Overview
Titles are a new mechanic in the Royalty DLC. They allow the bearer to use Psychic amplifiers and Psycasts without upsetting the Empire, in exchange the bearer has an increasing number of demands to maintain their mood.
Overview
All titles, starting at Yeoman, allow an increasing level of psycast. Yeoman allows level 1, Esquire level 2, Knight level 3, Praetor level 4, Baron level 5, and Count and above level 6. All titles allow the consumption of Lavish meals, insect jelly, milk, berries, ambrosia, chocolate, beer, go-juice, luciferium, penoxycyline, flake, psychite tea, yayo, smokeleaf joint, and wake-up. Certain titles will allow the consumption of ‘simpler’ meals, these are noted below.
All titles, starting at Esquire, require psycaster apparel as well as any powered armor. Titles of this and higher level also require other specific apparel choices that are listed below. Titles of Esquire and above also require a throne room, and have minimum requirements for bedrooms. These requirements include a minimum number of tiles of room area, and in many cases, a minimum impressiveness. All throne rooms require 2 braziers which must be lit. All bedrooms require a double bed. All throne and bed rooms must be fully floored (IE no soil/ground)
Some titles come with recreation limits. These, and other limits, generally remain and grow from rank to rank, such that a Baron has all the limits placed on a Praetor, and more.
Starting at Esquire, Nobles gain the ability to call in temporary reinforcements, with additional, more powerful forces being made available at Praetor and Baron. These abilities can be used for free every 45 days, or can be used before the cooldown finishes by expending Royal Favor with the Empire. Each ability calls four fully equipped pawns of the relevant type.
Heirs are automatically assigned with additional weight to spouses. Can be changed by using a Comms console and perfoming a ritual. Should a noble die and be resurrected, the heir keeps the title. Titles can be renounced.
Issue quests with no reward, increasingly negative moodlet if unfullfilled, positve moodlet +6 if fullfilled.
Dying, being kidnapped, or renoucing a title ends any current decrees as of 1.1.2579.
Titled pawns with the Greedy or Jealous traits become Conceited after gaining Titles, and would refuse to do certain types of work as they rise up the ranks.
Titled pawns without those traits can continue to do all types of work they used to be able to even after gaining higher titles.
- Esquire: An Esquire no longer clean, and will demand the following: Ruffle Shirt, and a Top hat or Ladies hat. An Esquire’s throne room must be 24 tiles (or more), with no minimum impressiveness. An Esquire’s bedroom must be 16 tiles. Esquires may consume Fine meals, Package Survival Meals, Simple Meals, and Pemmican. Esquires gain the ability to call a trooper squad.
- Knight / Dame: A Knight (or Dame) will no longer do any Dumb labor, and will demand the following: Ruffle Shirt, and a Top hat or Ladies hat. A Knight’s throne room must be 30 tiles, with a minimum impressiveness of 60, and must include 2 Columns and a Harp. A Knight’s bedroom must be 24 tiles, with a minimum impressiveness of 40, and must include an end table and dresser. Knights may consume Fine meals. Knights will demand High Culture recreation, and, gain the ability to trade with both settlements and caravans.
- Praetor: A Praetor will no longer do any plantwork or mining (in addition to restrictions of lower levels, IE no dumb labor), and will demand the following: Ruffle Shirt, and a Top hat or Ladies hat. All apparel must be or normal or higher quality. A Praetor’s throne room must be 40 tiles, with a minimum impressiveness of 90, and must include 4 Columns and a Harp. A Praetor’s bedroom must be 24 tiles, with a minimum impressiveness of 50, and must include an end table and dresser. Praetors may consume Fine meals. Praetor’s may call the Janissary squad, and will refuse any dexterity play recreation, as well as have the same limits present in lower ranks (a demand for high culture recreation)
- Baron / Baroness: A Baron will no longer do any skilled labor or animal work, and will demand the following: Ruffle Shirt, a Royal Vest (male) or Corset (female), and a Coronet. A Baron’s throne room must have only fine floors, must have a grand throne, must be 60 tiles, with a minimum impressiveness of 120, and must include 4 Columns and a Harpsichord. A Baron’s bedroom must be 24 tiles, with a minimum impressiveness of 50, and must include an end table and dresser. Barons gain the ability to trade with imperial orbital traders, and may call cataphract squads. Barons will gain a free psycast amplifier via a transport pod on promotion.
- Count / Countess: A Count will no longer do any commoner work whatsoever, and will demand the following: Ruffle Shirt, a Royal Vest (male) or Corset (female), a royal robe, and a Coronet. A Count’s throne room must have only fine floors, must have a grand throne, must be 80 tiles, with a minimum impressiveness of 160, and must include 6 Columns, 2 Drapes, and a Piano. A Count’s bedroom must be 30 tiles, with a minimum impressiveness of 80, and must include a drape, end table and dresser. Counts will gain a free psycast amplifier via a transport pod on promotion.
Ascetic pawns
Ascetic pawns have their unique bedroom and food requirements completely override those of their title, and thus still prefer an awful bedroom and raw or simple food. Moreover, Throne Room requirements (braziers, drapes, instruments, size, flooring) do not need to be satisfied. Keep in mind that they do need a throne room to satisfy their need for Authority (No authority results in a -18 moodlet), and based on the Impressiveness of the room they may get a negative moodlet (-6 for awful, -2 for dull (with the moodlet “mediocre throne room”, possibly a bug)) if the room is less than Mediocre. In practice this means that an Ascetic Count/Countess (or any title) may be kept happy with raw food, a 1×2 awful bedroom, and a 3×3 smooth stone throne room with a normal throne and a light source. Do also note that having a throne room that meets or exceeds the requirements and is sufficiently impressive can result in a positive moodlet, which may be useful but is a very expensive way to get a mood bonus. Similarly Cannibal Nobles can eat human meat without penalty, and still gain the normal positive moodlets from doing so. It is currently unknown if Simple Meals with Human Meat are allowed. Lastly, Nudists are not exempt from the need to wear Noble-specific clothing, and still take the penalty from wearing any clothes at all. This results in a Nudist Noble always having a negative moodlet of some kind. A Circadian half-cycler does not negate the need for a bedroom. Couples containing one or more nobles can still share a bedroom, and should they both be nobles they can also share a throne room, however they need individual thrones and the title’s usual requirements must still be met.
Obtainable Titles
Do NOT make a very important pawn too high of a rank as it might cause your colony to run into issues,
Make sure you also have the materials/food/room requirements for the nobles that you are promoting yourself or having from quests as they will quickly have mental breaks and tantrums.
NPC Titles
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