So I was wondering if there was a way to change the maximum number of devotion points you can invest. I saw devotion point cap in gamengine.dbr under database/records/game but changing that didn’t seem to do anything for my game.
Has anyone had success with changing that? Or does it only register on a new game?
There are some sort of “protected” entries in the gameengine.dbr.
You probably need to make a “hard” mod to make this apply.
A “hard” mod means that you need to compile a database that includes all original database files + your changes and replace the original database in the game’s installation folder by your new compiled one.
But make sure to keep a copy of the original database! 
not entirely sure what I did, but now any time I try to open any of the database files with the DBREditor I get ‘Couldn’t open x (template not found).’ (where x s whatever file I’m trying to open)
I moved the main database to the desktop and then copied it back to the main folder, and I also copied it to a mod folder that I labeled ‘test’. I then changed the files I wanted in ‘test’ and then copied that over top of the database in the main folder.
You probably accidentially deleted or move the templates.
Try extracting game files again.
thanks 
The main issue I was having is that I hadn’t realized that when you compile a mod it doesn’t create a database.arz file, instead it creates ‘modname’.arz which wasn’t letting me override the base files. Overriding the base files worked for devotion, so thanks