Hey. Nice map. Hope it turns out good. What struck me first was how it was just in a big hollowed out cube. I'll take a look at it further later after dinner 
but for now thats my only suggestion.
Delete that skybox ->
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and put in something like this ->
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Have the skybox made of multiple brushes that hug the edges of your map's geometry like sealing it shut. That's the best way I can describe it. I hope the picture illustrates it better. It'll help vvis alot I hope.
I wasn't going to suggest the skybox thing because on first view it looked like an RP map because it was so open but now after re-reading it I realise its a single player map. Try and make some map geometry occlude other parts of the map. Unless you do this it wont matter a damn if you have hint brushes because the engine will render most of the map anyway because its visible anyway.
Also func_areaportals are your friend. I myself never got them working but thats because Im lazy and not because they dont work. They're especially good in single player maps but I've seen them work in multiplayer (cs_assault for CS:S comes to mind). I can't find a tutorial at the moment but do a google search and see what you find.
Good luck with the map.
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