@bean I haven't tested it, but isn't it something like this:

<Count.label>count</Count.label>
<Count.labelFemale>countess</Count.labelFemale>

@Dan Dannigan
Unfortunately, I've already tried to make them gender-specific and I couldn't do it. Maybe someone with more modding prowess can do it, but it's out of my league unfortunately :(.

any way to have the original titles be gender specific again? Vicky is a Countess, not a Count :(

HUH. So that's why I saw "Archon" recently. I had no idea it had been changed.

Yeah, so I don't know when you started playing Rimworld but this is a criticism that has been levelled at Ludeon forever. They were far worse about it in the early days of the release. It was understandable during the alpha period that game mechanics would get rewritten, mods get broken etc. and there was an acceptance among modmakers that it was inevitable. But all that really changed after v1 was they slowed the release schedule but still kept breaking stuff.

For me, its something fundamental about the way they handle their game development. Yes, they own the IP but if you consider actually, how much of the playerbase's enjoyment comes from work done by Ludeon and how much comes from modders they have a moral obligation* to at least try to maintain continuity or ease of mod maintenance and they have just never bothered with it.

*Derived from the fact that they do a fraction of the work and get all of the profit.

Anyway, that's just, like, my opinion man.

MEGADUKE IS A REAL TITLE? That's so funny actually

I don't necessarily disagree with what Tynan did - I mean, it's his game, if he wants to change stuff 4 years later that's his prerogative. I just made this mostly because I play with VFEE so the differences were jarring.

I've started using this because the new titles are annoying.

Under so weak a justification as "Re-flavor royal titles". It was done in such a lazy way too, like using the title of Archon as the final rank the player can get is confusing when there's Archotechs etc in game already. And to replace Duke which has good provenance in both Byzantine and western kingdoms and is easily recognisable with Sci-fi heritage as well with "Dominus" which was just a catch-all term for Master (typically meaning the owner of slaves rather than an aristocrat.) Why do that?

The Byzantine Empire actually had a title of a "Mega-Duke" which I've always thought was criminally underused in sci-fi.

I understand that they are mostly more in keeping with the original "Byzantine Empire" theme that Ludeon were supposedly going for but I find it offensive that they would arrogantly change something on a whim like this that has been in place for more than 4 years.