Is Kongo's no-holy-site trait hardcoded?

[Zeronix]

I was trying to see how Kongo's no-holy-site trait is implemented in-game, but I couldn't find any modifiers that prevent Kongo from building holy sites or that raze holy sites upon capturing cities. Is this behaviour simply hard-coded to Kongo?

 

[LeeS]

It's in the xml

	<ExcludedDistricts>
		<Row DistrictType="DISTRICT_HOLY_SITE" TraitType="TRAIT_LEADER_RELIGIOUS_CONVERT"/>
	</ExcludedDistricts>

and also

	<ExcludedGreatPersonClasses>
		<Row GreatPersonClassType="GREAT_PERSON_CLASS_PROPHET" TraitType="TRAIT_LEADER_RELIGIOUS_CONVERT"/>
	</ExcludedGreatPersonClasses>

I may have missed another table that excludes Kongo from Holy Sites and Great Prophets, in fact I am pretty sure there is a re-direct modifier in the Buildings file that gives Kongo Apostles or something else instead of a Great Prophet if they build Stonehenge.

 

[Zeronix]

ooh, okay that helps a lot. Is the ExcludedDistricts basically a black box that you can't look inside? i.e. you know that it prevents a civ with a certain trait from getting a certain district ever, but there's no way to modify the "raze district upon capture" functionality for other situations? I was thinking of making a mod that razes all districts every time you capture a city using Kongo as the example to work from, but it doesn't seem possible.

 

[LeeS]

It means that whoever has that trait is excluded from having that district. there's no way to modify the way pre-provided database tables and columns are implemented by the game.