That intro was.. thorough.

I don't really get this. It looked somewhat okay from the screenshot, but once in the map I realized - it's WAY too small. This would be too small for even 1-1 I think, and because there's so little to look at or move on I think it would get boring really fast. I wouldn't call this flow, more than a square with a staircase.

The lighting is way too powerful. The white textures are almost pure white as a result, and the shadows are almost pure dark, with little transition from light to dark.

The textures you included aren't that good either. For this theme you would have been better off using the Trak5 or Justice textureset. Both have high-res (yours are quite low-resolution) and basic textures in them. And using them means the Sauer package is less bloated :P

I don't really get the ammo placement things.. The X makes sense, but putting the other stuff nearby makes it weird.

I wouldn't advertise that it took only a few hours to complete the map. It's self-evident, but nothing to be proud of since maps that take less than 12 hours to make are generally not worth posting. Also, I wouldn't have bothered posting about its gameplay or 'original' design. Those are subjective and again, self-evident (or not evident at all, depending on who looks at the map).

As for the theme, I didn't get anything from it. I know it's not a medieval castle for example, but modern? That alone doesn't seem like a theme.. This is very similar in design to Metallicity, which had a bunch of curvy things but no real theme. I believe it had an update using the Justice textures too - it all comes together :o

Finally, if you knew there were still some obvious things to fix, why would you submit it so quickly? Incomplete maps are always voted lower than their potential, and few people return to nodes they've voted on to update their votes. You could only stand to lose in that regard. The only reason would be to get comments on how to fix the map before you work for too long on it, but since lighting, materials, textures, ammo, and architecture are all done, this is probably not the case.

General rule: if you yourself can pick out a few things wrong with the map, you know the community is going to find waaaay more wrong with it. Take a step back, and don't submit the map for maybe 2 weeks after you complete it. Then you can see with clearer insight as to what is wrong with it.

Thanks, but I don't wanna use Nieb's textures, I tried to texture the map with them but it looked wierd. I know the lighting is too powerful but it will be not so powerful the elements will look like s**t so I tried /skylight 150 in beta 1 - you saw many-many light's mistakes.

BTW the map called tartech is small like this one but tartech has clipping so you can't fall off the map. These maps are for duels 1 on 1 only IMHO.

Design: yes, it's pretty simple but I'll try to add more specific details on map. Dark and light were made special for map - it can be the part of theme, isn't it.

P.S.: I work on CTF map Sauerbraten and I think it will be really good - different design and others. I need to post maps at here cause I can't find any of nice mapper in online - I've seen MisanthropX only one time and noone more. If someone of nice mappers can help me from time to time - I will be very glad to hear it.

Nice I love this clean style.

The map is really small, as noticed upside, but i thing is enough. Maybe better in 5min games (for the high frequency), however, a duel map is hard that is boring for me.

The red texture is not the best of all, it looks to compressed, is easy to do a new one.
Other textures are nice.

make everything bigger and the map is perfect