apsp1, apsp2 (a.k.a. Plumbers), AD's Crucial Error & Terror Fuma, dis_sp6, Guncotton, ikspq5, Invein, lunsp1, map jam 7, oms3, ritualsp, scampsp1, slave, xplore... 

Thanks Mugwump!
Will have a look through these. I already had a look at apsp1 but didn't realize he did a second map :) 

You know you can filter maps by author on Quaddicted, right? You can safely DL all of Than's 7 maps there, there's not a single bad one (not all are base, though). Plumbers is one of the very best base maps I've ever played. As the name implies, expect to get wet. A lot.

Oh, and you're welcome... ;) 

His apsp2 is awesome (Plumbers Don't Wear Ties). I actually played it in standard Quake at first before I got stuck and realized I needed Quoth. I recommend playing through with both. Quoth so you can finish it. Standard ID1 first so you can get the feel of isolation and the sheer atmosphere. I actually liked it better in standard ID1, one of my favorite Quake experiences of all time...and it was by mistake! 

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Oh, and that's an awesome name BTW. 

pretty damn cool... 

Found the floor plan online, I’m thinking about trying to make it in Quake... 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/magazine/the-majestic-marble-quarries-of-northern-italy.html?_r=0 

https://www.nowness.com/story/artist-yuri-ancarani-il-capo 

nice 

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/08/the-marble-of-michelangelos-dreams/535836/ 

Thank you both so much for these links. From the age of 7-19 I lived in my mom's dream house. For many years she dreamt of having a white Carrara marble floor and when I was very young she and my dad were able to build their dream home with this magnificent entryway floored in Carrara. The marble was so beautiful and tough. When I was 18 my mother passed away and we ended up selling the house and moving away. Seeing where that magnificent stone came from is so special and somewhat emotional for me. Dreams do come true but they will always fade away. 

https://fr.pinterest.com/pin/400468591851142127/ 

Tree huts 

http://www.pbase.com/jakobe/decay 

http://imgur.com/gallery/ZnqV7 

https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/jk/eyfvh0qegmli.gif

https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/7h/j2g0yfi69y0u.gif

awesome model by andrew gilmour for the game SLAIN! (or possibly SLAIN! 2, not sure :P) 

make a cool quake model! 

i really dig the quake/dark souls vibe. 

https://twitter.com/PulpCovers/status/895650548761993216 

https://i.imgur.com/WJCOJOl.jpg 

because of how they're stacked each apartment complex has ground floor lift access 

I know I need to place some good-ass ambient sound effects in my map but it's a chore. I wish that sounds could be generated from the surface (just like light already is) in the texture editor so that you can get a drop-down menu right in there to select the sound you want emitted from the source, its attenuation and volume, repeated or not and be done with it, but right now this doesn't exist.

It's a chore, please inspire me. 

It's good to have a visual cue that motivates the sound. So a crack in a wall would be a good excuse to put howling wind at that spot. Same with blinking computer textures, put some ambient computer sounds there. Small, dark hallways can have some kind of unique rumble or hum as if they are near a sound source. 

It's what I am currently doing but oh well, I got to churn it out.

Anyhow, which was the first Quake-map to use jumppads? I'm not talking first for either games, but just the first. I know Quake has the tech to make jumppads which was already used in the wind tunnel map E3M5, but it wasn't exactly the concept of jumppads as portray'd in Quake 3.