@Swordhunter:
1. Its unrealistic. Even in the old days, buildings were still set up in lines and rows, not just all over the place. Considering its a large city and all.
2. Make the streets more narrow. Maybe 3-4 tiles wide, but no larger. To fill in the extra space, place trees. Now the default one is kinda ugly- edit the tileset to include the trees from the forest tileset, they're much nice.
3. Think about the environment. Where is this city? A barren plane of grass and the occasional tree? Nah. From the building selection and the use of palm trees, I'd say that east side of the map is supposed to be a beach. Once more, edit the tileset to include the Beach Road tileset. Place large forest trees on the upper part of the cliff (part with the city) and lots of other things here and there.
3b. As for the beach, make sure the path leading down to it from the cliff is facing down, like the one near the south end of the cliff. Not sure if its been made or not, but if you find a downward slope of the beach cliff, use that. At the north end place a bunch of big trees, showing the player you need to use the cliff path. Once again, dont make the beach too wide.
4. Tip for placing trees: Put the lower half of the tree on the second layer, and the top half on the third layer. For EVERY tree. This makes overlapping much easier. If you have extra room after a map is done, put full trees on the third layer.
5. Shouldn't put that many windows on buildings. Get rid of all of them first. On each building, put only one kind of window, without flowers. Space them out logically, as though you were looking out of them from the inside of the building. Every window on a building is the same (generally) so, theres no reason for them not to match. Once thats done, put flowers on SOME of the windows, not all.
6. Make sure all the exits of the city are the same size. One wall has a narrow little space to slip through, another is huge.
7. Im not too sure whether those wooden things are buildings or crates, but either way the small shack outside of town looks odd.
8. Use the patchy dirt, not the full one. It'll look better, more natural, and it wont stick out so much.
9. In MMO's, towns typically have a center area, kinda open, where players generally hang out and do whatever it is they do in towns. Maybe add 1 or 2 fountains (Unless those two events there are fountains) and maybe a simple merchant that sells healing potions or whatever.
10. When you place more buildings so that they're in rows and lines (like in real life, as mentioned in a previous paragraph in this post) try making buildings a bit smaller, not everyone lives in a huge house. When placing NPC's, think about what building they live in, what they're doing where they are, and thier personality.
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That should make it a much better map. Sorry if it may have sounded harsh, I dont mean to, just giving you pointers as to how a good map looks like. Also sorry if you didn't intend for there to be a beach on the east side, just an assumption. But hey, I think it'd be pretty cool. Fix up that map with the tips I gave you, and repost it here.
