Welcome to the official Paradox Interactive forums!

At Paradox Interactive, we believe that candid conversations between our players and with our teams are crucial for making great games. To that effect, we strive to foster open and constructive discussions around the games we love to make and play, and we hope you will respectfully share your thoughts with other players and with our teams.

To help us maintain an environment for active and productive discussions, please keep your posts constructive, avoid personal attacks, and stay on-topic. Be excellent to each other!

In addition to the forums, this Code of Conduct applies to all official Paradox community platforms. It also serves as a reference for related Paradox spaces and any other services offered by Paradox.

Thank you for your support and collaboration in making our communities both vibrant and polite!

Code of Conduct

To simplify things, the Code of Conduct can be summarized into the following points. More information and details regarding each point (as well as our expectations) can be found below.

• English Only
• Keep it Legal
• Be Respectful
• Respect Etiquette

English Only

Our staff and our community come from all around the world, but English is our shared language. In order to allow as many people as possible to participate in the conversations on our platforms, we ask that you keep your messages limited to English.

This does not apply to our specific non-English Boards.

Keep it Legal

Illegal activities are strictly prohibited in our forums and all other Paradox Interactive spaces. Examples of prohibited content include, but are not limited to:

• Threats or incitement of violence
• Violations of privacy (e.g., sharing personal information)
• Encouraging others to break the law
• Incitement of terrorism or crimes
• Agitation against an ethnic group
• Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
• Unlawful depictions of violence
• Copyright infringement
• Cheats, hacks, Trojan horses, or malicious programs
• Unreleased content / hacked data files

Be Respectful

Our goal is to maintain an open and welcoming environment where discussions can flow freely. To ensure that discussions remain as constructive as possible, the following behaviors and content are not permitted:

• Extreme sexuality, violence, or content otherwise unsuitable for family or office environment
• Inflammatory messages deliberately intended to provoke others
• Harassment, personal attacks, or insults towards others
• Making false claims to Paradox staff and moderators
• Nazi symbolism, propaganda, or Holocaust denial
• Impersonating other community members or Paradox staff
• Naming and shaming
• Excessive or explicit profanity
• Offensive usernames and profiles
• Modern political topics when discussing our games

Respect Etiquette

Paradox staff and the Moderation team are doing their best to keep our spaces civil and orderly. In order to maintain this order, we expect all users to follow the following etiquette:

Repeatedly posting the same post or topic in a forum, or across multiple forums, is considered spamming. Such posts will be locked, edited, or removed. Intentional off-topic or nonsense posting is also likely to be considered spam and will receive the same treatment. This applies to both written text and image posting which also includes memes. If you think of something else you want to add to the thread, please use the Edit button rather than making multiple posts in a row as this may also be seen as spamming, whether intentional or not.

Tip: You can search the topic you want to discuss in the “search in forums” bar (top of the forum) to make sure it wasn’t already addressed recently.

This includes:

• Creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forums
• Causing disturbances in forum threads such as picking fights, making off-topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters
• Making posts designed to or likely to get inappropriate responses

Final decisions on what is trolling will be at the discretion of the forum staff, who will generally give users the benefit of the doubt.

When posting in a thread, please make sure that the thread is relevant to your query/issue, and that you would not be derailing the existing topic by replying. When creating a thread of your own, be sure to post in the right forum for the game in question, and take the time to search for an existing/appropriate thread before doing so. Threads that are off-topic, or become so, may be moved or locked.

Tip: We have Fun Forums, including an Off-Topic forum, if you would like to discuss something outside of the box.

Making short posts made with the sole intention of keeping a topic near the top of the board is called “bumping”. This clutters the forums unnecessarily, and causes active threads to be moved down the page. As such, bumping is not allowed, and posts in this vein will be removed. Where possible, please avoid posting in threads that are reasonably old (6+ months) as they are likely to be outdated and/or irrelevant, especially when reporting a bug.

Do not post polls without a moderator’s permission. If you want to start a poll in one of our sub-forums, please reach out to the Forum Manager or a Community staff member to present your request. Paradox reserves the right to decline any request.

Paradox’s forums are the property of Paradox Interactive. We do not allow calls for boycotts and petitions to be shared on our platform.

Any post with the intention to sell, buy, or trade products or services, links to auctions, affiliate links, links to promote personal or commercial websites, blogs, personal social media channels and other forums is not allowed without the express permission of Paradox.

Do not publicly discuss moderation, warnings or bans. These are not a topic for public discussion, and should not be contested in a public thread. If you have a serious issue to raise with moderation actions taken against you or in general, please contact the Forum Managers. If you were banned from the forums and are not able to contact the moderation team, you can appeal the sanction by reaching out to this email: admin@paradoxinteractive.com.

Know that our moderators are expected to be forgiving of minor transgressions, and to allow a lot of room for freedom of expression and opinions.

Do not abuse the forum’s formatting options such as using mostly capslock, spamming emojis, Pyramid Quoting, etc.

Your Signature should:

• be composed of the default font size, default colour and should be ten (10) lines maximum (including lines or spaces)
• conform to the normal Forum Rules regarding content
• NOT include ASCII made images

• Bypassing the Forum’s security measures (or helping others to do so)
• Creating multiple accounts
• Real Money Trading (RMT)
• Account trading

Constructive Posts and Attitude

We welcome and encourage feedback on all our platforms, regardless of sentiment, and we see it as a valuable part of our communities.

It is always good to know when our players are happy with our games, but criticism can also be very useful for us to further improve your gaming experience... if it is presented in a civil and constructive manner.

It is also possible to report bugs and issues encountered in-game. Depending on the platform and game, users should share their bug reports in the dedicated section or using the appropriate form.

Staff & Moderation Tags

Employees of Paradox. This tag is not tied to any specific role.

Paradox employees that manage the official forums.

Assist the Community Team in making players’ voices heard and share information from their respective games. They help report back community feedback, suggestions, issues, and concerns on all our titles.

Paradox Interactive employees (or external employees) that work in one way or another on your favourite games. They take on their work time to be present in the forums, listen to the community and answer questions when they can. QA staff are particularly active in the dedicated “Open Beta” and “Bug Report” sub-forums/servers where they collect players' issues to inform the development teams.

Volunteer helpers from the community. They give their time and passion to ensure the day-to-day running of the game forum/server, making sure the rules and this Community Code of Conduct are respected while helping the community where possible.

Legal information

Using the forums requires you to create a Paradox Account, which in turn requires you to accept Paradox’s User Agreement. This Community Code of Conduct is an integral part of the User Agreement, which for example means that a breach of this Code is the same as a breach of the User Agreement, with the same possible consequences.

We further recommend you to read Paradox’s Privacy Policy which contains important information on Paradox’s practices in relation to the collection, use, storage and other processing of your Personal Information.