Beware. If you get permaban on Paradox account you can't use mods.

[Mazisky]

Just looked at the modding FAQs, I think this is pretty important to know.


If you get permaban on Paradox account you can't use mods on the main platform anymore and you are doomed with a modless game.

The only way you could get mods then is by external tools but some modders already said they won't support other platforms.

In a game where mods are extremely central to the experience, I think it is not a good choice to lock mod usage behind forum bans.

[Simon]

So creating a new forum account and linking that to Steam instead won’t work?

From what I’ve heard, I don’t trust moderators at Paradox to implement bans fairly, with restraint and fair warning. I simply won’t use their forums at all.

[AoD_lexandro]

This is false information.

You cannot use Paradox Hosted mods if your paradox account is banned. That is all. People are still free to use any and all mods they want from the internet.

[Mazisky]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

This is false information.

You cannot use Paradox Hosted mods if your paradox account is banned. That is all. People are still free to use any and all mods they want from the internet.

Mod makers are already saying they won't support thunderstore and other platforms now that Paradox mods is released.

How you would get the mods then?

[Simon]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

This is false information.

You cannot use Paradox Hosted mods if your paradox account is banned. That is all. People are still free to use any and all mods they want from the internet.

This is a strangely defensive interpretation, even if technically accurate. it’s expected and they want Paradox Mods to become the largest and primary repository for mods. Non-sanctioned mods have only arisen due to the (as yet) lack of an official modding platform. It is yet one more aspect of control that people should be aware of.

Not that I encourage potentially ban-worthy behaviour on forums. I don’t. But as I said earlier I personally can’t and won’t trust Paradox as judge, jury and executioner!

[AoD_lexandro]

Originally posted by Mazisky:

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

This is false information.

You cannot use Paradox Hosted mods if your paradox account is banned. That is all. People are still free to use any and all mods they want from the internet.

Mod makers are already saying they won't support thunderstore and other platforms now that Paradox mods is released.

How you would get the mods then?

What a handful of modders say does not mean everyone of us in in lock step with one another. Others have already released mods outwith paradox hosted content. And many will continue to do so irrespective of what CO want or sanction. This is how modding is and always has been. Just because CO are making a central location to host mods does not automatically mean its the only access to them.

And I am speaking my modder hat on. I know most people would likely release anything to paradox hosting but I know just as many modders who wont simply down to terms of service requirements.

[Knight Hospitaller]

So, they are taken captive, must not talk ill of Big Brother or they will be UnModded.

[Major PolySci]

can CO get any more stupid! this whole series is dead to me!

[Mazisky]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Originally posted by Mazisky:

Mod makers are already saying they won't support thunderstore and other platforms now that Paradox mods is released.

How you would get the mods then?

What a handful of modders say does not mean everyone of us in in lock step with one another. Others have already released mods outwith paradox hosted content. And many will continue to do so irrespective of what CO want or sanction. This is how modding is and always has been. Just because CO are making a central location to host mods does not automatically mean its the only access to them.

And I am speaking my modder hat on. I know most people would likely release anything to paradox hosting but I know just as many modders who wont simply down to terms of service requirements.

Yet some modders said they don't intend support other platforms for praticse reason and they will only use Paradox mods.

So, the information given in this thread is still pretty important and game-changing and people need to know that.

For honesty and clarity, I edited the main topic specifying Paradox mod platform.

[Schwift Master]

Good looking out man. Thanks for the heads up.

[Zero, Dark Knight]

One more reason to not buy, luckily that's a problem for people like myself, a majority of this forum already purchased, all you have to do is keep your noses clean

[DarkMerl]

Originally posted by Major PolySci:

can CO get any more stupid! this whole series is dead to me!

there is a BIG difference from CO and Paradox, with this forum stuff, it is all Paradox. Paradox has tunnel vision and is only looking at the bottom line, they want more sales for their share holders, imho it seems like, CO is trying their best to meet the demands of Paradox.

[Toenails10]

Here's the lesson then,.. Don't be an asshat on forums.
show a little respect to other people, easy

[Harlequin]

The way PX and CO are behaving lately makes me think that a lot of modders will their mods upload to PX at the beginning but after a couple of months there will be the first news with unethical or immoral behaviour on the part of PX and/or CO and modders will switch back to the usual mod platforms.

[SumGumption]

Originally posted by Harlequin:

The way PX and CO are behaving lately makes me think that a lot of modders will their mods upload to PX at the beginning but after a couple of months there will be the first news with unethical or immoral behaviour on the part of PX and/or CO and modders will switch back to the usual mod platforms.

The trap could be in a UL. (Sign the UL and it could be locked forever in PX and CO hands to do with as they wish.) A contract is just trash till you agree by signing it. These other platforms aren’t tied to any specific games. There’s no benefit to them to take the mods nor to prevent modders from being exposed to the general public.

[JimmysTheBestCop]

Paradox owns all the mods and can do what ever it wants even using it in base game with 0 compensation. Read the fine print. It's insane.

Literally wouldn't trust any modder who beta testing and helping Co and Pdox launch it. Smells like paid shills just like those YouTubers.

The entire pdox mod agreement goes against the entire concept of community based mods.