You are crazy if you are still working on a Quake 3 mod.
I've been reading the threads in this section and it appears to be a tie between Q3 and UT2k4.
I think you should all start working on a mod for Doom 3 rather than Quake 3 because Doom 3 is id Software's next generation engine. Q3 is now at least 5 years old and very tired.

Even though Epic Games is competing with id Software I think the best chance of success is with the Doom 3 engine rather than UT2k4. It's much more powerful... and to me it appears that Unreal II was the last Unreal game to have Single Player.

These are my thoughts... I'd like to hear yours.

~Conk