I've been taking advantage of the GW holiday to dig into the DarkRadiant and work on my second Dark Mod map. This outing is going to be a lot more ambitious than the first, but based on the progress I've made so far against the total map, this might actually take six months to a year to actually finish >_<
Going from a couple of buildings on a single street to multiple buildings over several city blocks was quite a jump, but it's honestly not more difficult, just more tedious. Having to lay out, decorate, and populate just one building takes ages. I can see why most FM makers release 2 or 3 major words over the course of a decade now.