Heya o'dium. A most welcome post!
As you're probably aware, pretty much all of Q2's maps have been or are in the process of being remade. The exceptions hereof are: Q2DM4 (the lost hallways), and Q2DM6 (the lava tomb). We currently have two Q2DM1's in the pack, and there are indeed hundreds of remakes on that one ;]. Although we'd like to get the set complete sooner or later, neither DM4 nor DM6 were ever really popular (I like the latter myself, though) and I probably wouldn't try and make the lost hallways with a gun to the temple. Match1 isn't remade either, but.. well.. that was rather shoddy..

Perhaps your best bet for something cool & nostalgic would be to find a map that many played on public servers, even though it was 3rd party material.

Looking forward to the result, whatever the subject will be :]

Fragtown.          fragtown.            fragtown.

good 3D type maps with open spaces, insides and outsides of biuldings and an urban theme.

there ws about 8 of these for Q1 and most were converted to Q2, and then to Q3.

There is a 're-make' of one of them at the painkeep site if you have not heard of them, or I could get you the Q1 versions to try out.

Gen needs one of these maps.

originally in Doom?

anything that has lasted so long MUST be in Gen then

You mean the UltraViolence map that Tekhead posted about on the gen Beta Board?

  and yeah, I suppose that is more reason for some of the Fragtown maps to be in Gen, seeing as how they have been around so long and have managed to flow through the, cough, generations.

Downtown, you mean that q3 version of a Doom2 map that Castle did, using the old textures?  I never downloaded that, figured it would be kinda ugly in q3 and I was never really a fan of that map anyway, I liked deathmatching on the Suburbs Doom2 map 16.
There were a lot of cool doom/2 custom dm maps but most of them would just look like crap with todays standards of map making, I think they would still be fun tho.  Of course, if you get a mapper, Reboot for instance, who can look at an old map and add in some cool looking architecture/eye-candy, then you could have a fun old-school map that looks freaking awesome as well.

nah, a smaller version of a 64 player map would be kinda lame, well I suppose someone could pull it off.  I think a remake of one of the 64 player maps would be cool, someday, like if Generations ever got enough players.  I only played a Quake2 dm game 48 players once and that was just deathmatching on a single player map,  one of those factory type levels.  Playing with that many people is fun and I imagine it would be a lot more fun now that I am on DSL and not a slow, old modem like I was using back then.  I think just a tweaked single player Quake2 level could make a good/fun dm level.

I've never played Fact2.  Link?
If you're going to make a map based on a Strogg processing plant, it would be ltra cool to have the marines going to their doom in the back ground.  Maybe Fact2 has this; as I've said, I never played it.

yeah, or you can go into the menu... Multiplayer, start your own server, and then select Fact2 you can play it deathmatch or cooperative.  I played thru that map in SP, Co-Op and deatmatch.  It would be neat to see a level with a bunch of working Strogg machinery.  Would there need to be a new shooter made for bouncing/ejecting body parts?  Great to see what the Strogg call the nursery.

I must be the only guy in the entire forum that has never played Q2.      

Q2 demo is very small...maybye i'll buy Q2 someday.
BTW thanks for saying the differences between VQ2 and Gen