Heh, I love to see people so fired up about mapping for this awsome game Hammer is fairly easy to learn once you get the hang of it, there's just a lot of stuff to figure out. As for ideas and such, you should put those in our main discussion forum; http://forums.tf2maps.net/forumdisplay.php?f=5 Welcome to the group m8!
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