Castle, Palace, Manor or what?
If you play royals and/or high nobility houses, your sims probably reside in spacious conditions. Such big houses often hold history and traditions, and they most likely have a proper name to reflect...
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My sims haven't named their palace yet, but my sims are third estate/anti-royalty/nouveau riche/bourgeois/whatever. The founder of my legacy was previously in politics and he had Myshuno Meadows (the big park in San Myshuno) modified and rezoned into a residential lot where he built a baroque-inspired palace. He's very much into gold and ostentatious shows of wealth, but he's not into being unpopular or guillotined >:) so he doesn't call himself a noble or royal (at least not yet). They also don't have a coat of arms or anything, but I feel like these are things that could be potentially made overtime. But it seems like my sims have more stereotypical Asian? traditions when it comes to that kind of thing -- they're very historically inaccurate and global. :D
https://i.imgur.com/xuhfEWo.jpg
It doesn't have a proper name, but "Fier Palace" is what it's sometimes called. His children think of it as "our house in San Myshuno" to avoid making a fuss about it and to distinguish it from their home in Windenburg and their new home that's being built in Mt. Komorebi. They try to keep the rooms of the palace intimate and small.
https://i.imgur.com/vasgmeL.jpg
Private ceremonial room in their second home.
https://i.imgur.com/pH2mxeb.jpg
Also, manor = house. It's like the main house on an estate (which is all the land and everything). "Manor" is like "mansion" - it's a similar root. But now the words basically mean the same thing.
@Simmerville I think "chateau" is fine. It's not an English word, so it's not exactly a "castle." Some chateau look like stereotypical castles and others like Versailles are called palaces in English.
https://i.imgur.com/xuhfEWo.jpg
It doesn't have a proper name, but "Fier Palace" is what it's sometimes called. His children think of it as "our house in San Myshuno" to avoid making a fuss about it and to distinguish it from their home in Windenburg and their new home that's being built in Mt. Komorebi. They try to keep the rooms of the palace intimate and small.
https://i.imgur.com/vasgmeL.jpg
Private ceremonial room in their second home.
https://i.imgur.com/pH2mxeb.jpg
Also, manor = house. It's like the main house on an estate (which is all the land and everything). "Manor" is like "mansion" - it's a similar root. But now the words basically mean the same thing.
I named it "Chateau" (castle) before I was aware of the differences between a castle and a palace, but as castles normally have a big park (a palace will normally have a smaller garden), and Chateau Cavalier does indeed have the biggest and most impressive formal greenery arrangement in my entire region, so I think it might just about fit the bill. Its location is rural, too, at Cavalier Cove in Brindleton Bay.
@Simmerville I think "chateau" is fine. It's not an English word, so it's not exactly a "castle." Some chateau look like stereotypical castles and others like Versailles are called palaces in English.
