Ignore Fragtastic. He always comments on every old map assuming the author's still there reading the comments after 17 years, and he's been recently exposed as a fraud for submitting someone else's map from 2001 as his own work. Edited 1.23 minutes after the original posting.
At the time DM17 wasn't a "classic".. I put this out about 2 weeks after Q3 came out. It was a huge pain because Radiant didn't handle the mirroring very well. I ended up doing the mirroring in a text editor, then importing that. If you don't like it, don't download it, or better yet... do your own map, and enjoy the thoughtful critique and advice people will give you.
I didn't understand why Q3DM17 had to be turned into a bloody CTF map. It doesn't make any sense and is a complete waste of time. I understand that yeah you can duplicate the bases and yeah the idea works but it's worthless. No one can change DM17 because the original is the best.
so this version wasn't but I do have one that is very similar (not hard since id gave it away) mine has completly different textures and fps in the 100fps range
I go with the other guys. When I saw the posts I can't figure why I downloaded it at all. I can't understand what you were thinking when you made this map. With bots it's easy like hell to get the flag, and you win the game after 2-3 minutes. Made a better map 'til next time huh?!