Recent CTs have generally been way too big and way too confusing to navigate. Pretty ugly too – they’re designed to look good in shadered screenshots from afar, like in the OP, but usually look like a mess when you’re there with your default texture pack on ground level. Need something small with clear signs, not just floating names hidden far in the distance, to tell you which direction to run in. I’d prefer having a resource island to having all the farms, markets, mines, etc. in the CT – those things make the CT unnecessarily big and usually they’re all scattered across the CT making them hard to find. However I think, rather than the resource island being an OOC place like last time, it should ICly be a CT-annex type deal where the Monks still own the land so PVP-off, no hostile RP, etc. Doesn’t make a huge difference, but IMO it’s weird to go to a place that’s completely OOC to collect your resources. Everywhere should be IC on the server.
Tl;dr as small and simple as possible, and stick all the resource stuff like farms and mines(and the markets at which you sell that stuff) together in one place. And no library.