Removing Set State Religion

[John Godot]

Howdy!

I've been working on a fantasy mod for Civ4 for quite a while now and I'm getting pretty close to the stage where I might even have something to post but I'm having a bit of difficulty regarding religions.

In my mod, I'm replacing religions with fantasy races. So, you know, instead of founding a religion, you discover an elf enclave or whatever. They can then "spread" (migrate), you can build "temples" (tree dwellings and the like) to keep your minority elves happy. The problem is that this makes setting a state religion or in this case a state minority fantasy race, a silly idea so I'd like to disable the prompts and options to set a state religion entirely. Except I have no idea how.

Is this possible? Or will I have to jump through hoops rationalising a leader calling you a heathen because you didn't make dwarves your state sanctioned race?

 

[CyberChrist]

If you set all the civics in your mod to have <bStateReligion>0</bStateReligion> then it won't be possible for anyone to ever adopt a state religion.

 

[Edgecrusher]

You could always use the corporations instead of religions. They are "founded" but you never have to have a set "state" one.

 

[John Godot]

If you set all the civics in your mod to have <bStateReligion>0</bStateReligion> then it won't be possible for anyone to ever adopt a state religion.

Sounds good to me, I'll try this out. Thanks.

You could always use the corporations instead of religions. They are "founded" but you never have to have a set "state" one.

I was thinking this, but this would require a lot of tech switching and the mechanics are different enough to put me off the idea (having to use a Great Person to found, corporations being so far on the tech tree). Still, if the above doesn't work out for some reason, it's certainly my next bet.

Thanks to both of you!