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Accuracy Falloff, "damage or chance to hit"
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Razdalan Aus
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-06-15 14:04:14 UTC
Pretty much title guys, keep here mixed opinions and views.

Is optimal + accuracy falloff = 50% chance to hit or 50% penalty to damage?
Tomcio FromFarAway
Singularity's Edge
#2 - 2012-06-15 14:43:43 UTC
Opinion?

The mechanics work how they work and it is not a matter of opinion.

From EvE wiki :

"Accuracy does not affect damage dealt, only the chance to hit. "

"Example: A ship has fitted a turret that has an optimal range of 10,000 m and an accuracy falloff of 5,000 m. When fired at a target that is within 10,000 m of the ship, the turret will always hit its target (unless the turret fails to track the target) and cause damage. Between 10,000 m and 15,000 m (the first falloff range), the accuracy gradually decreases to 50%, though each hit still does the same amount of damage. Continuing from 15,000 m to 20,000 m, the accuracy continues to decrease down to 6.25%, getting closer and closer to zero as the range continues to increase, though damage from a hit remains the same."

source : EvE Wiki - fallof
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#3 - 2012-06-15 15:48:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
TLDR; As the chance to hit drops, the hit quality range widens, so shots do less damage overall (i.e. fewer "excellent" hits)

EVElopedia: Turret Damage

EVElopedia wrote:
The higher quality hits get discarded as the hit chance gets smaller. That means the average DPS decrease more sharply as hit chance decreases to 50%, and decreases less sharply thereafter (i.e. as a square function, not linearly).

EVElopedia wrote:
A 50% hit chance would mean 1% wrecking hits, and 49% normal hits evenly distributed in the damage multiplier range of 0.51 to 1.00, for a final DPS of a bit under 40% instead of the "expected" ~52% DPS.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#4 - 2012-06-16 00:40:33 UTC
50% chance to hit.

This affects the maximum achievable hit quality and thereby caps the damage multiplier at ×1.0 (compared to ×1.5 at 100% hit chance and ×0.52 at 2% hit chance).

There is no actual damage penalty.