My point about the r_speeds is mostly this: it would be pretty simple to fix. You don't have to drop detail, all you have to do is put a kink in that corridor I was in and your peak should drop to ~12-1300, which is still high but quite accepatable by today's stnadards.

Finally i had time upload the images to my ftp. Well heres what i have done so far:

Note that the pictures are a bit darker than they really are ingame.

I thought that this room is one of the main areas and therefore making this room better would improve the overall impression of the map pretty much.
So i decided to remove lots of the white lights and strengthen the red lites seen to the right which i think made it look much more scary and not so "black and white" anymore.

In this corridor (seen to the left of the pic) I have removed a few lights making the small stair very dark and put some small lights at the sides just to break the darkness a little bit and creating a relly nice atmosphere.

Earlier today i had some time to improve the outdoor area. During the gametests i realized that this place was a bit too dark to be able to spot the enemy. So i increased the strength of the small lights and decreased the light_enviroment to create some nice shadows aswell. Im not really done with this part just yet.

This room gives me a real headache. The lightning just doesnt want to get right.
I have done some adjustments here and there which made it a little better but im still not happy... Suggestions are very appreciated.

Thanks to Tracer bullet who highlighted this problem i chose to make something cool with the holes in the ceiling by removing all the lights around it and putting a strong white light_spot do simulate the light from the hole. This makes it feel a little bit like a lighthouse in the darkness or something like that ^_^. I like the effect pretty much actually and i have done almost the same thing at the other place.

Heres another view of the "main" room. On the right you can see the other lightpool i mentioned above. Here you can see a signifiant differnece in the lightning of this area.
Ive removed almost all the lights in this "corridor" and let the lights from the main room light it up instead to make it look more scary and "atmospheric".

Finally i have taken a picture of the overview to show you the difference of the lightning compared to what i had before.

Other notes:
Because of the removal of so many lights, the compile time has cut down to half (from 1hour and 20 minutes to about 40 minutes). Which is a great thing.
I have also decreased the "bounce" option from 2 to 1 to make more sharp shadows.
Another great thing is that the map looks better than ever before ^_^.
I have uploaded the map to my ftp also so you can download it and take a look at it in its current state.
I have not yet started to fix the r_speeds problem but i have figured out a very simple and clean solution that will not affect the gameplay much at all and doesnt take much time to change either.

Download the map: http://home.no/misterbister/maps/DmCore.zip

Comments on the current pictures are very much appreciated.