"when you play quake, you are supposed to be the Hero"

Right on! So all you others who God, Fly, no_clip, etc; shame on you. Play, kill, win - be the Hero. Live the life. Get the girl... 

I give some critique, and I get this in return. It is not about slow hardware. It is about sensible level design. The cyberdemon isn't too hard to kill, he's too hard to kill in relation to standard quake monsters.
The map doesn't run too slow and isn't designed sloppily when run on modern hardware. It is running slow and designed sloppily in relation to standard quake maps. It just _shows_ when run on slower hardware, modern hardware _masks_ those problems.
The hangar isn't too big, it's just out of proportion.
I didn't ask you to make easy maps.
Come on, it's not like I killed your babies or something. 

It wasn't that the cyberdemons were too hard to kill, it was more that killing them took 5 minutes and was not really exciting. (Strafing around while holding down the fire button.)

Sorry about your hardware sucking so hard though, nico 

gripe about this map was actually also the demons' high hp and firepower. Its original power was of course since it was the Doom end boss (and only one).

Like Zwiffle mentioned, I also felt the step-up in difficulty from the rest of the map was too big. Otherwise, this is a fresh map with new colour tones and good combat to match.

And the map is definitely not sloppily designed; load up WinQuake, enable r_draworder 1 and take a walk around. You'll notice how well occluded the various areas are. 

The hangar isn't too big, it's just out of proportion

Please, try the map in hard skill, and defeat the 5 CyberDemons... you will see then the hangar is quite "stretchy"

And about the fact you felt hurted by my reply: It's not against you, but you have to admit 90's PC are not usable at all nowaday... and here on func_, fitzQuake is taken as a reference engine for most of the players (I guess)... sorry fot this... 

I had mostly nice fps, this was much better for my computer than Ankh's map (it was different style anyway and I am only commenting system requirements here, not overall "map goodness"). I only think the big amount of flicker lights or something in the first big room caused my fps to go to 20-30. Otherwise the map was fine, I probably had solid 72.

Maps like czg's terra series or metlslime's ant never lagged for me for one millisecond, I even know at least terra is playable in plain software (many play qw with that). I've played QW with this computer succesfully and never had FPS problems there either.

I have a P3 500, with 256 megs of ram, it's a somewhat old system, but not totally unreasonable.

I understand if Marcher gives some lag, but it's a concept map and really couldn't be done in any other way. It's stretching quake's limits and all that jazz. Necros' marble quoth map lagged to me at points even though it didn't have big rooms but the vis blocking was done badly, or not much taken into account. All the major areas were connected by pretty small but short and straight corridors. This was not a problem in your map. Your map would have been perfect without that one hitch, that was noticeable since it was in the beginning. It doesn't make the map bad or anything, I'm just saying that, well, it's partly my problem and partly a design issue. It's a tradeoff and I understand that you can say that old comps don't need to run new maps greatly, but if it's easy to do some small modifications to make them run it without detracting measurably from the map's overall goodness, one should do it. I didn't have any fps problems in the end hall.

In conclusion, an example: Necros' marble should have run with good fps on my comp. Marcher could never ever have run well anyway and I understand it. Not to dis Necros, it was a Quoth demo map anyway and he probably didn't spend months perfecting it. :) 

In my GL-engines and FitzQuake, you can enable cvar r_flatlightstyles 1 and improve fps significantly when there are many animated lights (torches, flickering lights etc).

In bigger maps like gmsp3, this can have a major impact on fps even on otherwise fast machines. 

will try that! 

At some point I want to write up a page explaining how to do performance/quality confuguration in fitzquake. They're documented in the readme, but there's no guide to using them that explains the tradeoffs. 

Nice map with interesting base architecture and good gameplay most of the time. I liked the base textures and the lightning. Also the way the base (or is it a space ship?) is build is very good. I have replayed the level again on hard and it still was interesting to walk in the corridors and watch the details. There were many good ambushes (opening windows/walls with monsters behind them, fiends) and also getting the GL early was fun. I didn't even notice that the NG was introduced too late, for me it was ok. GL and SSG was enough for the first part of the map. I was lacking armor in the middle part (but a secret helped me). Maybe too many monsters were hidden inside secret areas. I didn't like the gameplay in the final area. The monsters spreaded all over the hangar were an easy kill and the cyber demons were terrible for me. I have found 3 secrets which were very helpful. The amount of ammo was just right (sometimes it was too much to pick it up and after a while I had to go back to take it). The same thing about health. There were too many weapons introduced in the level. You could easily leave out the RL and the LG if there weren't those stupid cyber demons.
Anyway the map was great and I enjoyed it very much. 

I liked this, well laid out and seemed well balenced. I had to quickload on one ambush where I was destroyed to go back and escape to the right place but otherwise they seemed to hit at the right time where they leave you weak afterwards and are scary/suprising when they hit. The blastertraps I didn�t like, but that�s just my preference. The cyberdemons were kind of spoiled - there should have been less in the final area, with less health, but one featured as a mid boss before you�re fully armed in maybe a mini-maze type locale. The final hanger was just too big. It doesn�t work well with Q1 monsters. The modeling was good (ships) but I get the feeling flying enemies (scrags, basicly) were left out unnecessarily. Using an area of this size needs respawning horde combat, serious sam style. Other than that, and the slight dissapointment at not seeing a new model (yeah, moon on a stick) the map was well built, paced and styled.

thanks.