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Post by Zatriarch Maximillideus »

Hello All,
I'd like to speak about something which Scott tried to implement but was never fully followed- map standards.
In other words, our standards of maps, how members adhere to our rules, and how and where members claim.
First of all, one of these factors is tactical claiming. Ever since nations left to the GSO, it has very rarely been happening. Nations have just been drawn with straight borders, just encompassing random islands and bays for the hell of it and giving why they claim where they do absoloutely no thought. Imagine for a moment a nation- let's call it Nonexistentstan.
Nonexistentstan claims a piece of land on the Southern Coast of Benacia, between Shireroth and Numenor. But how does it do this? Its leader draws a straight line from one nation to another and claims everything South of it.
This should not be how claims work!
Nonexistentstan should instead look at the resources map, have a look through potential neighbours' fora, look at impending expansions and other factors and then draw an interesting looking border with a point to it- another thing to remember is that some claims just look boring- there's no inspiration to make them look like nations on Earth, with interesting looking borders, enclaves etc.
Secondly, Scott mentioned fonts on the map. Please, please please only use Times New Roman, size 8- not boldened, not italicised. And don't use colours like flourescent yellow unless you really have to.
Using foreign scripts is also not really acceptable in an Anglophone micronational cartography society- though a few extra characters in the Latin Alphabet would be fine, such as Craitland and Interland have.
As Scott so rightly said, on one of the last maps, the word 'testicle' appeared twice. That's not really appropriate- please try to keep zany town names to a modicum of decency.
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the word "testicle" isn't on there now max, CIS moved round and beaguim left.
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Hear! Hear!

well done Max, using your initiative...

ps. when we first claimed, we just wanted somewhere to call home, rather than using any resouces - hence our claim of three insignificant isles
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Well, Craitman, your nation's claim is far more detailed and actually shows direct involvement with the society rather than these blank, dull looking claims- to all of you, I say- remember, the more interesting you make your nation look on the map, the more citizens and interest from outside you're likely to get ;)
well done Max, using your initiative...
Sorry, is this a compliment or something else?

I've also just now seen that one of Novatainia's cities is called Treblinka.
I don't know if that's appropriate or not- after all, I doubt anyone would be too happy having an Auschwitz on the MCS map, so why must we have a Treblinka?[/quote]
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Zatriarch Maximillideus wrote:
well done Max, using your initiative...
Sorry, is this a compliment or something else?
that was a compliment, it's just that no-one's put up standards of our valued map before...
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Auschwitz is a popular tourist destination if you don't like it stop people going there... just like the twin towers site is a popular destination and i even mean for people who are unrelated to victims from either of these....
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Max its up to people to have what names they want. If you remember we had a conversation on this...
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...and we had a similar debate in which he tried to ban concentration camps from all micronations...
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then he banishes omists to them?
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A) He did what you refer to ages before that b) I'm pretty sure he just banned Omism, didn't hear anything about concentration camps.
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he was out to get some christians in the war.
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woodrow put us in concentration camps but was so bad at spelling...
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...and we had a similar debate in which he tried to ban concentration camps from all micronations...
Well, I can't even see why you don't have a problem with this, frankly.
And Pete, as I've said many times before, although we may be merely providing a service for micronationalists to use, we're a professional one and therefore need to maintain some decorum.
For example, many forum hosting services merely provide a service in the form of an online forum, but they ask for some terms and conditions to be followed.
So we may not be in any position to change member nations' city names, but we've every right to request that ones with somewhat unsavoury names be removed from the map.
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I have to say that as another member of the Administration as well as just a claimer in general, I do support this measure.

It has been a prime worry of mine as of late that just such happenings have only served to undermine the niceties and crisp look of the map itself. I believe that it is for the benefit of the map itself that such regulations be followed.

I also do believe that as members of the MCS we should do ourselves a favor and ensure that we do diversify our claims to look something like they have a semblence of culture in them. Do realise Comrades, that as members of a Cartography Society that claims are much more then just having a spot on the MCS map to call your own. They can help any nation out immensely. Every single square inch of your claim should be filled with the history of your nation, and every little bit should be written down and kept in your nation, to allow future citizens to marvel over, to read, and to develop their own alternatives to, as well as expand upon them. It is only to the benefit of any Micronation and to Micronationalism itself that such things are done.

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i agree with all that but i don't agree with max not wanting a place called treblinka on the map... people would be allowed new york even after 9/11 people would be allowed virginia after the recent events... one disaster doesn't merit the complete bannage of the word.
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not that anyone would want to have New York in their MN
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they could have new new york
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dr-spangle wrote:new new york
but's that already been done in Futurama and Doctor Who*

(*not Hieu) :lol:
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it wasn're new new york in doctor who, listen carefully and you'ld have seen it's actually:
new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new york.
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it is indeed Spangle, but i'm sure they refer to New New York before going into the mass of News :lol:
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you gave doctor who as an example nof an appearance of new new york but it was incorrect.
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it appeared in the script and was mentioned on BBC Television
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if someone says new new york but nothing more of it then it doesn't make them assosiated with it.
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seeing as we're having a conversation with it, i feel close to it already...
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