Lord Kv I absolutely love this map!!! xDDD The atmosphere and everything is just marvelous! :D And I'm not just saying this because you're paying me! *cough* thanks for the credit *cough* ;D

You did very well using /gridpower 5 in many places, my fps fly smooth like a butterfly :D There is still room for improvement though, as you could've built the walls of buildings resized from the outside in gp 5 too, e.g.. But as my fps are ok i can't really criticize this, everything looks solid.

The floating lava and blendmaps look fantastic, the little ash particles add a lot to the flair and the sounds are just terrific. There are more sounds like this in sauer. Maybe have a ear on mapsound "ambience/fire_light" 100 -1; mapsound "soundtransit/distant_storm" 100 -1; mapsound "ambience/wind" 100 -1; mapsound "ambience/lavarumble2" 100 -1; mapsound "ambience/water" 100 -1; or look in the sounds folder for more!

What I'm missing a bit is that you can't go inside the volcano, nor on the upper ranks of the watchtowers. Also you should clarify the license with version number (and link) in maptitle and readme. The packaging of the zip and loading picture are great. I hope this map finds its way into the release someday :D

love, meow! =)

Just flat map, almost everything filled with clip. Think layout like that is boring for real games on it.

I'm dying to know how you made the lava flows! Otherwise, this is an extremely awesome map, very high quality work. I think that it's both pretty and functional.

A few things I like and dislike about the map:
THE GOOD
-Good ambiance. I like whatever you've done to darken the skybox (I'm not familiar with every command)
-I like the actual circular path of the map. I think adding a path under the volcano would be a mistake, the circular flow is somewhat unique.
-I also like the name. It was on my list of "awesome sounding names for a map that haven't been used yet" but I guess I can cross it off now. (I actually have such a list)
THE BAD
-The clipping is too restrictive in spots and not enough in others. On the outside of the map, you can get on top of the clipping pretty easily and then walk over the clipping on the inner part of the map. I'm not sure why you're so against players being blasted into the air that you clipped low over the inner part of the map.
-This map is flat and boring from a tactical standpoint.
THE UGLY
-every staircase looks terrible to me. I find the cobblestone texture to be ugly on the topside of stairs, to say nothing of the vertical side. overall, you could use a few more stone textures instead of the approximately 4 you have right now.

I rated this 8/10 yesterday, but on reconsidering how poor the flow is right now, I'm bumping it down to 7/10. This map desperately needs more interesting flow. (like I and diGruve said, too flat)

@pirtchard (texscroll + texture blendpaint ;p)
@mmeaninglez - darkened skybox - the command is skybox colour r b g (255 = orginal diffused color of the texture)

First id like to say, that his is a major improvement on your last few maps, also good job on the lava trick ;p quite ingenuous

cliping

As i agree with everyone, the clipping on the map is very restrictive i would suggest only clipping the main mountaintop and the water surrounding the island. The reason for this is it allows better game flow (people to get above there enemy and shoot down on them. Also allows more ways to move through the map, so people dont get bunched up and can sneek around the back side of it.

Side note: when doing clipping make sure your cant get on top of the clipping, it should be a box around the area (some of your clipping is possible to get on top of (with a lil work). It is ok to clip a players verticle ability (z axis) hitting your head on clip is ok if you are rocket/ grenade jumping (in portions of your map).

layout

Your general layout if fairly good, excluding the over use of clipping (and miss clipping), the general flow of the map is relatively well layed out. I noticed no capture point (base ents) on your map. I think that this would make a good capture map, maybe you should put some in :) Some thing i would add are ladders to the watchtowers (allowing players to get on top of both of the watchtowers, and the half tower on the one side (ladders should be in the base giving the ability to the defensive team).

pickups

Note: im not too familiar with fps pickup games (since most severs run insta ctf or regen cap).
I think that the pickups are to bunched, you will have 3 or 4 of the same time in a given area, i would suggest spreading it out more (different types in the same area) and maybe taking half as many pickups as you have right now (then again i think insta ctf would be the best mode on this map, so .. ).

lighting

I think the thing that could use the biggest improvement is the lighting. Now before i critique id like to put in a plug for tesseract- basically no more waiting for lightcalcs ;p
Anyway, to lighting:
Ok so your lights all have this "white light" effect, (bascially instead of leaving a resient color it leaves a more or less pale look to your map). Why is this happening? Well the simplist answer, you are setting your light too bright. Ok so how bright should i set a light? The brightest i would set a light is at about 180, but thats on a bright map (something like niebs garden) rather in a dark gloomy map, something like 150-160 is definately bright enough. Ok Second problem, you are setting your domminate color and your secondary color too close in value. So on your map you get this over all yellowish color, this is not very mood setting, rather making a more bold color like orange would be better. So when setting your light your value should look like r = 158 g = 84 b 58. this gives a nice orange color to the map, that feels more like torchs burnning on an abandon island, then your yellowish lights that look like florescent light bulbs.

Ok other problems: making ambient lights is good. What is an ambient light? well its a light that does not cast a shadow (also known as dynamic lights). How do i set one of these up? Simple newent light r b g 1 (1 = no shadow mode on the light, default 0 = shadow mode). So how do i use these lights? These lights are use to simulate bouncing light. Basically in the real world light does not hit an object and dissipate, it bounces off the surface 3 4 or more times. In our game to calculate such light would be extremely expensive (and we maybe able to get one frame a minute. So we hack it. Basically dark corners boom light not dark ;p but because these don't cast shadows, they dont mess with our eyes (seeing shadows that shouldn't exist). Personally i like to set ambient 10 10 10 (or 5 5 5 or something low) and use these lights to light corners, this way i have more control over the environment. this may lead to lots of lights 0.0 so ... ;p

detailing

This is one area were you really lacked, there are about 30 models that are medieval driven (not counting the food and wine bottle and some of the shitty ones). You used about 10 of them. MODELS ARE CHEEP, i mean it you can put 100 models on the screen cheaper then detailing on in cubes (basically your fps will be higher) so use models ;p i did however like your use of them in some areas of the map, but there are many more you could use to help finish up your map.

So this map is perfect for what is called out of map detailing (basically details that players will not play on, but add to the environment of the map making islands in the water would spruce up the map, with out causing any one to lag too much. (you can add so much by just making an island with some dead trees on it. or a pile of skeletons etc.

In map detailing is lacking too, you boarded up basically every building (maybe have a window open and show us whats inside) :) or add some axes on the wall, or skeletons lining the halls or a statue in the base.

so i spent about 6 hrs playing around with some of the things i mentioned above, heres a link

below are some pictures:

humble master
chasester

I'm going to remove most of the clipping, make the towers accessible and think about some new upper paths.

Content
Finally found some time to comment on this node. I actually was looking forward to do so.
The screenshot looks very promising. It shows of the dimensions very well.
The storyline is well thought, nothing to say about. However, the side-information on the node is pretty odd; Don't state people should turn off their music to hear your sounds. You should rather make sure you can hear them at the default music volume (60).
I'm sure Sauerbraten already had certain sounds for waves, wind and lava; but ok, those which you are using feel like they fit.

Theme
The theme seems similar to tortuga, a visual night-themed abandoned area which is near the ocean (I know, it's not really night-themed as the skybox shows off but it fits in that category).
To make the ocean really more like an ocean (instead of a swimming pool), what about changing the causticscale to something like 100 and the causticsmillis 90? It's just a small detail actually.
It feels like (burning) lavarocks are missing on the island, they could be a pretty original light-source as well instead of using torches nearly everywhere.

Texturing
The texturing is one of the best but also one of the worst things of the map.
The best thing is the use of the textureblending (on lava and floors). It's a quite original and inventive way of using the lavatexture that way which (nearly) any map showed before.
The worse part of the texturing is that the buildings and stairs (as being stated before) all carry 1 (sometimes 2) texture(s). It feels very unfinished.

The next screenshot shows off what I actually mean.

Geometry
The geometry is fine, but could be better if you ask me. It's nice to see you try to keep it simple and efficient as possible, but don't push that too far. As for example displayed in the screenshot which is at Texturing, the arches are very square for no actual reason. Give them a little more love to look right.

Lighting
The lighting is pretty good, I like the atmosphere. not much to mention about.
However, the big hallway in the centre of the map feels pretty odd lighted with those candles. What about adding a gab in the ceiling which let some ambient light inside the room? Or maybe even some lava which is appears in that area.

The room which I'm actually talking about is displayed in the next screenshot.

Detailing
There have been added quite a lot details, but it seems like the map is still lacking so. What about adding trimmings on buildings (as like on doorways) and using several more mapmodels (I know, has been stated by someone else also). Keep in mind that the magic of a detail is when it stays a detail. When a certain object has been used several times around the map, it loses the magic of being eye catching and worth to look at.

Clipping/Noclipping
I won't say much about this as a lot of other people have stated things already. You may have overclipped certain things (like the pillar below the arch of the building in that screenshot which is at Texturing, but people forgot that clipping also makes a map rendered more smooth, as PVS culling negates all geometry which is inside clipping material (if it would be used in this case, but I doubt that).
You forgot to noclip some of the trimmings at the bottom of the map.

Flow
As being stated by several others, it's very flat (which make it seriously boring to run around). As there is only one way to actually change that, what tightening the huge room with those candles in the centre of the map and let only a few ways form a junction (instead of 5, only 3)? This forces players to use the sidepaths of the map instead of just walking straight across the map.
Another idea next to that is to let certain paths to buildings go up (or down) and (obviously) have a higher or lower entrance.
After thinking another time, what about deleting the path to each base which is being displayed in the screenshot below this point? That huge hall has 4 entrances already which are easily accessible from both sides and makes those other paths pretty useless as that just is the fastest way to each base from that area.

Gameplay
The weapon placement is horrid, I have no other word for it. Try to add (way) less health (only keep only a maximum of 16), bullets (keep about 18) while add more grenades (increase the amount up to about 20) and shells (also, an amount of 20 should do). While having such less health, add 2 more greenarmour (1 for each base) and maybe even a powerup (which isn't there anyway? it feels like the quaddamage is missing in such violent area created by mother nature).
Now about the actual placing of the pickups; don't just put them near a wall. Why not? Because that actually makes it (nearly) always save to pick as you aren't sighted from at least from 1 direction (which is the wall). Keep in mind that a pickup carries a certain risk factor that a player should conquer before actually getting rewarded with the pickup. The risk factor of the quaddamage should be more than just some health, but that should be quite obvious. By putting certain pickups (like rockets) more in the centre of an area, the risk of being detected by an opponent is way bigger than when it's placed near a wall.
The ammount of playerstarts could be some more, but that's probably due the fact that there is only 1 "normal" playerstart.
I don't think it should be a capture map in it's current state. However, I do like the idea of a map which is specifically designed for capture with the very same theme.

Overall
You can see there has been worked well on this map, but still lacks a few things to make it really good. I'll still rate it 6/10 for now.

In addition to most of the things said, i want to note that the map has several holes inside the walls, you should rat those out and fix them. Also, it would likely be best if you used a uniform lava texture instead of trying to combine the current and the explosion texture in one odd mix.

I also took a quick look at this interesting node and I would like to say some things :

+ Interesting theme and very original

+- Nice use of texlayer, although it causes a small problem at my pc, because the lava texture changes its color. If you come from the left side it is dark red , but if you watch it from the right side it is a bright orange

- The layout is very flat and kind of boring
- Texturing is not bad, but I would recommend some contrast

I just took a small look, because I thought this node would be worth to look at. So there may be a longer comment soon....