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Whats the most you can target paint somone.
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Sleeth Carrigan
F Warfare
#1 - 2012-09-04 10:23:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Sleeth Carrigan
If 3 ravens were attacking you each running 2 target painters at which point do those painters become obselete? The second one? the 4th? Does it scale like other moduals where you lose most benefit after the 3rd or does it work differently? Thanks

Edit: Also can you target paint structures? Control towers, other starbase moduals and such.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-09-04 10:45:11 UTC
Sleeth Carrigan wrote:
Edit: Also can you target paint structures? Control towers, other starbase moduals and such.


They are large and immobile. What would be the point?
Tarn Kugisa
Kugisa Dynamics
#3 - 2012-09-04 12:27:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Tarn Kugisa
Kitty Bear wrote:
Sleeth Carrigan wrote:
Edit: Also can you target paint structures? Control towers, other starbase moduals and such.


They are large and immobile. What would be the point?


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That's why

You can paint them, but there's no point due to them having the sig radius of multiple titans

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Ottersmacker
Genos Occidere
HYDRA RELOADED
#4 - 2012-09-04 13:49:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Ottersmacker
Yes, target painting is stacking penalized. 4 would be very much pushing it..

(Unless you are an NPC. Like most NPC ewar, NPC TP-s are not penalized, which is why afterburning frigates can have battleship-and-beyond signature radii in the wrong PVE environment)

i just locked an open door.. strange, yet symbolically compelling.
Gizznitt Malikite
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
#5 - 2012-09-04 16:04:36 UTC

http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Stacking_penalty

After the third TP, additional TP's only provide a very small bonus....

Missiles damage is based on a target's ship and sig size and velocity, and it's moderately complicated:
http://eveinfo.net/wiki/inde~318.htm

Essentially, to achieve max damage, you need the velocity of the target to be below the missile explosion velocity, and you need the signature radius of the target to be below the explosion radius of the missile... A strucutre is moving at zero velocity and "typically" has a sig radius much bigger than the missile explosion radius, so TP's don't improve damage at all...

Against another ship, you want to slow it down and bloom it's sig...
Xuixien
Solar Winds Security Solutions
#6 - 2012-09-04 18:06:39 UTC
Generally speaking whenever there's a stacking penalty, the 4th application is not worth it if there's something else you can do instead. For example, say you had a ship with 8 low power slots. You can put 4 gyrostabalizers, but you'd be better served with 3 gyrostabalizers and a tracking enhancer, as you'd actually get more effectiveness (read: damage application) by increase your optimal and hitting your target more often than by adding an additional scant few% rate of fire (which is what you'd get from the fourth gyrostabalizer)

So with target painting... well, maybe that fourth person can fit a different sort of e-war which would serve your gang better? ECM, or a TD perhaps?

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