Victoria 2 - Forum Rules and Why and How to Register your Game

• You will respect the rights of other users to have their own opinions.
• You will not use expressions that are considered foul, vulgar, sexually harassing, racially offensive or in any way discriminatory. These expressions include, but are not limited to, ethnic slurs, hate speech and religious epithets. Whether an expression fits under this definition will be determined by Paradox staff at the time.
• You will not make posts that are inflammatory with the perceived intent to rile people up (i.e. "trolling" and "flaming" are prohibited).
• You will not flood or post on the forums redundant, empty, or nonsensical posts or advertisements as determined by Paradox staff (i.e. no "spamming").

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• As with Victoria, there will not be any kind of "extermination of minorities" or "ethnic cleansing" in Victoria 2. Thus, there is no need to ask about their presence in the game. People who continue to do so will be warned and, if they persist, banned.
• There has been a dramatic increase in the number of threads that are evolving into long-winded, technical historical debates regarding specific political, social or economic events, mostly relating to the Victoria period but more than occasionally involving conditions after the Victoria game-time period. And more than occasionally, these discussions have been turning into personal soapbox diatribes for some posters to grind axes towards either certain historical targets or, worse, against fellow posters who share alternative opinions.
  
  While a bit of historical discussion is going to be expected in a forum like this, I would remind posters that this forum is focused primarily on gameplay, what it will be like, what features will be included, and once the game is released, how gameplay works and strategies for successful gameplay.
  
  Therefore please keep the technical discussion of historical questions, economic theory, social theory and the like for posting on either the Off Topic or History forums in the Fun Forum section of the Paradox Website. This forum should not be seeing dozens of posts debating military strategy of specific generals, or long analayses of economic theory, or massive rehashing of ideological opinions. That is what the fun forums are for, and for the effectiveness of this forum to do its primary task, please use the fun forums for the long debates that have in some ways distracted from the purpose of the Victoria 2 forum.
• Unless it relates to actual gameplay mechanics as planned or implemented in Victoria 2, the discussion regarding whether the current generation of Paradox games have the right balance of historical content vs gameplay flexibility is beyond the scope of this forum and should be taken to a general forum such as the Off Topic forum.
• Threads/posts touching the subject of Israel - Palestine, or anything remotely linked to Arab-Jews relationship are forbidden.