Approved: Associate Membership | Republic of Norston

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COLOR CODING:

Green means you have completed this to a good standard and no improvements are required to progress
Orange means you have completed this to a reasonable standard but this will need to be improved on if you become an associate member. (in other words, this must turn green before applying for member state)
Red means this has been completed to a poor standard and will need to be improved before your application can progress
Bolded black means that this has not been included in your application and therefore you will need to provide evidence before your application can progress. In the secondary list, you will only have to provide evidence if you have not provided four other greens/oranges.


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS - All must be green

A minimum of ten in-game pictures of your nation
A unique and realistic flag of your nation
A unique and realistic coat of arms for your nation
A map of your nation's location that does not overlap with an existing AIN nation and is realistic to your CJ style
A type of government that again matches your CJ style
A realistic size and population of your nation
No in-game UI
A reasonable ratio of custom content to maxis provided content (50/50 minimum), as that there is little repetition and a constant style of architecture
A detailed and realistic context (history) for your nation - Seems a bit far-fetched. Needs to be tightened up a bit.
The Network Addon Mod (NAM)

SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS - At least 4 must be green

A custom terrain mod
Previous, positive and active contribution to the AIN
Attention to detail
A custom water mod
A decent amount of realism (no airports ending with a mountain or skyscrapers in the middle of a small town)
Regular updates and commitment to an external city journal (on either Simtropolis, SC4Devotion, SimPeg or Simsports, links required)
Active participation in a previous union (links required)[/b]
Have hosted a community event (must have been on a previous union or a site such as Simtropolis, SC4Devotion or Simsports, links required)
Realistic transport network appropriate to your city style and location (maps or pictures should be provided)
Custom Trees
Decent attempt at custom BATs/lots (pictures required)


COMMENTS:

I like it as an associate application. In terms of population, it's fine, and the main improvement I would suggest at this stage to get you up to Member State quality is more diverse images. But regardless of this, I can now declare voting OPEN.

Thank you

Yes from me.

I, the Ministress of Culture, Arts and Sport, have voted! My will be done!

Yes Do you have Skype?

Yes, I do

Post me a PM with a link, i will add you to me and if you want and apply to the official ain skype.

Yes from me, but there are a few things that you should consider in improving like:

-You should consider in making an open big space in that city because large cities need some space to breath and a big square with channels or a big park like in New York made it very different;

-I just saw pics of an only city, it would be nice if you post more pics about other places in the country.

Overall: Yes but you should improve it!

Be free to make me some question or if want help in anything PM me!

Oh, I am glad to Norston to become a AIN member.

Awesome application my friend! Glad you choose us.

Very good start!

I would suggest maybe filling in some of those spaces between buildings with something. It just seems that your city there is a little empty.

Also, depending on which kind of cities you're modeling your cities after, you should follow certain cues.

For example, if you're making:

--North American cities, I would suggest clustering some towers, while gradually downsizing the size of the buildings as you digress from the downtown. Also, as Miguel said, you should place some parks and plazas intermingling with the buildings as you move out from the downtown.

Once you get farther outside the downtown, construct urban residential neighborhoods and suburbs, eventually leading to country towns and farmland.

Cities to observe/model: Seattle, Chicago, Little Rock, Los Angeles


--European (UK) Cities: Tons of W2W, with a church and town hall at the center of the downtown area. Usually, a CBD is different than the downtown, unlike North American cities. CBD would have modern mid rise and high rises in a tight area, otherwise only a handful spread out over the entire city.

Cities to observe/model: London, Glasgow, Brussels, Hamburg

Thanks for the tips! All of them will be put to great use!

2 more votes

Actually, it's four. We currently have 23 members, so 12 is a simple majority. I have no doubt that it will reach it soon.

Almost 12 )))

I'm just gonna call this one. The poll's been up for a few days now and although it hasn't technically reached a majority, it has hit 10 yes votes with 0 no votes. Logic would dictate that it is highly unlikely there would be a sudden run of no votes.

Therefore, the Republic of Norston is hereby admitted to the Alliance of Independent Nations as an Associate Member.

Congratulations and welcome to the AIN!

Omg thank you so much!

No worries! Your CJ is here: http://www.aoin.eu/f157-republic-of-norston

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welcome!

Welcome, man!!

Congratulations and welcome to the AIN.
In the future, when you feel you are ready, you can apply for Member Statehood, which will involve us comparing your current application to your member state application and deciding whether you have improved enough to become a "full" member. I know you're working very hard on your CJ so I'm sure it won't be long until you apply.

Once again, welcome to the AIN!

Welcome!