Spiderkin

[Tlalynet]

Does anyone know the exact rules for getting a Spiderkin? Do you need Animal Mastery or do you just need to spam the wonder spell and get lucky. Can you get multiple Spiderkin via wonder? Are they very rare or just 1\66?

 

[Valkrionn]

I believe it's just a very rare wonder effect.

 

[BlackArchon]

Is there a way that they are permanently summoned?

 

[Tlalynet]

Thanks

Are they a temporary summon? Thats too bad if they are, it would be hard to make use of them in that case. I should play a game where I play around with wonder more and see if I can make use of it. So far I havn't found a really good application for it.

 

[saathei]

Thanks

Are they a temporary summon? Thats too bad if they are, it would be hard to make use of them in that case. I should play a game where I play around with wonder more and see if I can make use of it. So far I havn't found a really good application for it.

Wonder's a fantastic spell. Sometimes you get undesirable results (&^% Escape!) but often you'll produce multiple summons that you can throw at your enemies. If I have a twincasting archmage, then often I only need him and a guy to protect him, because he'll summon 4+ things to go attack the city for him.

 

[Tlalynet]

Should it be played with the summoner trait? Chaos and Air are the only two magics I havn't focused on in a game yet. (Though I've never really used flesh golemns or wither either) What in your opinion would be a good strategy for using Chaos? A good gold civ to build cheap units to mutate and promote them? Is a sanctifying adept pretty well mandatory?

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I just changed it in my version that that the Spiderkin does not have limited duration unless you have already reached your national limit on UNITCLASS_BEASTMASTER.

 

[Tlalynet]

Now that is a cool idea. I should either implement that myself or copy some code from you're fine modmod.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Well, there's no telling when my next release is and it wasn't in the last one, so you might as well make the change yourself.

		if iRnd == 62:
			iUnit = gc.getInfoTypeForString('UNIT_SPIDERKIN')
			CyInterface().addMessage(caster.getOwner(),True,25,CyTranslator().getText("TXT_KEY_MESSAGE_WONDER_SPIDERKIN", ()),'',1,'Art/Interface/Buttons/Units/Spiderkin.dds',ColorTypes(8),pPlot.getX(),pPlot.getY(),True,True)
			if pPlayer.getUnitClassCount(gc.getInfoTypeForString('UNITCLASS_BEASTMASTER')) < 4:
				newUnit = pPlayer.initUnit(iUnit, pPlot.getX(), pPlot.getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.DIRECTION_SOUTH)
				iUnit = -1

 

[Tlalynet]

Thanks, very nice of you to just give me the code to replace outright.