I find it a bit fascinating. For years city-elves have sucked, and even small changes and quality of life improvement have been rejected. In fact the few things the city elves did have slowly been taken away for one reason or another (tribes,clans, etc).
It is almost like there is a secret to c-elves that the player-base has never truly uncovered, an elf only item, ability or potential that is so shockingly broken that they staff have had no choice to unfortunately make sure it was very hard for any c-elf player to manage. I wonder how many staff were left battered and bruised in the battle to bring them the current improvements they have had....like making it so they have an easier time finding stuff to wear. lol

I like the ideas in this thread though, just to summarize a couple of the ideas that wouldn't completely break city elves:
1.Make them able to run on roads without stamina loss- this is a bonus for elves starting in Luirs.
2. Allow them to run behind wagons- This will allow c-elves to participate more in clan events regardless of location
3. Allow them to use skimmers- boon to city elves starting in Redstorm. (this one is more arguable since it breaks a restriction of no exploration however since i would love to make a place like Redstorm more viable for city elves so i am leaving it here.)
I agree desert elves would be too proud to use a skimmer, however city elves should have enough wisdom to understand you can't run on silt anyways. It would be a cultural division more than anything else.