EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello, as I'm spanish I don't know well what these words mean in terminology of fire success, I guess hits and penetrates is good, and grazes is not that good, I mean for using -50% range ammo and plus range ammo, to know what's more effective and when.

So, could you let me know all the nomenclatures of these words and what percentage of hit I'm getting from them?

Thanks,
Vizjerei.

I just noticed another one just doing a mission: Glances off and Smashes

It's hit quality, it's affected by your overall chance to hit which is about the whole tracking formula. Without going into details, if your chance to hit goes down due to overall tracking issues your hit quality also goes down. This means that having tracking and/or range issues is effectively a double whammy: not only are you hitting less often, you will (on average) also do less damage per hit, which is explained in game as "glancing hit" etc.

Anyone else having some dirty thoughts reading this? ...

Unfortunately that table seems to be out of date so it doesn't use exactly the same terms.

OP I highly recommend this video on the subject, which every EVE player ought to watch at least once every three months.

I understand how you feel OP and I am a native English speaker. That eveuni wiki post is very helpful but I know that I have seen hits not listed on that list. For example "wrecks" target and some others that I can't think of atm.

I'm not sure why all of this stuff comes from third parties nor why CCP can't have a page here that explains the damage percentage of all the various types of hits.

It's their game and their communication with us to let us know how we are doing. If they give us some coded messages and don't tell us what the code is that seems a bit silly. However yes it is up to CCP to tell us WTF they mean. I would not ask someone else what you meant if you said something murky and difficult to understand, I'd ask you what you meant.

As far as not needing them it would be helpful information to have when learning how to pilot one's ship. Maybe for someone like you that has been playing the game for a long time it might not be all that important but to a new player I would say that understanding what those damage notifications mean in a percentage is rather important and useful.

The "quality" is fairly redundant since you have the exact hp of the hit nayway. If you're hits are crap, the numbers are lower. I don't even have quality checked in my log settings.