1. How to make an MCS claim Stage One: Firstly you should ask yourself the following questions: 1)Is your nation more than 3 moths old? If yes proceed to the second question, if not reapply when your nation is. 2)Does your nation have a forum where at least one person posts on a weekly basis? If not get one and do so before claiming. If the answer to both of the above questions is yes, then you may continue to the next stage. Stage Two: Visit http://micras.org/ and click on “Maps” tab. Then click on “political map (Claims Version)”http://micras.org/ Stage Three: When the map comes up you should scroll through the map and look for a piece of land you like the look of, when this is done push the “Prt Sc” or Print Screen button on your keyboard when the desired land is within view. Then proceed to Microsoft Paint and click paste, this will bring up an image of the map in Paint. Stage Four: Using the “Select” tool select and copy the part of the image which contains the land you wish to claim. An example of the result is shown below. Stage Five: Click the “Brush” tool and select the smallest size of brush. Select the colour black and proceed to the next stage.

2. How to make an MCS claim Stage Seven: Using the Brush tool draw a line along the land borders of the land you wish to claim, this is not necessary for the coast. See the example below. Stage Eight: Click the fill tool and select a colour which isn’t already used by a nation on the map, then fill the land which you wish to claim. See the Example below: Stage Nine: Now return to the map and print screen and paste the key from the bottom right hand corner into a new Microsoft Paint file. You should then select and copy the “Country Capital” symbol and paste it onto your claim. Then using the “Text” tool in “Times New Roman” font, size 8 in the colour red name your capital city. An example of this can be seen on the next slide.

3. How to make an MCS claim Stage Ten: If you wish you may now use the other items in the key to fill up the vast empty spaces in your claim, and example of this is below. (Any other towns are in the same font as the capital.) Stage Eleven: Now save your map, where it says “Save as Type” scroll down to PNG and save it in that format. Stage Twelve : Visit an image hosting website such as http://tinypic.com and upload your image, when this is done include the image URL in your claim in addition to the other required information in the new claims form: and you’re done!http://tinypic.com