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Signature Radius

The signature radius of your ship can be looked up in its information window. At first glance this number, measured in metres, seems to simply give players an impression of how big each ship is. However there’s much more to it than that! The signature radius of a ship influences how much damage it takes from guns and missiles, how easy the ship is to scan out, and how quickly it can be locked.

Imagine trying to throw a sandwich at a Stop sign. Easy way to do it is face on, so you’re throwing it at the front of the sign; hard way would be throwing is side-on where the sign is only a few millimeters across, and the largest target’s probably the post the sign is nailed to.

Now imagine trying to shoot a Tempest battleship. Tall and long, the Tempest should be much easier to hit ‘side on’ than from the front as it has a much larger cross section when viewed sideways (drawing 1 and 2 on diagram below). EVE does not work this way. The game sees all ships as spheres (clue lies in term 'radius'); as far as EVE is concerned your battleship is just a well-armed ball with a 400m radius as is shown on drawing 3 below.

In EVE, it’s preferable to have a small signature radius. A larger ship 'catches' more damage in combat, is easier to scan probe down, are generally slower and less agile, and ships with a smaller signature radius quickly achieve target-locks on larger ships.

It is easy to see by comparing different ships that the signature radius is relative to the ship class. Frigates and interceptors have inherently small signature radius while battleships and capital ships are much larger in comparison.

Base sizes of different ship classes assuming no other factors are affecting their sig. rad.:

Frigates T1: 30-42 meters
Interceptors: 30-36 meters
Assault Frigates: 33-39 meters
Destroyers T1&T2: 75-80 meters
Cruisers T1&T2: 100-160 meters
Battlecruisers T1&T2: 240-300 meters
Battleships: 320-500 meters
Carriers: 2,800-12,400 meters

Base sizes of drones:

Light combat drones: 25m
Medium combat drones: 50m
Heavy combat drones and fighters: 100m

Factors that work to increase signature radius:

Shield Rigs
Shield Extenders
Microwarpdrives (only when turned on)
Being painted with a Target Painter
Inertia Stabilizers

Factors that decrease signature radius:

Training “Shield Rigging” skill - only applicable to Shield Rigs
Training “Interceptors” skill - only applicable to Interceptors
Training "Electronic Attack Ships" skill - only applicable to Hyena EAF
Using Halo implants
Using Skirmish Warfare links

Considering the lists above, we can see that increasing a ship's signature radius is generally easier than decreasing it.

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