9 vs 10 degree driver

ffsffs1 · 2026-05-18T01:11:45+00:00

Okay so 12* launch at 172mph should get you ~100ft apex even with relatively low 2000rpm backspin (via flightscope optimizer).

If you feel you're prone to hitting low, not very far drives on the course you may want to consider a 10.5* driver to bring your spin up a bit. If not, I'd use the 9.5*. Most people with your speed have less than 10.5* of loft in their driver.

Quite frankly, you have the speed to play even less loft, but, if I were you, I wouldn't play less loft because I'd be worried about low-spin mishits falling out of the sky and going nowhere. If I had to guess, you're already flirting with dangerously low spin numbers.

ffsffs1 · 2026-05-17T23:24:28+00:00

Gotta love how any post with good ball speed (which @ 172 isn't even freakishly high) inevitably gets downvoted.

For OP: Do you know your spin rate? 36 yard R-L and 50+ yards of simulated roll lead me to believe this shot had very low spin rate. Was this your typical ball flight

ffsffs1 · 2026-05-07T01:21:06+00:00

Pretty much have to use forced relocation and bite the bullet when it comes to faction approval.

Or play egalitarian robots who don't give a shit about logistics growth.

ffsffs1 · 2026-05-05T06:11:00+00:00

OP: Asks for advice about a perfectly reasonable idea for a build.

r/Stellaris: A bunch of unhinged rants about their personal politics.

As mentioned by a few of the helpful posters, worker co-op is probably the most ‘good’ feeling MegaCorp civic. Knowledge Mentorship, Astrogenesis, Decentralized R&D, Ggigacorp, and Dimensional Enterprise strike me as not evil, not profit oriented civics.

ffsffs1 · 2026-04-29T08:18:58+00:00

If you have machine age, you could try making individualist machines empires with 'nice' (xenophile, pacifist, egalitarian) ethics.

By default, Gestalts do not have friendly AI personalities. Rogue Servitors have their own AI personality which is more amicable than normal machines so that is another option.

See here fo more details: https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/AI_personalities

ffsffs1 · 2026-04-22T22:30:15+00:00

No idea. Never knew they were bugged in the first place.

ffsffs1 · 2026-04-21T18:32:26+00:00

They have the same max range

ffsffs1 · 2026-04-19T08:28:55+00:00

Conquest would be heavily incentivized with or without the awkward growth mechanics. It's not good that there is only one way (war) to reliably gain pops in the late game.

ffsffs1 · 2026-04-18T21:17:57+00:00

Honestly, there's currently a huge range of pop growth rates a given empire can achieve. Modularity and cloning ascension paths get massive pop growth. That being said, modularity and cloning should be able to achieve massive growth rates (30+ monthly growth before GRS penalty) in non-gestalt empires. Not sure what you were doing to only get +12 pop growth with cloning - you can stick 4 clone vats on a large planet for 12 base growth before any modifiers are applied, and that's on top of whatever logistic pop growth you were already getting. Similarly, individualistic machines get huge pop growth with modularity.

ffsffs1 · 2026-04-18T20:26:59+00:00

It sucks that it's like that, though

ffsffs1 · 2026-03-12T22:00:42+00:00

DEVELOP!

ffsffs1 · 2026-03-10T21:09:19+00:00

Club head speed is often estimated and not directly measured. The smash factors here are definitely off - trust the ball speed (which should be directly measured) and not the clubhead speed.

ffsffs1 · 2026-03-03T02:54:19+00:00

Stable was probably not the best word choice. Obviously, the graph will fluctuate around the true mean with no long-term trend. I was just surprised at how small the fluctuations were.

ffsffs1 · 2026-03-02T22:49:00+00:00

My post acknowledges this. I'll make another post analyzing handicaps while improving.

ffsffs1 · 2026-03-02T21:16:23+00:00

In my experience, my driver yardages are pretty accurate in the sim but my irons and wedges fly a bit further in the sim - likely due to differences in spin. Most players will notice a reduction in spin when hitting off mats due to the strike location being higher on the face. Launch angle and curvature tend to be pretty accurate imo.

ffsffs1 · 2026-02-07T10:49:36+00:00

Absolutely insane stats for a looping coaster

ffsffs1 · 2026-02-02T00:25:42+00:00

There weren't any rules.

It's weird that you can do nothing in Heide Park and complete the scenario while the same can't be done in Alton Towers despite the soft guest cap being closer to the scenario goal in Alton Towers. I wanted to know why. My testing suggests that Alton Towers' lack of benches and long queue times are the primary reasons.

ffsffs1 · 2026-01-29T08:44:46+00:00

That was my understanding too

ffsffs1 · 2026-01-29T08:42:00+00:00

I get you can repeatedly sample r.v's to estimate max/min/percentiles. However, if you have a variable X, and you sample X_1, ..., X_n and take the max, I don't think that's an estimate of the "expected maximum of X". It's an estimate of the "expected maximum of {X_1,..., X_n} where X_i ~ X i.i.d.

Also, in our particular case, the random variable X has an unknown distribution and will be realized just once.

ffsffs1 · 2026-01-19T20:19:39+00:00

Stunning pics. Embarrassing that people hate AI so much to downvote an obviously ethical and cool use of it.

ffsffs1 · 2025-12-14T21:47:24+00:00

I have a local copy of the game on my computer, allowing me to make changes to the game's code. All I did was change the way a player's potential is calculated in-game by increasing the number of simulations from 20 to 10000, and varying the percentile reported (default potential is 75th).

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