EVE General Discussion

That is killing a single target with grouped weapons multiple times.

Edit - ps. I don't waste ammo on frigs, I let drones take care of them.

Waiting for who to reship? What are you talking about?

Spreading out your damage is inefficient and this has been pointed out already. If you are shooting at 2 ships at one time, you are halving your damage while the rate of recharge remains the same, thus taking much longer to kill either ship. If you focus on one ship you are going to give him far fewer cycles on his recharge rate, thus killing him faster.

Why do you think calling primaries is so effective?

I don't know, who said you can't focus fire with ungrouped weapons. I know I didn't. All I wanted to know was how it was possible to hit multiple targets with grouped weapons as you only have the one button.

All I see you talking about is not wasting a few rounds between targets. The rest of us are talking about the rest of the time you are shooting.

That I can understand. If you have 10 ships with 8 guns each you are still talking about 40 guns on one target. My argument is based more on small scale, like finding yourself in a 1v2 with 2 drakes. I can see how in fleet battles multitasking targets can be more effective.

One more aspect to multiple gun groups: you have more options with overheating. Say you have two gun groups, A and B, and you put them in your high slots like this:

A B A B A B

You can now overheat one group at a time, using the other group as heat sinks (or at least as non-contributors of heat), and potentially get more overheat time over the course of a fight than if you overheated them all simultaneously.


Regarding questions about what happens when one gun burns out and the rest of your group won't fire: during the battle, just click "ungroup" and then you can individually fire the remaining guns.

You are still hung up on the one time cycle when switching between targets.

Lets make this real simple. If you see one ship, and you are alone, is there a loss in DPS between grouping said weapons and firing them separately. That is what is being asked. Some people claim that one scratch hit spreads to each gun, the dev says no. The other person quoted still couldn't understand that and apparently you didn't understand that person.

How many ships you see or are fighting against doesn't have any impact on the DPS of your weapons. Just sayin'.

THAT IS WHAT IS BEING ASKED! Congratulations, you just got back in to the conversation. I did realize that, I just wasted a page trying to get you to see it as well. It is quite evident that there is a severe miscommunication going on here.



It's only odd if you make it odd. In my line of work I fly solo often and I usually catch my targets alone in the first few days of a war until they figure out that they are being hunted. As we can plainly see as evidence in this thread alone, each sector contains a different style of game play.

I also thought about your equation and set it to one of my recent fights and I only came up with a 4% difference in damage transference, which is not the same as DPS. I can either fire the whole rack and go for overkill which is fine with me, or I can transfer half of that damage to a different ship. Either way, my dps per gun remains the same. They don't suddenly get stronger when firing upon a new ship.

If you read OP you will see that is not whats being asked. And besides, who cares about your stupid question that never happen in EVE anyway?

I can see it starting with me saying that there is a loss in DPS when killing multiple targets. Which is true. And you are in denial.