Although you've learned from Meow, the <1000 cubes theory is nothing but true as Cube Engine 2 isn't rendering by cubes, but by surfaces of the cubes which are often merged together in triangle-formed shapes (as 2 triangles form 1 square) after remipping. The editor just works as pushing and pulling cubes into different shapes because pushing and pulling triangles would make it a lot harder to use and requires a different approach.

Feel free to be convinced that the <1000 cubes theory is the truth, but perhaps you should check the source code once more.

This rises an interesting point, my opinion is to not take care about cubecount at all. Do the layout usign grid power 6 and, in general, follow always the grids as much as possible so that all you build will be "well remipped" but then, if you need some details, do them and don't save cubes anymore.
This, if the map will turn out huge, will allow you to use the lightlod command to optimize filesize.

All the blablabla about the heavy maps is quite pointless to me; currently an average laptop, or even a quite cheap one can handle much more than current sauer's standards.
If your game lags a lot consider to check out your OS/softwares/other processes running before stopping yourself to edit cuz you've reached 1000 cubes.
If all is working properly consider to buy a new laptop.

yeah makes sense really.
Maybe i missed the whole 'theory' business, i always thought of it as a creative challenge.

It's something which meow refuses to understand and I've tried to explain him several times. I was afraid you've been taught that from him. So sorry, my bad =P.

Was talking about the raw challenge of being creative with less than 1000 cubes rather than any performance based thing or 'theory'. That is what I wrote after all. Nevertheless, feel free to project your assumptions on to me.

Agreed, this map lacks anything beyond a messy brawl. CTF becomes just a senseless brawl on it. May try and work on game play a bit more on it when i get time, definitely will require moving a lot of things, but will try to maintain the theme.

noob question i'm too lazy to look up: Why don't i ever see all the PSL servers on the server list? (i see some empty ones way down the list), could be my timezone though.

Because they are empty. Sauerbraten's server list still works from most to least players. If servers contain the same ammount, the best connection takes places.
I'm not sure if this is even documented.

You don't see psl 2-4 because they are not listed. You have to "keep-"/"addserver" them :) or type in the direct connect code.
They might be empty from time to time lol but seriously: Most of the time they arent. They just dont appear in your server browser.
check out the sauercom blog for the connect codes if you want to watch some decent games :)

ahh, thanks!