Regnal Numbers

[Mira]

So, I play CK3 in Tribal, 99% of the time, usually not even converting to Feudal, or stopping shortly after 'cause I find the Feudal playstyle to be less fun. And I'd found that, in the past, names with regnal numbers just didn't happen, I could name my heir the same thing over and over again, and there would be no regnal number.

I was doing this just now in a Daura run, and I had Daurama I, followed by Daurama II, and then Daurama III, all manually given regnal numbers. But now, when Daurama III takes the throne, Daurama II becomes Daurama II I and Daurama III becomes Daurama III II. Did I miss something in Lance, or did I just misremember and it has always manually worked?

[The Former]

Yeah so regnal numbers should basically work like...

If you've got Daurama, who has I dunno Tzatak, who has Daurama, who has another Daurama, who has another Tzatak... Your order of leaders will look like this:

Daurama I
Tzatak I
Daurama II
Daurama III
Tzatak II

But it goes by people who've held that title, I believe, and it's only for kingdom or empire titles. So if I'm not mistaken, if you ascended to the kingdom tier and there had already BEEN two leaders named Daurama holding that title before you ever even held it... Your Daurama I would actually become Daurama III.

Likewise, if you move from kingdom to empire, I think the titles would reset. Because now you're going by who all named Daurama has held that empire title specifically.

In other words, IRL, if America conquered Britain and set up its President Elizabeth Whitehouse (hah!) as the new monarch, she'd be called Queen Elizabeth III.

On the same note, interesting fact you may or may not know: Scotland actually wanted Queen Elizabeth to be called Queen Elizabeth II of England and Queen Elizabeth I of Scotland, because the first Elizabeth never ruled Scotland (and no queen named Elizabeth had). However most realms in the Commonwealth just adopted Elizabeth II for simplicity.

But that's the kind of thing we're dealing with when it comes to regnal numbering.

[Mira]

Originally posted by Lockfågel, Paradoxriddaren:

Yeah so regnal numbers should basically work like...

If you've got Daurama, who has I dunno Tzatak, who has Daurama, who has another Daurama, who has another Tzatak... Your order of leaders will look like this:

Daurama I
Tzatak I
Daurama II
Daurama III
Tzatak II

But it goes by people who've held that title, I believe, and it's only for kingdom or empire titles. So if I'm not mistaken, if you ascended to the kingdom tier and there had already BEEN two leaders named Daurama holding that title before you ever even held it... Your Daurama I would actually become Daurama III.

Likewise, if you move from kingdom to empire, I think the titles would reset. Because now you're going by who all named Daurama has held that empire title specifically.

In other words, IRL, if America conquered Britain and set up its President Elizabeth Whitehouse (hah!) as the new monarch, she'd be called Queen Elizabeth III.

On the same note, interesting fact you may or may not know: Scotland actually wanted Queen Elizabeth to be called Queen Elizabeth II of England and Queen Elizabeth I of Scotland, because the first Elizabeth never ruled Scotland (and no queen named Elizabeth had). However most realms in the Commonwealth just adopted Elizabeth II for simplicity.

But that's the kind of thing we're dealing with when it comes to regnal numbering.

Yeah, I did some messing around with saves to test it, and found that is the case; that CK3 adds regnal numbers upon succession. Which in hindsight, should've been obvious, but alas. So now, I just have two Daurama I's in a row, because the first was still manually named.

[Emperor2000]

Originally posted by Mira:

So, I play CK3 in Tribal, 99% of the time, usually not even converting to Feudal, or stopping shortly after 'cause I find the Feudal playstyle to be less fun. And I'd found that, in the past, names with regnal numbers just didn't happen, I could name my heir the same thing over and over again, and there would be no regnal number.

I was doing this just now in a Daura run, and I had Daurama I, followed by Daurama II, and then Daurama III, all manually given regnal numbers. But now, when Daurama III takes the throne, Daurama II becomes Daurama II I and Daurama III becomes Daurama III II. Did I miss something in Lance, or did I just misremember and it has always manually worked?

Don't add regnal numbers as first names to your childs, it only confuse the Game, but the game is even confused sometimes with Double Names, the Devs have to work on it better.

[lagrangewei]

Regnal Numbers has a minor bugged. seem to have issue if there is spaces between the name which general false positive. I remove the spaces and the Regnal number correct itself. it really a pain to not be able to have spaces in the name.

so i pull full stop in place of spaces; 'micheal.jackson' etc works...

[AdmiralPiett]

Originally posted by Emperor2000:

Originally posted by Mira:

So, I play CK3 in Tribal, 99% of the time, usually not even converting to Feudal, or stopping shortly after 'cause I find the Feudal playstyle to be less fun. And I'd found that, in the past, names with regnal numbers just didn't happen, I could name my heir the same thing over and over again, and there would be no regnal number.

I was doing this just now in a Daura run, and I had Daurama I, followed by Daurama II, and then Daurama III, all manually given regnal numbers. But now, when Daurama III takes the throne, Daurama II becomes Daurama II I and Daurama III becomes Daurama III II. Did I miss something in Lance, or did I just misremember and it has always manually worked?

Don't add regnal numbers as first names to your childs, it only confuse the Game, but the game is even confused sometimes with Double Names, the Devs have to work on it better.

HOI4 has this same issue (not necessarily a problem) with custom division names and ship names screwing up the automatic list progression