The roads also seem to get wider as they get closer to the palace. Also, I don't know how you planned on laying out the houses, but as close together as the roads are, you will only get one good size house between them (Assuming that they will have some sort of a garden area).
If you were to make the roads narrower, then you could increase the scale of the map, and still be able to get a lot more homes between the roads.
Of course, if you planning it that way, then disregard.
OK, so here's an update...
I completely re-did the walls, roads and added bridges. I think they are much better now, though the bridges probably still need some work and the walls are kind of jagged when you zoom in to full resolution. I'm sure there's a way to fix it, but I don't yet no how.
Found a bunch of stuff on the Dundjinni forums (thank you to whoever it was that suggested that). While I still haven't figured out the whole crystal tower thing yet, I substituted a glass/crystal dome. I also added some other detail like trees, a building, a fountain, and a dragon statue.
Overall I think it is starting to look like I had hoped.
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On a side note, thought I don't know how well it would work in practice (ie, how hard to make it look right in an image), from a concept point of view, having a whole city inside a huge dome would be really cool...Originally Posted by Steel General
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How about something like this for the tower:
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