Great job for your first map. So here is my 2 cents from a fello mapper. Lots of great detail work, great ambient feel, nice layout and flow to it. Recommendations: Frame rates are poor because of all the static props, you may want to limit their draw/view distances to help with FPS or think about line of site issues when making your next map so the processor has less to deal with. Also, there are "black" areas on your brushes as the lightmap setting may be to high..try changing the setting from 16 to 8 or 4...it will look smoother. Some of your plant props need to have vphysics changed to nonsolid. I was not crazy about getting killed for jumping over some fences...maybe just larger playerclipping to prevent people from getting there in the first place. Overall great job on the map...very nice work. Cheers, Redclaw

This map looks like one of my sick dreams. Look really realistic and good.

Thanks for all the nice comments guys. :)

I'm not going to an admin about his post, everybody is entitled to their own opinion, if they want to rate certain aspects of this map a 0, that's ok, I just ask that they explain why so my next map can be better.

Anyway, I kind of understand where he is coming from, I didn't focus on the gameplay for this map, I just wanted to build a small environment to get used to the source engine, but I wouldn't entirely say that the map has 0 gameplay, 0 design, 0 fun.. but whatever.

Anyway, here is something for those of you who downloaded the map to do. In the level are 5 skulls, they don't require some ridiculous stunt to find, go get em ;). The last skull requires you do use the resources on the map to get to it, but there is a greater reward for finding this skull than the other 4 skulls. Have fun :)

Appeal his assessment. Admins will look into it. You appeal, if he rejects, an admin will come after you reject his rejection :D

Hmm this looks like a good ma- HOLY SHIT!

GJ!