of people feel it's awkward placing, but it was a common demand from adventurers, so the cities folded, and bam, perfect.

While I agree with this, I'd like to see the MB in the "end game cities" (Mor Dhona, Idylshire, Rhalger's, etc).

[JMadFour]

as long as the improvements include doing something about the weirdo with 5 million naked roegadyn bots posted at the Limsa Aetheryte 24/7.