Thanks Sureshot!
When you say "joins you," do you mean they become a useable combat unit? What if I use the animal for a pen. Can I ever use them again as a combat unit? (not sure I would ever want to, but just in case!)
BTW, love that Woody Harrelson video!
ya its cool
um, if they join you, they become one of your units. if you bring them to a city you can join them to the city, which destroys the unit and creates a building in your cityspider pens require a specific tech, animal handling i believe (the ranger tech)
Also, something nice I found out, you can use summoned tigers to make tiger pens =) Not sure about other animals, haven't tried yet but I'd think so.
I believe that's correct. IIRC they can get terrain bonuses from promotions, though, so there is still some benefit. Pretty sure the Hill Giants start with the first hills one, actually.
@Sarisin: Yup, that's the same as how everything which provides resources works. Why would you expect anything else?
The Giant Spider is the only animal that provides a resource that I know of. The benefit is spread to all the cities in your civ while the pens, cages, etc. only provide a benefit to the city they are located in.
My point was really directed to someone a while back who wrote that in addition to providing Silk to your civ, the Spider Pen gives happiness to the city it is in as well.
This is not true, I think, and it doesn't make sense to build more than one Spider Pen per civ, and none if you already have the Silk resource.
Agree?
Haven't played for ages, but it may well be the case that the pen itself generates 1 , and the silk is an extra bonus. If the pen's tooltip/pedia entry/wherever lists both, you get an extra from the pen on top of the one (max, in every city) from (untraded) silk.
When captured spiders become militarily worthless, or unnecessary, I tend to put them in citys for the silk to trade it away. Even if i can't get another luxury resource, I can usually get a food item I don't have yet.
Someone has to clean up all that animal poop, right?