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My queen is about to get captured, turning my princess into a queen, then I'll recapture my original queen, which I expect to turn her into a princess. However, the time machine is showing that I'll have two queens. Is this just an error in the time machine, or can I actually end up with two queens when it's my own queen getting recovered?

I could update this after I find out what really happens.

That's really odd, haha. I've never experienced it, so I don't know.

But maybe, just maybe... You'll get double specialist hires???

I'm fairly sure that the recaptured queen will revert to a princess.

So here's what happened. My queen got captured in sub-to-sub combat, and returned to the nearest enemy outpost. My princess became queen, and was moments away from capturing that outpost and getting my old queen back. My enemy released the old queen, sending it back towards my base. My attacking sub hit the returning queen, getting her back under my control. For just this moment, I had two queens. As soon as my attacking sub landed, that queen reverted back to a princess.

I'm surprised it was the original queen that stayed queen, and that they didn't swap places. I thought after the princess became queen, she would stay queen, and the second one after her (who happens to be the original), would be the one to become a princess. Maybe it's based on whichever specialist is older?


As far as specialist hires, I don't think it's as closely tied to the queen as it seems. Getting a queen captured while you have a princess doesn't do anything to change the specialist hire times or choices, so it's more like the queen lets you access the specialist hire that's separate from her. If you could somehow have two queens, it might let you choose where to hire your specialist, but wouldn't give you an extra one.

I think roadkeihl was saying that if you ended up with two Queens that you would be able to hire specialists from both queens lol that would be pretty funny. But something about this seems weird, I too, would think the princess-turned-Queen would stay the queen. Weird...