EVE General Discussion

CCP seems to suggest the contrary:


Also:



(Yes the quotes refer to a different issue. But this is not Fozzie asking people to abuse things on Sisi, he is actually suggesting doing this on the real server as a valid method of providing balance feedback.)

Because its in GD.

Can I have someoenes stuff?

…but then, this is not a matter of balancing feedback, but of a pretty immense bug that apparently ignores the damage formula and inflates the outgoing damage by a factor of ×300.

Note that those logs show a normal hit (“hit”) doing 130k damage and a high-quality hit (“smashes”) doing 121k. Neither of them are wrecking shots and the higher-quality hit does less damage than the normal hit. The damages are insane and the qualities do not match the damage scale. So this is something going severely awry with the to-hit calculations.

Would be sad if it turns out that the game hard-codes wrecking shots to do a fixed percentage of the target's hit points. Suddenly rate of fire will become more important against capitals and super capitals: who cares about DPS when you have the chance per shot of doing 5% EHP in damage? :)

You have to figure out what causes it first, and when you do, it'll be patched away…

Might not be related but i just had one of my sentry drones hit for 2 damage on a structure i was trying to destroy.

Heavy drones are pretty useless for an ishtar based kiting sentry drone fleet. While I'm not a member of PL, I'd also imagine they don't do mixing flights of drones when there is no reason to.



So without being 100% certain as there were many drones, wrecks, ships, and lags on the Sun, but reasonably sure all the same, no, I do not believe there were heavy drones being deployed by the ishtar fleet.



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Also would depend on the fall off/Optimal yeah? If they were at edge of range, they could very well have done tiny amounts of DPS just because of Fall off.

No. Falloff and tracking only ever affects your chance to hit. The actual damage done depends on your hit quality, which, while related is something completely different.

Your hit quality is essentially the roll of your to-hit die + 0.5. If you have a chance to hit of, say, 0.4 because of falloff or tracking, die rolls of 0.01–0.40 will result in hit qualities (i.e. damage multipliers) of ×0.51–0.9, and die rolls higher than that will result in complete misses. Being far into falloff means you deal less damage statistically, but that's because you hit so rarely and because those rare hits get their damage halved — not because the damage for each shot is minute.

For a sentry drone with a base damage of, say, 160 after resists (i.e. 640 base vs 80% resists) to only do 2 HP damage, the final hit quality would have to be 0.0125, which means the die roll would have had to be -0.4875 on a scale from 0 to 1.

As someone else already said; this looks to be another bug with Hull hits, although I think it's an even more severe effect than those I've been aware of previously. (Farjung's Freighter kill (which is probably the best known incident if only because it was captured on video) ramped his blasters up to 10k or so per shot IIRC an order of magnitude lesser effect than this one).

The loss is petitionable and I would expect the ship to be reimbursed based on the data the OP has provided.

P.S. Hair-trigger posters... LOL.

To the obviously illiterate people in here who cannot read the OP's first post. This has nothing to do with Drone assisting in any shape or form.
It is a case of 1 sentry doing ~121,000 damage while another sentry did ~129,000 damage, this is not over a period of time as many of you seem to be under the impression. This was just 1 shot from each. But if you think there is honestly nothing wrong with 'A' (not a group of assigned) sentry drone somehow managing to do more dps than a sieged moros gun, you're wrong.