When the monarch dies, the heir becomes the next monarch, but their spouse and other children get demoted to dame/knight. Shouldn't they keep their titles?
Edit By crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title
Hello,
This is currently functioning as designed. Please feel free to provide your feedback on this design choice here if you'd like.
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It's completely stopped me from playing at the moment until I can find a work around or hopefully a mod fixes it. Such a weird design choice.
Can you pass along this feedback to the team?
I posted about it on twitter and it's getting a lot of attention. Over 3k likes now. Seems like a lot of people are upset by this decision. Title's shouldn't be removed when a family member dies, that's not how it works historically or in modern royalty. The spouse of the Queen or King becomes a Dowager, the heir ascends to King or Queen, and their siblings stay princes or princesses.
https://x.com/LuckyLunayre/status/2024665599343755548
EA is an American company, it's like making a slob plan a grand ball 😭
We need the option to grant 'cosmetic' titles as well.. ie. titles that are visible and denote someone as an aristocrat but without the holder being in the noble career
Oh and one more thing.. siblings/parents should be able to inherit titles as well, why is it only spouses and children? When it comes to EA's new masters, the Saudis, up until recently, their succession passed from brother to brother.
There have been instances in history where the mother/father was not the monarch in their own right but succeeded to their child's throne due to exceptional circumstances.
Hi there, I've noticed an issue with the new expansion pack. Basically, when my sim dies, all his children except for his heir lose their titles, making them civilians after growing up royals. Is this a known bug? Furthermore, Titles in different worlds keep resetting. For example, I made it so the title associated with level 10 would be Emperor in Oasis Springs, and Grand Duke in Newcrest. However, when I changed it to "Chief" in Chestnut Ridge, both titles in Oasis Springs and Newcrest reverted back to the basic "king" title.
I have became frustrated with both of these points as well. To “fix” the issue I tried to make only one noble family per world, then change all of the titles to the same. So Willow Creek always has a Duke/Duchess, Forgotten Hollow an Earl/Countess, Glimmerbrook always has a Supreme, Sulani always has a Chief, etc. By putting the lowest title as what the child would be called I can put them in noble career, and make the second lowest title a Dowager title for the spouse of the former noble. However, this still would require me to place all of them in the noble career, which I’m fine with if I don’t intend to play the non-heirs actively. However, the titles resetting every time I swap neighborhoods is extremely frustrating because it ruins my attempts to rectify this mess.
As for those that I don’t want in the career I have stuck to editing their names in create a sim like I used to with my nobility before having this pack. Only downside any Princess can only have a 5 letter name. Any former Marchioness can only have a 2 letter name.
This title system is a total joke. Especially because so much effort is required to make it reflect how it would really be. Majorly disappointed. This pack should have never been released if the Sims team doesn’t understand how actual titles work.
I'd love to know whether they consulted people who have some knowledge about how aristocracy and royalty both function in the real world.
I had an issue with this since day 1. It's beyond me how they thought this was a good design choice for nobility to work in game. IT. MAKES. NO. SENSE. They have to fix asap. Hope a mod comes out to fix it tho.....
