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Map Criteria/ Requirements To Be On The Map

To join the map

• Be a resident of the DSA

• Have an account on our off-site forum

To stay on the map

• Post any kind of In-Character role play at least once a month and somewhere reasonably accessible/public

Specifics about the activity requirement

• It should be In-Character, aka in-universe. Could be from someone's perspective, a news report, organization postings, a tweet, etc. The Ministry of Role Play promotes in-universe narratives over top-down worldbuilding (especially since NS easily provides one for you). However, if you only do top-down worldbuilding, we allow it to meet the requirement if it is at least two paragraphs of content.

• Can be any length. Can be as short as a tweet or as long as a novel. Pretty easy metric.

• If you're about to be removed for inactivity, I'll try and give you a one-week heads up about that. If it happens a 2nd time relatively soon after, I'll give you another heads up. A third time, though? I won't tell you cause you've already been told twice. Gotta start remembering yourself.

• If you're removed for inactivity, you won't be able to reapply to the map for the following 15 days.

Opt-In Here

• You can either let the DoC pick where your nation will be (they base it on you Factbook, your national animal, anything and everything to try and get a good location) or you can upload an image of where you'd like to be.

• By opting-in to our maps, you here by agree to all terms and conditions listed in this dispatch

Expansion

If you would like to request a larger size (an expansion), please telegram the DoC with your new request. If they approve, you will need to opt-in to the map once again so the expansion can be properly documented. Your first expansion is free, however all following expansions will require that you be active in RP as expansions are rewards. What is considered "active" would be a significant amount of RP within a certain time frame prior to the expansion request.

Also, No Long Chile, which means no hogging a continent's coastline. You can start and expand to and along the coast line, but I will not let you take up a significantly large portion of the coast with no inward expansion.Unless you're blocked by a mountain, be cautious only expanding along the coast.

Lastly, we do limit how large nations can be. The limit was larger in the past but had to be reduced so new players could still have desirable locations. The current limit is 500,000 pixels on the map, or 4,961,250 square miles/12,852,450 square km) (smaller than Antarctica)

What Else Can Be Requested? What is Restricted?

• Size of Your Nation
  You may request a specific size for your nation so long as it is below the requirements listed above. You may request a specific location, access to water, landlocked status, etc. so long as it is within reason.
  You're not going to start big. You're gonna be a normal starting size.
  Click Here To See Some Examples
  Realistically, your nation isn't going to start out the size of Russia. What nation ever has?

• Capital City and Major Cities
  You can request I add a city of yours to the map. Just don't do too many, just the biggest ones.

• No Puppets...Kind Of
  Residents may only have 1 NS account tied to the map. However, if you want to have multiple nations on the map, you can request I indicate some of your land to be recognized as another country. I'll include a little indicator underneath the nation name that it belongs to you and you can name the country whatever you like.

• Border-Gore
  Please don't do any. While you can do some (with my permission), perhaps keep it more internal and not be your national border. I consider it cheating the expansion system because it deters anyone from being near you, effectively making surrounding territory yours and that's not fair. I also count Portuguese colonization (tiny trade post claims everywhere) to count because it has the same effects.

• Relocating/Moving Your Nation
  First off, please don't. Extremely rarely would an IRL nation entirely relocate their whole nation. Capitals change, yes, but not an entire country. If you're going to relocate, at least put effort into it and write up some good RP explaining the relocation (and preferably more than just "My people don't like it here anymore" or "Oops, we just nuked the area, gotta go". Nah, that's lazy and you know it.

  But if that's too much, then opt-out of the map and be off for a month before getting back on.

  These next two don't really relate to the above, but are informational none the less

• Distance
  Our world is 25200 miles (or 40555 km) in circumference. The map is 8000 pixels long. This means that each pixel on the map represents around 3.15 miles (5.07 km). The hypotenuse of each pixel is around 4.45 miles (7.12 km).

• International Waters
  International waters start 12 nautical miles off the coast of a claimed territory. If you are using one of our 8000 pixels long maps, that starts 4 pixels horizontally/vertically away from you nation. Other directions depend on your angle.

The cartographers reserve the right to refuse to add or to edit any nation or feature on the regional map. They are a God with unlimited cartography power!

Removal from the Map

• There are a few ways a nation might be removed from the map.
  1) It ceases-to-exist (CTEs, that is when a nation doesn't log in for 28 days and their nation is deleted); OR
  2) It departs the DSA for another region; OR
  3) It requests removal; OR
  4) They don't fulfill the activity requirement

• A nation that has been removed from the map and wishes to be on the map again is treated as a new arrival and must opt-in to the map once again in order to be on there.

  What if I accidentally leave the region?
  It happens. If you accidentally leave and come right back, you don't lose your spot. Although if you're gone for, like, more than a day then yeah you lose your spot

  What if I CTE but refound really quickly?
  You still lose your spot. Your map spot is directly tied to having an NS account and, just like we consider CTEing to be resignation from the DSA Congress, we also consider it resignation from the map.
  In addition, you had an entire month (or two if you put your nation in vacation mode in the settings). A log-in to NS takes less than 30 seconds and you'd only have to do it once a month (or two months). It's a very easy requirement to meet.
  To get back on the map, you will need to opt-in again and will start at starting-size, which means expansions need to be earned back.

  What if if I was REALLY active?
  We make an exception for that. For players who have been actively engaged in DSA RP for a long while and have expanded borders, if they CTE and come back and opt-in before the next map update, they will get their full borders back. If they wait until after the map update, they can only get half their borders. If they wait until the 2nd map update after, though? Doesn't count. That's a full reset.