EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello, I've been reading the Wiki on turret damage etc, but I still have a question that people can't answer me in-game.
Also, just to confirm i'll make some questions to be sure i'm getting this straight.

Lets say my ship has 50% EM Damage resistance (either shield or amor whatever), and someone were to shoot 100 EM damage at me, counting it was a perfect shot, would I only get 50 EM damage out of those 100 ?

Would this still apply if I had 99% EM Damage Resistance ? Would I only get 1 EM damage ?
Or even 100% EM Damage resistance ?


Is there a modifier somewhere after or before 50%, and is there anywhere I can check these numbers or formulas?


Thank you very much in advance.

If the shot is 'perfect', it would actually deal 300 damage not 100 due to the turret formula (think of this as a 'critical hit', it happens 1% of shots fired, or on every successful hit, whichever is rarer).

Yes, you understand the resistance formula correctly. It is not possible to hit 100% resists because of diminishing returns - if you had 0 resists, and fitted 3 modules that give 50% EM resists, here's what would happen:


- First module: Full effect - resist 50%
- Second module: 87% effect due to stacking penalties, so this module provides 43.5% resists. You now take 43.5% less damage than you otherwise would have without it (actual damage suffered is 0.5 * 0.565 = 28.25%). The resist display will show you 72% resists although the game actually calculates based on 71.75%.
- Third module: 57% effect (stacking penalties). Again, multiplicatively stacking, I don't have a calculator handy but it will block 28.5% of the 28.25% of damage you still take, so your actual resist would be around 80%.

Yep. Your shield would drop from 600/600 to 550/600, assuming a shot that would have done 100 EM damage on 0 resists hits your 50% EM resist.

As was mentioned above, understanding how the resists work is a very good first step. They got you squared away with that. Second is also understanding when damage will be applied or when damage will be applied for full effect. That is where tracking / distances / etc start to really come into play. The result is that in a lot of cases, going with lower damage weapons that tack / reach / apply damage better will actually produce more damage in game. As you start to delve into this, you realize how many trade offs you are making with you start selecting weapons / ships / tactics / etc. Its part of what makes this game so awesome.

Yes, if you overhead officer resists in a class 2 Red Giant WH, the resists will be a little over 100% and your ship will pop if you take damage.

For some reason CCP has managed to take sqrt from negative numbers before with turret tracking so I'm not holding my breath on the other formulas being implemented correctly either.

Effective Damage = 1 / (1 - Cycle Reduction)

Example: 50% Cycle Reduction
Effective Damage = 1 / (1 - 50%) = 1 / 50% = 200%, or a 100% increase (double)

A 100% cycle reduction would cause a black hole to open and swallow the universe when using lasers with T1 crystals. Otherwise lasers would just be extremely OP (other crystals are equivalent to several thousand rounds of ammo).

I was under the impression (perhaps I am mistaken) that EVE hard-caps resists at 90%. It won't let them get higher than that. Is that not true?

Deep Space Transports can (temporarily) get much higher than that.