EVE General Discussion

Im pretty new to EVE, and my brother asked me to PvP fit a thorax. I slapped some blasters and armor plates on that bad boy, and when I hover over my guns, it says "Weapon accuracy score: 74".

I have no idea what that means. Is this good? Is this bad? Will I be able to hit the broadside of a barn, or will I be better off ramming it?

Good question. Give me a couple years to get the muscle memory down and I'll let you know if 74 is a good number...maybe.

I would say it's f'ing fantastic; my Pally's tachs get more crit hits than normal hits and more normal hits than misses with only 3.4, so assuming that 74 must be God mode accurate, right? Then again, math was never my strongest subject, so there is that.

Why thank you, kind sir - I shall be sure to pass on your kind words to my space optician!

Put a ping pong ball in the toilet and aim for it.

That pretty much describes this games aiming mechanics.

It represents CCP confusing the meanings of "simplification" and "obfuscation".

Looking at the chance to hit formula on Eve-Uni's wiki I'd guess that the weapon accuracy score = tracking for the weapons at a normalized 40km sig resolution.

It doesn't really remove any steps from figuring out relative steps to compare tracking with sig res to a targets angular velocity and sig so much as it introduces the 40km sig res constant.

Ty is correct.

If you want to know the to-hit probability against a particular ship, you need to know the ships sig radius and angular velocity, then normalize for a 40km sig radius (which I like to call the Ship Evasion Score.) When the WAS and SES are equal, your chance to hit is 50/50.

Unfortunately, the server doesn't tell your client the actual sig radius for anything other than your own ship, so you have to guess based on the ship's base sig, any TPs used against it, whether it has MWD on or not, whether it has any shield extenders, whether it has any command burst effects, and maybe some other factors I can't think of. Playing with the numbers on a spreadsheet or on a napkin, however, can give you a general idea of what various ships can get for their SES. Fast orbiting frigs get numbers in the 300s and 400s, cruisers are closer to 50s and 70s, battleships in single digits and teens, and capitals tend to be, hmm, something like 0.1 to 2 or -ish. Of course when two ships are stationary relative to each other, both their Ship Evasion Scores are zero.

Are you sure about this. I thought that the sig of a weapons round affected the tracking irrespective of whether you are moving or not. If you fire a large round at a large stopped target you'll hit every time but firing a large round at a tiny stopped target you'll still often miss or graze.

Well, there's at least one advantages to the WAS that makes for less work - you can tell that, for example, a 0.1 rad/sec large gun is significantly less accurate than a 0.1 rad/sec medium gun.

Useful in the fitting window I guess, but not in the overview, where we're lacking a Ship Evasion Score stat and instead get the useless "Size" stat.