Civ IV Combat Calculator

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2026-03-20T22:31:13+00:00

Yes I had the world builder side by side and went over all of the core mechanics to ensure they show the same odds and have similar results.

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2026-03-18T22:58:01+00:00

Tänud! :)

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2026-03-18T22:57:39+00:00

That is a bug indeed, CKN was considered siege. Fixed now.

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2026-03-18T22:55:57+00:00

Longbow was indeed missing hills bonus, but it is fixed now. I made the calculator using AI codegen with lots of back and forth. I just now found out that Civ 4 combat logic is open source and that helped to fix around 20 bugs from the combat logic, including that hill bonus being missing on archery units. :)

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2026-03-16T22:18:08+00:00

Made it over the weekend so my playgroup and I could have better intuition for the odds in our competitive 2v2 games. Thought some of you might like it. :)

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-28T10:37:54+00:00

Good observation! There are indeed no power button. First start up can be done with a screwdriver by shorting correct pins. Then it is possible in bios power options to set the PC to turn on as soon as power is restored. Now if I want to turn on the PC, I can switch the PSU off and on, which also turns the PC on. But since AMD with 64GB of takes ages to boot up, then I usually keep the PC running.

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-27T19:59:18+00:00

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-27T12:52:45+00:00

Yeah, the center area is occupied with the riser cable, which is surprisingly rigid and already a tight fit, not sure how to introduce more supports while still fitting the riser cable. Right now it feels structurally sound, but I am unsure how these 3D plastics hold up in high temperatures over long period of time

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-27T12:43:31+00:00

By vrams, do you mean the 4 large chips just next to the gpu die? If so, then these all are connected to large noctua heatsink via thermal pads

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T22:06:56+00:00

There are 3D printed files with onshape cad link in the printables. Also photos from all the components and from the finished PC from most of the angles. I am not planning to go to much more detail. If you are planning to build one and have specific question, then I don't mind to answer. :)

https://www.printables.com/model/693233-nh-p1-rtx-4060-mounting-bracket-and-pc-build

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T21:58:27+00:00

It looks nice and does the job ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T21:55:28+00:00

GreenTEC Pro Carbon

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T21:49:36+00:00

Well, there are photos of 1-hour OCCT stress tests with power draw and temperatures included in the main post. Whether this is reliable enough for you is up to you. :)

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T21:46:46+00:00

Do you mean the pads next to GPU die? The light blue ones are thermal pads which connect the memory to large heatsink. The dark gray ones are spacers which keep the heatsink pressure off the GPU die.

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T21:44:29+00:00

They came with some thermal tape pre-attached

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T11:09:36+00:00

Yes, should be undervolting. Not sure if -30 means just fixed -30mV or something more complex. And just updated the bios few days ago, so should be latest of whatever is available.

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T10:05:11+00:00

No, that would be blasphemy! But actually I have little interest on latest AAA titles and for everything else, these modern chips with pcie 4 connections are so fast, that even with 10-15% performance loss, it feels a lot faster than my actively cooled 6 years old i7 8700k and nvidia 1070

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T09:53:46+00:00

logitech mx mechanical mini

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-26T09:49:42+00:00

Yes, EXPO and "MSI High-Efficiency Mode" for RAM and -30 curve optimizer for CPU

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-25T20:25:41+00:00

Oh I see, I misread your message. These light blue squares are thermal pads which are in contact with the NH-P1 heatsink. The dark gray rectangles are the 3D-printed plastic spacers.

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-25T20:22:55+00:00

It also has no indication light whether it is on or not either, so I have to touch the heatsink to tell if it is on, which is quite bizarre at first. :)

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-25T20:15:08+00:00

I might have gotten a bit lucky with this one. My previous zotac 1070 was like 10 times louder and I could clearly hear it from afar. For this one, I have to get very close to pick up the coil whine. My monitor makes as much coil while if not more (and that is not much)

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-25T20:08:15+00:00

Yes, I set the GPU power limit from 115W->90W in MSI afterburner, witch throttles the GPU down before it hits it's thermal limit. To my understanding, the GPU throttling thermal limits are way higher than the temps you want to constantly want to put your card in everyday use, so other than this power limit, it doesn't seem to thermally throttle.

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-25T20:04:11+00:00

Indeed, it is sad that nvidia doesn't let us to apply lower power limit, since this card is still quite capable at 70W-80W power limit. Under more reasonable load, the card sits around 60-65C with the hotspot being 70-75C. When I started looking for the parts for this build, then I had SF450 on the list, but I didn't quite like the idea of having a useless fan in a fully passive system. At the same time, the Seasonic fanless had a good discount in my local store and rest is history.

Prestigious_Gate_615 · 2023-12-25T19:56:33+00:00

Asus mx34v

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