thanks quatl. i decided to leave the buildings solid mainly for 2 reasons:

a) performance. the map has many many details that cost a lot of fps already, opening the buildings makes it even worse.

b) snipers. buildings that invite to walk through dont add much to the gameplay on which the map focuses. i dont want to create an incentive to sniper but rather the opposite: noobs, lern how to run, fight and win the struggles. :-)

but from a pure optical perspective it would be much nicer, i agree. its one of the major weaknesses i have to take to have it fun-to-play and not just to watch.

thanks for your comment!

thanks blindabuser, first for the compliment on berlin wall but for the rating and your useful comments too. and of course you are right: i mash up styles as usual. :-D the church is rather gothic-themed, which does exist in italy but is rather common in nothern europe. honestly i rather named it that way for the idea of such a lovely square which italy has a lot and my home country germany lacks seriously than for making you guys believe its italy. ;-)

the dead-end corners are "kind-of" on purpose. one (the one that you can access from the teleport in the phone booth) is for the cases that you hold the flag but the flag at your own base is gone. then you automatically look for a place where you can be only attacked from one side (except the teleport destination of course), which this dead end road offers. the other flagman has a similar place of "control" but its somewhat hidden and tricky to get up there. in instactf you have to take the jump between the two houses with the awnings and walk along the spur towards the dark wooden gangway. in ctf you can rocketjump it. nevertheless the ladder idea sounds good. i will keep that in mind. :-)

the map has a lot of teleports, because i want the people to be interested in the map even after a while of 1on1s. working with the advantages of the teleport usually takes you a while but males you superior. i do exactly know what you mean by vicious circle but the problem was that i didnt want them to shortcut the already short distance between the flags in any ctf mode. so i had to make them unattractive for this diagonal direction. but i will take a look at them too. if you have any specific idea to improve them and keep the distances for ctf-modes, let me know.

you are definitively right that i could pep up the undergroound a little more and i will do.

thanks, blindabuser.

It's not anything to do with the map really, I mean, the lighting could perhaps be a little better (I don't think it does the architecture justice). On the aspects of this being a map designed for gameplay, I think it is a bit cramped for Sauerbraten's style. Too much to get stuck/caught on while traversing at breakneck speeds, or maybe I just suck.

Nonetheless, don't take offense, votes like mine get graded on a very steep slope as I compare them to every piece of content on Quadropolis, and there is some damn fine work out there, some of which only got four stars from me.

It is like "venice", and there isn't much you can do about that crampiness, I wouldn't say you need to change anything in that regard really - it is what it is and does what it is designed to do. I think where it does lose points for me is on the colours/theme/lighting.

While its Italian, I feel like I'm walking around dreary ol' England; perhaps brighten it up a little, and swap out some of the textures for better ones. Texturing and lighting is one of the hardest things to do right, and I'm no good at it myself - I usually fluke it and boast about how awesome it is when I don't know how I even pulled it off - so my advice is probably moot :P