hi guys
i want to play some quakelive maps with my old quake 3.
but it seems the compiling method has changed for quakelive. (pk3 files too etc)
my idea was to decompile quakelive maps with q3map2 and to “make” them loadable for quake 3 (on a non public base!).
and later i was wondering how it can be possible to make some maps for quakelive from scratch?!
i am thankfull for every answer 
best regards,
bunnyb
Quake Live PK3 files are locked and encrypted, so you can’t modify them. It is not possible to use them with Quake3Arena.
id Software did mention that a public SDK will be released sometime in the future (game is still in public beta, so it won’t be a while yet). That said, you should be able to create maps for Q3A and “port” them over to QL, the fundamentals are going to be the same.
I thought ET:QW’s open beta files were also protected. The actual game isn’t, so just wait until there is an official release.