Missions & Complexes

Agree 100%

I don't understand why players fitting up top level weapons insist on using bottom level munitions. All they're doing is making it take longer to destroy the targets which in turn costs them more ISK in the long run.

I run with both T2 and Faction munitions in my Cargohold. Mainly I use Barrage on most medium and small hull ship class at first to help clear out incoming DPS. Then after getting into close orbit on main targets I shut down prop mod and apply Hail.

If that doesn't produce the required DPS then I reload with damage specific Faction munitions, especially if the target has high resists.


DMC

10% more damage = less incoming damage over time so safer and potentailly a smaller tank and even more DPS

More importantly it also = 10% faster completion for the combat. In level IVs once you are blitzing for LP 10% faster ship kills translates to a lot more ISK per hour. Getting an extra mission in per hour will more than compensate for the extra cost.

faction ammo is +15% over t1. in most cases it is worth it, on a mach maybe a bit more questionable. now for some math. With 800mm acs, lv5 skills, and a t2 rof rig, the duration on guns is 2.963secs (I'm just rounding to 3), so 7 guns firing every 3 seconds is 2.33 rounds/second. Faction ammo is usually 1100-1200 isk/round, I used the upper bound. so sitting around shooting continuously for an hour would cost about 10 mil isk. Another assumption that when running missions you are firing about half the time, would say that faction ammo costs about 5mil per hour. So if that 15% dps increase makes you more than 5mil/hour difference in income it is worth it. Maybe add a bit of a bump for transportation and holding costs, but I'm not going there for the purposes of this post.

and if we switch to an arty mach with a ~15s rof, the cost drops to ~1mil hour with similar assumptions.

ACs have some of the lowest overkill potential, just don't group all the guns together. I usually go 1/2/2/2, or 2/2/3.