How come captains can't build forts?

[Lonck]

even though I put this

type            general

actions    moving_normal, moving_quickmarch, garrison, assault, attack, besiege, entrench, ambush, exchange, building_fort, building_watchtower

[pwijnands]

Character type abilities are hardcoded I believe. I added building_watchtower to spies once, but it didn't work either.
The only abilities you can swap around is giving family members and spies the ability to spread religion through using descr_campaign_db.xml, if you use the Kingdoms.exe.

[sumskilz]

The only abilities you can swap around is giving family members and spies the ability to spread religion through using descr_campaign_db.xml, if you use the Kingdoms.exe.

Is this really true? Does anyone know how it is done?

[Augustus Lucifer]

Is this really true? Does anyone know how it is done?

Under the religion section of that file are these lines:

      <governor_conversion_rate_offset float="0.02"/>
      <governor_conversion_rate_modifier float="0.025"/>
      <spy_conversion_rate_offset float="0.001"/>
      <spy_conversion_rate_modifier float="0.002"/>
      <owner_conversion_default_rate float="0.02"/>
      <spy_conversion_rate_foreign_modifier float="0.0"/>

That's from the British Isles campaign. May be in other campaigns as well, though it makes sense if it's only in that one since 'religion' is used as culture.

[sumskilz]

Cool, that should be easy enough to test.