EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello. I have no idea what the numbers "0.8+5.5" mean.

Generally speaking, the range on Auto-Cannons is usually fairly short: Optimal range in the 500-1000 range, Fall-Off in the 5000-7500 range.

Accuracy Fall-Off has an indirect relationship with damage. The relationship is as follows:

As your accuracy decreases, you miss more.
When you miss more, you do less damage overall.

Optima Range is the range at which the weapon performs at it's peak.
Anything outside of the Fall-Off range will be able to evade your weapons more often.

Note, however, the if you take into account the tracking speed of your turrets, often times your true optimal range for any given target (say a Frigate vs a Cruiser) will be different than what your weapon lists. For instance, my Stabber has the highest accuracy vs Frigates at exactly 1000m past Fall-Off.

Optimal + 1 what? 1 meter? 1 klick?

For someone new to the game, words like "optimal + 1" have little meaning.

Forgive me, but I don't think adding OR + FO is the "sweet spot". There are a lot of factors in play, such as the speed of ships relative to eachother and the angles they are moving in relation to eachother, as well as the size of the ships and guns.

If your OR is 500m, and your FO is 3000m meters, than adding OR + FO would put you 500m outside of your FO. You would in fact be less accurate, depending on the circumstances.

There is a lot of believe when it comes to falloff. Here* is knowledge. At the end of optimal+falloff you do 40% of you paper damage. Given that your effective tracking (size of you turrets and sig radius after modifiers are taken into account) is sufficient.

Basicly you do not want to be in falloff unless it gives you tracking advantage that matters. As long as you use small turrets tracking rarely ever makes a difference.

* http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Falloff

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Mate listen, if you can't be helpful, be gone.

From 1 m to optimal (there is an old bug at 0 m that might still be around), you never miss because of range, and you have the best chance at making good damage hits. You can still miss because of tracking. Past optimal, not only do you start to miss more and more as the range increases, but the damage of hits drops.

At optimal + falloff you miss because of range about 50% of the time. This is considered the max usable range.

At optimal + 2 * falloff you miss almost all the time because of range. This is the max range, but it isn't very useful.

* Autocannons have a short optimal and deep falloff. They are typically used in falloff, around optimal + 1/2 falloff.
* Artillery have a moderate optimal and a huge falloff. They are typically used in falloff, around optimal + 1/2 falloff.
* Lasers have a moderate optimal and very short falloff. They are typically used at very close to optimal.
* Railguns have a moderate optimal and a moderate falloff. They are typically used at optimal to optimal + 1/2 falloff.
* Blasters have a very short optimal and very short falloff. They are typically used at point-blank range.

Thanks ever so much for your replies. This has given me much food for thought and I am going to have to revsit my plan for low-Sec incursions.

edi. What better way to spend a lazy autumnal Sunday afternoon than poring over printouts of my Fit, these notes and, of course, a bottle of red in front of a fire?

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