Originally Posted by
Mirura
I'd really love a more Blade Runner-esque cold, dark, dystopian cyberpunk look. Make the streets narrower in omni cities, more mazelike, add all kinds of small cornershops to the street level, LAYER the cityscape and make the buildings reach into the sky so it's dark and dim at the bottom street level. Neon lights, Phasefront cabs, rain, murk, more dim little back-alley bars. Luxurious shops and clubs on the higher levels extending well above the lower-class street dwellers. Sewage drains and dirt!
Old Athen should look like a worn, beaten-up version of this. Have roughly half of the buildings out of official use, bombed out and inhabited by low-lives and lurking mutants, and give the Rubi-Kan criminal underground good dwelling places for blackmarket activity to happen. There should be thieves, hackers, smugglers and swindlers fighting for territory. Underground networks and secret societies nesting in abandoned houses.
Desert towns are quite good as they are, and Tir feels big and much like a maze, though the buildings could be taller and the empty space at the middle, with the Fair Trade and Silverstone's spot, feels .. empty. It could be replaced with a marketplace like the one around Reets.
More functional interiors. No more doors that lead nowhere or mini-missions, give us interior spaces that feed and encourage roleplay - offices, abandoned nightclubs, warehouses, overall places to gather in secrecy and use creatively for RP purposes, *PRISONS*, clinics, more places like the interesting interiors in 4 Holes. Furnish them so that they can be inhabited, give RK apartments beds and kitchens and windows, give the furniture collision so we can sit on our sofas and use our tables.
Add more clothes to Miiir shops. Replace the strange, neon-coloured oddball clothes with something more like the Red/Blue/Orange/whatever rubber suits - good-looking, appropriately sci-fi themed outfits made with effort and care. Black, grey, steel blue, neon accents, olive green, shiny latex, leather, cyber corsets for females, more unique sunglasses and hats to accessorize with (the visors are great, alternative looks would be fantastic), headphones, bodysuits. Clothes to endure desert conditions for those who don't live within the comfort of city walls - the Nomad armors are nice, but we could really use some variety with shawls, protective masks, more ragged and worn-out looks for clothes - something along the lines of a mix between the Nomad and Sentinel armors.
Also add social interiors to desert towns, too. I'm sure a lot of people would like to roleplay desert dwellers, but the current conditions kinda force everyone to stick to a few select cities.
Revamp Borealis. In its current form it doesn't feel like an inhabited city at all. There are no social interiors (except one near the Subway), no proper places for people to gather, no citylike functions, it's too blank and cramped and uninspiring with a few shops. When people start hanging out on the street, it means there's severe need for a social gathering place. Again, give more incentive to roleplay - Borealis's setting is great for faction conflict and illegal trade among all other things. It would be a great hub for people to meet in and mingle, right now it only attracts PVPers.
Newland I don't actually have much complaints about at all. It's laid out pretty well, though there are too many doors leading nowhere.
Crap, this turned out longer than it was supposed to D:
Edit: Hell, I'll even sketch up some ideas and post them whenever I'm not overburdened with work.
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RK is the core of Anarchy Online in my opinion, not shadowlands. 
