everything is so distant i feel alienated from graal, graal has always had one format pretty much every server follows.

The land is big and wide you can explore easily.
Their is always a center chosen by players to hang out in such as graal city,town center,era city or whatever you call it .
the old map had it all , a nice center were players could communicate and had everything near them like a city
Such as trade tables,pets,missions,robots ect. + u are flown right in that center after completing a mission so everything is all right.

What we wanted was to remove some of those buildings south and up north of the map that were taking up useless Space
Though don't make the map too small because we need areas to get trash.

Id say multiple planets would be a good idea aswell, skyworld can be the graal city of zone while other planets could have their own themes, creatures and history with quests inside them such as:

The government Of Zadka have been breaking international space laws and are creating super weapons to Conquer the universe, you unknown must go to the planet and bring your friends to defeat them by breaking into the research facility and destroy their shield reactors, and then set a bomb on it and escape in time but watch out for the sentinels who will shoot you the minute they see you

The tiles need to be improved im thinking a tron looking tileset
Anyway either go back or reunite all the islands together and reform that towncenter you had in the last gmap.