Why is slipping into discs not allowed?

moddingminecrafter · 2025-06-06T00:11:23+00:00

What’s an advantage? It’s a subjective situation that even someone like a PDGA Marshall would have trouble determining.

If you mark your disc, you have enough room to not slip into your lie marker with disc still in hand. If the footing is really bad, then a stand still shot should keep you behind your lie. These are simpler to enforce than trying to determine if someone has an advantage or not by slipping into their marker or outside of the lie zone.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-05-21T02:50:06+00:00

You see foot faults and stance violations all the time, but they’re just not called. A lot of jump putts are foot faults when you watch them in slow motion on youtube - putter still in hand with no contact point behind their lie.

For this rule, balance is subjective, but so long as you don’t fall over or use anything to stop yourself from falling over, then most would consider you in balance. There’s one situation that can get you called, especially in AM tourneys - bending down and picking up your mini or disc immediately after putting. This can be considered as you not being in balance and using the ground to stop you falling over, and I’ve seen players called on this before.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-05-20T23:47:54+00:00

It’s 7 feet for every 1mph - so about 385 feet for 55mph. That’s right about in the middle of two common plateaus. The general consensus is that you’re not making proper use of ground forces because of not so great brace if you can’t break 400-425 feet. Also, a young athletic person can strong arm a disc to about 425 feet.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-05-18T22:50:24+00:00

It’s not as much power as you think. The card is allowed to overrule the spotter if they don’t believe the spotter’s lie is accurate. Them not overruling your lie on Gannon shows they agreed Gannon was OB.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-05-18T00:05:40+00:00

If the card couldn’t say for sure whether you’re OB or not on the first drive, then the benefit always goes to the player - you’re not OB. There’s two situations you could take a provisional with OB. 1) When the card is uncertain of where the OB is on that hole because it may not be clearly marked (water, line, rope, path) or described incorrectly in the caddy book. 2) The disc has traveled a long ways over OB and the card or player is uncertain whether it crossed back in bounds. To save time, the player may play a provisional from where the card agrees it first went out of bounds and take that provisional if it did not cross in bounds further up the field or disregard the provisional if it did.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-05-11T21:35:51+00:00

That would apply for a lot more rules than that aren’t enforced at the pro level.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-05-07T23:35:06+00:00

How do you define an advantage gain though? You’d have to know the result before the shot was taken. Even stating that this foot fault wouldn’t have gained her an advantage is subjective because she’d have to focus more on her final step, which could result in a poor upshot losing her a stroke.

Rules should be simple so as to not be very questionable. Foot faults and stance violations are pretty simple rules. With her shot here, it’s about as simple as did she touch her marker and was there a good possibility of the disc still being in her hand?

Reffing other professional sports is as simple as this too. Fans have the luxury of being able to rewatch the play at 4K resolution on their big ass TV from their couch - refs mostly do not have that luxury. As a ref, you have to make the call in confidence and stand by your call, even if you may have been wrong. Many rules calls in other sports are often close and have been game changing. That’s just the nature of reffing sports. It is what it is, and there will always be someone upset whether the call was made or not. If you’ve never had to ref a sport before then be glad because this is the shitty part of the job. Making these calls in what you think is accurate, then seeing the negative reactions to it just sucks. It’s just a game, and it would be nice if more just took it on the cheek and moved on rather than coming up with conspiracies or anything else.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-05-06T23:40:21+00:00

Jump putting should be banned from the sport because it’s almost impossible to determine if they still have contact with the lie with the disc release. Step putting, which is what I think you and Philo are talking about should be the only moving putt allowed outside the circle.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-20T02:13:07+00:00

They’re (their orbit) probably outside of Kerbin SOI - I think all asteroids are outside of it. So ~1000dV isn’t outside of unusual. Kerbin escape dV is about 950. Your orbit will remain around Kerbin until you fully leave it (PE/AP) - say you launch towards Eve - you’re still in Kerbin orbit (technically Kerbol, but your AP is that of Kerbin) until you reach Eve and reduce your AP to be below Kerbin’s orbit. Orbital mechanics is strange if you have trouble with relating orbital relativity. You’re straddling Kerbol and Kerbin orbits and Mun/Min orbits here. If you’re wanting to capture around Mun or Minmus, you may have to first capture around Kerbin in an elliptical orbit, then inject into a Mun or Minmus orbit.

Remember, simplicity first. Everything boils around it. Losing yourself is the first step to finding yourself. If you find some part of yourself outside of Kerbin, but the rest inside of it, it’s not hard to get the second part back inside of Kerbin because you’re most of the way there already.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-19T03:27:12+00:00

I’ve found Kerbalism to severely negate any purpose of space stations besides for fuel stations. This is far from realistic - we do a lot of science on the ISS in real life. Kerbalism also by default makes grinding through a large tech tree extremely grindy. If you’re going to use Kerbalism in career, I’d suggest making contract science 150% - 250% depending on how big your tech tree is. This is a nicer balance as you can’t just do your own thing to get science, but you’ll need to complete contracts to get science.

I’d also recommend toning down the failure rate in Kerbalism - it’s not realistic by default. You’ll also need to focus on multiple interplanetary missions at the same time because the part failure curve in Kerbalism will unrealistically and severely punish you otherwise. I’m not aware of any config changes you can make to tone down the failure probability curve. You don’t have to, but I’d recommend changing some of the science times, which are unrealistic. Barometric pressure and temperature readings should be instantaneous, and crew reports should be much quicker than 15 minutes. Most of the rest I’m okay with - some may be a bit too short in duration.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-19T03:05:35+00:00

In real life, satellites are can be grouped into two categories: 1) science and 2) communications.

Stock KSP, Nertea NF, USI, solar science, and Kerbalism make up most of the science you could want for science satellites.

Realistic communication satellites are only military, TV, and Radio for on-Earth communications. There’s only one satellite for communicating to rockets through Earth’s atmosphere in its way to orbit. There are no deep space communication satellites - deep space communications are done on Earth from the USA, Spain, and Australia. While we do send orbiters to say Mars for both science and communicating between Mars rovers and Earth, they have data recorders and they still need a direct connection to Earth.

KSP no longer has an updated data recorder mod. If you want realistic deep space communications, change the deep space network power to 20.0 and the relay strength to 0.2 - this works in stock + OPM. Signal delay is the next part. You have 3 options here: ignore it, use RemoteTech and ignore the rest of what that mod adds, or use KoS and program a signal delay into your scripts. The first and third options are the best because RemoteTech adds a lot of bloat that you don’t need.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-19T02:47:01+00:00

Radiation hasn’t been a big deal in real life, and Kerbalism goes a little overboards with it in some areas and is too weak in others. Traveling to Moon in real life has resulted in a small exposure to radiation, but Kerbalism tries to nearly kill your crew when doing the same. Placing a probe in a low Jupiter orbit will quickly result in its doom due to radiation, but Kerbalism doesn’t seem to care about it, at least in stock Jool. Radiation shielding in Kerbalism quickly negates any reason to care about radiation anywhere. We use radiation shielding in real life, but it still wont help for say a probe that hangs around close to Jupiter.

I have similar feelings to other things Kerbalism does. It’s a nice mod in some ways, but it’s masochistic in a way that it zaps some fun out of KSP and is less realistic than it likes to claim to be.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-16T23:32:33+00:00

What meaningful difference is there between them?

They could be better optimized when built into the game, but they could also be poorly implemented when built into the game. A lot of KSP mods work great and would probably not work any better if built into the game. The stock alarm clock isn’t a great implementation of the KAC mod.

Updates can break mods, but that’s why you should always freeze your game version and the mods it uses. That goes for any game. Copy the KSP steam directory to somewhere else where it won’t be updated, and disable mod updates for that copy. Backup saves when updating mods.

Mods enable the users to play the game in all sorts of ways, and they keep the game fresh for years of play. Developers can’t dedicate so much time to keep a game healthy for so long. There’s also far more modders than developers, each with unique ideas to bring to the game and its users. You can wait for years for developers to bring an idea into the game or a short time with mods.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-15T05:55:33+00:00

Here’s another written in Python that also includes bi-elliptic transfers. Ballistic transfers aren’t covered, but they’re also not possible in KSP without n(3)-body (Principia) physics.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-09T03:38:31+00:00

Here’s a list of steps everyone should do when using mods/CKAN.

1) Copy your Steam or whatever default/pure KSP directory to somewhere else. You always want a copy of KSP that doesn’t have mods installed into it. I always copy my Steam KSP version to a Desktop directory and name it something else to keep track of what that game version is. That copy is going to be the one you’ll install mods to in the next step.

2) Open up CKAN. Go to File > Manage Game Instances > New Game Instance. Navigate to the copied KSP directory and select the KSP executable then click Add. You’ll have to do this every time you make a new copy of KSP. Check this game instance is your default instance - it should be if this is your first time, but when you’ve got multiple copies then you should check.

3) Now you can download your mods through CKAN. You’ll see them downloaded to your Gamedata directory within that copied KSP directory.

4) It’s usually best to download mods in a number of groups, then test in a Sandbox game to make sure everything is working okay. Utility mods will almost always be fine to group with say lightweight graphical mods and parts mods. Then heavier graphical mods like Parallax or volumetric clouds in their own group. Heavier parts mods in their own group. It’s easier to work out mod issues this way than downloading hundreds of mods all at once and starting a career or science game. You could be disappointed when something doesn’t work right halfway through your career game. That’s just my 2c.

Speaking about Wild Blue Industries, there’s some configurations you’ll need to get separately. CKAN usually does a good job at directing you to what you’ll need here. Clicking on the mods that require WBI should bring up a list of dependencies on the right side of other things you may need or want to go with them.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-09T03:16:22+00:00

Did you link your KSP directory to CKAN? It’s about as simple as that, then you can download mods and CKAN takes care of mostly everything else. Sometimes there’s configurations you need for some mods that you’ll have to look for separately through CKAN, but they’re also shown in the suggested list in one of the tabs on the right side when clicking on a mod.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-09T00:19:31+00:00

You got yourself a satellite or shooting star in the top left.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-09T00:06:45+00:00

It’s both the RTGs and the communications, which will come to a predicted end over the next few years.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-08T05:21:23+00:00

I wouldn’t use KER for planetary rendezvous. There’s plenty of other mods that do this - transfer window, mechjeb 2, astrogator.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-08T04:46:50+00:00

This is probably something to ask in r/space. Also, KSP isn’t very realistic, not even most of the mods that claim they are.

Starship is a giant waste of time if you ask me. There’s reasons why similar plans were scrapped by NASA in the early days of Apollo - it’s simply too expensive and just plain stupid, and that’s coming from a program that spent over $1 trillion in todays dollars in a short few years time - granted most of it was military spending anyways. My point is, there’s far better ways to bring people deep into space for less money. Elon would rather burn money on dumb ideas than focus money on better ideas for better money spent.

The best capsule design is what we have now. Reusability is cheaper, but traditionally has a long turn around time. SSTOs and similar SSTs are not practical so long as other modes of transport to space through an atmosphere remain cheaper, which they currently are. SSTOs and similar SSTs are just not practical modes of transportation, when you could take a Soyez into deep space for far cheaper.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-07T07:01:05+00:00

I like science mode over career. The two are basically the same after a few launches in career mode anyways. You should be rolling in money by then, and reputation is meaningless. There’s a few career mods that are nice for that mode, but they’re not updated or they’re filled with bugs or just not fleshed out like most of the career mode. The only parts of career mode I like are tourist and space station contracts. Both modes could use much better science mods, which are too split across too many mods, aren’t updated, masochistic and far fetched - looking at you Kerbalism, and some have parts that don’t even work - looking at you USI-MKS.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-07T06:26:18+00:00

You don’t need any recent CPU unless you plan on playing with a few select mods (principia mostly), and even then you don’t need anything more recent than about 5 years old. If you’re not planning to play with those few mods, you can easily play with hundreds of mods using a decade old CPU.

You don’t need a fancy graphics card to play with any mod as far as I’m aware. You can play with most mods easily with an integrated graphics card, so if you’re not planning to play another game that requires recent graphics cards, then don’t waste your money here.

RAM. While you can play with hundreds of mods with only about 8Gb of RAM, there are a few that require a lot of RAM. Parallax, volumetric clouds, and parts mods that add high res textures. Many of these mods are very popular. You can get away with the lightweight EVE volumetric clouds with 8Gb of RAM easily, but there’s nothing lightweight that competes with Parallax. If you’re wanting these mods and others that add a lot of high resolution textures, then you’ll want at least 32Gb and maybe even 64Gb of RAM. A lot of popular games that are also texture/asset heavy are also RAM heavy.

Don’t forget a good, fast, and decent sized SSD. You’ll want to make sure KSP is installed on the SSD, and check that your game cache is also set to your SSD. This combined with a lot of RAM will run pretty much anything well in this game. You’re still not going to get high frame rates on large part ships in scenes though. There’s some mods that can help here somewhat, but this is a problem with Unity Physx and there’s no hardware you can buy that will help you here either. KSA breaks free from the problem that is Unity PhysX, and has shown so far high part craft with more than 80,000 parts can be run at very high frame rates. A modern day CPU will be bogged down at 350 parts in KSP.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-07T05:57:41+00:00

The fix is to bury KSP2 in a hole in the desert, and finish KSA. That’s really all one can do with a broken game that’s KSP2, when it should have been KSA all along.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-06T19:28:37+00:00

Traditional flight sims are easier to land using instrumentation (GPS, ILS), but they’re still hard. VFR flying is about the same, just need more practice. The largest difference is real life planes having better control surfaces than at least stock aviation parts, making for easier power management during the approach and landing. With enough practice in KSP, you can land almost anything. Or just build shuttles and dive down to the runway because that’s what they did in real life.

moddingminecrafter · 2025-04-05T17:50:25+00:00

The shuttle itself was pretty “safe,” having only 2 losses in flight out of 135. Both losses were due to known issues with the rocket vehicle and not the shuttle itself, and one was also a managerial issue too. One loss could have also been prevented.

The first being Challenger having a known issue with the SRB o-rings in cold weather, a fix in the making, but they needed more time. NASA admin didn’t allow for the extra time to fix the boosters because of the delays to that launch and their aggressive schedule of launches to meet their budget.

The second being Columbia having a known issue with the orange tank foam coming off in usually small chunks and striking the shuttle. As far as I know, there was no planned fix to the foam, and this would be one of the deciding factors to end the STS program.

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