Fancy your chances at ruling a Kingdom? Let’s break down each step of the noble active career to make sure you can rule with an iron fist.

Joining The Noble Career

Joining the noble active career isn’t as straightforward as finding a job on the phone or computer, and might set you back a few thousand Simoleons. It’s the best-paying job in the game, though, so you’ll make that investment back quickly.

Being around a throne will also give your Sim an inspired moodlet which will encourage them to think about joining the career.

Inheriting a Noble Title

You can pass on nobility and titles to your children, but this isn’t a straightforward shortcut into the career. Once your noble Sim dies, they can pass on their throne and title to their children, and once they join the career, they will move quickly through the ranks and inherit your success (as long as they haven’t been promised another noble title by another Sim who is higher in the career ranks).

Claim Lost Career Rank

If you lose your title and don’t promise it to anyone beforehand, any spouse or child of yours can click on the throne and select “Claim Lost Career Rank” to take over.

Getting Promoted

You can turn on automatic promotion in the game settings if you prefer. Do this by:

• Opening Game Options in the menu
• Clicking on Pack Settings
• Tick or untick the box beside Enable Noble Career Auto Promotion
• Apply changes and quit the menu

Preparing To Enter The Noble Career

To level up in the noble active career, you will need to level up in the Charisma and Swordsmanship skills.

We recently published a guide to mastering the Swordsmanship skill, which you can view here.

All Noble Active Career Levels

Once you hit level 3 of the noble active career, as well as receive a bonus of §380 and the Royal Golden Sword, you’ll be able to:

• Hold Court
• Receive Promotion through Coronation Ceremony
• Receive Promotion through Coronation Speech
• Give an interview for the local newspaper (Noble Venture)

Reaching level 4 in the noble active carer will allow you to hold a press conference and bestow a Knighthood, as well as bonus of a plain crown and §510.

You’ll receive the Regal Romancer bonus trait once you reach this level in the noble active career, as well as the ability to Enact a Noble Decree. This promotion will also give you a bonus of §650.

Level 6 of the noble active career will grant you a bonus of §780, a chain necklace, and allow you to attend a political conference.

This promotion to level 7 in the noble active career will also give you a bonus of §880 and allow you to Set Kingdom Taxes.

This promotion will also give you a bonus of §1,050, a jewelled crown, and allow you to perform a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

This promotion will also give you a bonus of §1,345 and a new regal crown display.

It’s worth noting that there can only be one ruler in each world, so once your Sim reaches level 9, they will need to remove the current Ruler to progress to level 10.

Reaching the top of the noble active career will earn you the bonus trait of Blue Blood, the ability to grant a noble title, and a §1,980 bonus.

Once you retire from this career, you will also get the Former Noble Hustler trait.

Noble Duties

Every day, you’ll need to complete a few noble duties if you want to progress in the noble active career.

You will also get paid for each one you complete.

These vary day-to-day, but the main ones I found when playing are:

• Take a nap
• Practice speech
• Partake in a Swordsmanship duel
• Practice the Waltz
• Practice Swordsmanship with a practice dummy
• Reply to noble mail
• Go on a noble venture
• Help a court visitor with a dilemma
• Enact a noble decree
• Use noble introduction to meet a new Sim
• Give an interview for the local newspaper

Favor & Noble Ventures

Do you want to align yourself with the people or go after the aristocracy? This is how you’ll decide.

Sims can earn Favor through career interactions like replying to Noble Mail, going on a Noble Venture, Setting Taxes and Donating to the Kingdom. You can also build it through different social interactions, with more opportunities becoming available as you reach higher favor levels.

Keep an eye out for Noble Gifts, which are delivered every few days. Depending on the sender’s alignment your Sim may receive a lovely present or something far less pleasant.

There are three different Favor alignments that you can take: royalist, commoner, and neutral. Once your favor shifts you’ll receive a moodlet and a pop-up explaining which interactions you’ve unlocked.

Neutral

Nobles who are just starting out will usually have Neutral Favor. If you sit on the fence with your activities within the noble active career, say one day going on royal noble ventures and the next a commoner noble venture, you won’t move from Neutral Favor very much, but this doesn’t make for very interesting gameplay.

Royal Enthusiast

Aligning yourself with royal sims or other high-ranking families will swing your Favor towards royal enthusiasts.

Friend of the Commoners

Becoming a ruler for the people in the noble active career will get you favor from the commoners.

Going on Noble Ventures

Noble ventures are rabbit-hole activities in the noble active career where you will disappear for a while to do some royal duties. Each option will impact your favor.

To go on these ventures click on your Sim and select any from the Noble Ventures pie menu option. Your Sim will then make a phone call to sort the arrangements before they disappear off lot. You can go on one noble venture each day.

Commoner Noble Ventures

• Visit and Present at Local School
• Cut the ribbon at a local business opening
• Give an interview for  the local newspaper.

Royal Noble Ventures

• Visit Kingdom Heritage Sites
• Attend Political Conference for Nobles.

Holding Court

Holding court is a new feature in the noble active career, and it is how you will hear from your loyal subjects and learn what their issues are. It’s then up to you how you solve this.

To hold court, click on your throne and choose the relevant option. Guests will then start turning up and talking to you about their issues. The holding court event runs just like any other active work day or event, where you have different goals to complete in order to get top marks.

Think carefully about what you say to each request though; how you respond will impact your Favor, alignment, and career performance. It will also give you a happy moodlet for helping out your subjects.

It’s also a great opportunity to build new allys from powerful families.

Noble Decrees

You are able to enact up to three different royal decrees at once while you are in the noble active career, and all of them have different perks.

Hovering over the scroll under each enacted decree will tell you the gameplay benefits. Here is a breakdown of what each decree does.

• The Cradle Accord: Pregnancies throughout the kingdom have a higher chance of being twins or triplets. Toddler and infant skill gain is boosted, and ‘Try for baby’ has a higher success rate.
• The Silver Charter: Elder Sims have less chance of Woohoo-related deaths and will have increased skill gain.
• The Verdant Accord: You will have a higher chance of getting rarer materials or animals, like frogs, rare fish and fossils, when hunting for them. Plant growth rate is also increased.
• The Technocrats Mandate: Tech Guru and Astronaut Careers will have a performance boost. Skill gain applied for Logic, Rocket Science, Programming and Handiness Careers. Scientist Career performance boost (requires Get to Work), and if you have Discover University, you’ll get a boost to the robotics skill gain and the engineer career.
• The Artisan’s Proclamation: Entertainer, Painter, and Writer Career performance boost. Busking earns more Simoleons. Painting, Writing, Photography, Guitar, Violin, and Piano skill boosts. The following skills will also be boosted if you have the relevant DLC:
  • Knitting skill gain (Nifty Knitting Stuff)
  • Pipe Organ skill gain (Vampires)
  • Pottery skill gain (Business and Hobbies)
  • Tattooing skill gain (Business and Hobbies)
  • Cross-stitch skill gain (Cottage Living)
  • Singing skill gain, Art Critic Career performance boost (City Living)
• The Culinary Edict: Food and drink created in the Kingdom will be of a higher quality, and the culinary career will receive a performance boost.
• The Doctrine of Vitality: Athlete Career performance boost, Fitness skill boost. The doctor career will also have a performance boost (requires Get to Work).
• The Edict of Enlightenment: Homework, presentations and school projects will be finished faster, and good school grades will be easier to gain.

Noble Rivalry

You might encounter a noble rival blocking your way to the top of the noble active career.

There can only be one ruler of a world, so once you become level 9 if there is a current ruler they will become your noble rival.

If your Sim gets involved in a noble rivalry, this is going to stop you from getting promoted until the rivalry is resolved.

There are a few different ways you can do this.

• Encourage abdication
• Duel for noble rivalry
• Pressure to abdicate
• Seduce to abdicate
• Extort to abdicate
• If the sim dies or is demoted from their position. 

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This career is very different to the other active careers we have within the game in so many ways, and depending on how you decide to rule it can have lots of impacts on the world around you.

Have you managed to begin ruling a Kingdom? Are you a ruler for the people or have your sided with the royals? Let us know below.