1. it was a lot more than 1 hour of work, and no we arent pro mappers. also, often we wouldnt all work on it at once, usually just 3 or 4 of us at the same time.
2. what is wrong with 40fps? i can think of worse *cough* island_pre which was included in the main cube release *cough cough*
3. i personally don't like sauer physics(as it is right now) so what am i supposed to do for big, open maps?
4. correction: it is a map, though some would say a crappy map. o well, a crappy map is much better than no map at all, eh? at least i've learned something

Look guys, try to don't get angry when someone critics your map. If you upload it anywhere you must accept all kinds of critics, and they wont be always good ones. Only if someone offended you posting "Your map sucks, n00b, lol!" you should get angry.

Try to learn from critics.

What´s wrong with 40 fps ? A lot. Especially in a game as fast as this, when the standart maps usually run a lot faster.
The island map was rather added for eye candy reasons. It was only added coz it´s sort of impressive.That´s why it´s in "...more maps (3)"
Same goes for the togos map. That was one hell of a coop session and therefore hit the frontpage here, but not too practical as well.

You can´t make maps of such size in cube. It´s a limitation of the engine. Well you can of course, but don´t expect people to like the framerate drop.
Attacko, Douze, ogrosupply.. that´s about as large (when open) as you can go in cube... You can still make maps with long lines of sight, but you have to work with solids.

I didn´t say the map was crap, it just has some fundamental glitches (size, bland light, bland textures).

nick866: You´re right, graphics isn´t guaranteeing fun. But technically lacking maps aren´t either. No matter how funny it might be to play, I just wouldn´t. I´d get a headache.

ok, so how could i improve the map (without changing the general layout?)

To improve the map, you´d need more detail.
But you can only have more detail if you size it down.

The way I see it, the basic gameplay is around sniping at each other from the fort tops.
I don´t think you´d neccesairily need so much of space (especially width) devoted to this.

So make it smaller, until the basic layout unlit is about max 1000 wqd.

For the design part, when you have some wqd headroom, add some pillars or tower-like stuff to the fort walls, using a diffrent texture. This might help break up the flatness of those walls, and make it look more like forts. The forts atm are just walls.
You might frame the waterfall with rocks, because it looks weird comming out of nowhere.
Maybe add a back wall of some sort to the fort´s upper area, it´s always weird if the sky is blocking you.
The water parts look like denaturalized canals. Don´t think those fit too good into medevial setting. get some corners into them to make some more natural rivers and streams.
This can all only be done if you reduce the size of course.

Consider adding some solid structure in the middle of the map. Watchtower or something. A block of solid in the middle might well occlude up to 25% of the map. Consider two of those.
You´d still have the snipe across the map thing, but at less wqd and more tactical possibilities too.

Light: a big map like this won´t really work with loads of small lights of course, but try NOT to get rid of every shadow. Choose a cloudy skymap, so it´s more believable that the lightning has shades.
Just try to find a balance with big lights, that still give the map some contrast, but don´t show that obvious star pattern you get from them.

Why does the bar have to be that big? looks like a disco that´s not yet done. You could make it smaller.
Remember smaller means also you don´t have so much to do when detailing it. Goes for the whole map.