EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone knows of a list somewhere or can list me from most tracking to least tracking by weapon type Blasters > Missiles etc. Thanks much in advance :)

This is the perfect answer I wanted. I understand the range, falloff, orbits, and traversal all play an affect. I just wanted a general to have a general idea of what ships using what weapons have the "general" change of handling orbits around a target

Uh... we still use PYFA and EFT. You just also have the option of fiddling around with the in-game tool, which is useful in its own right, but is absolutely not a sufficient replacement for an out of game fitting tool.

tracking info no longer shows radians/sec but a flat number, say 500. The new number seems to work better with Transversal where the old info was better with AV.

I saw that, but I don't understand what it means. rad/sec is simple & obvious, but the tracking whatever of 500 doesn't seem to tell me anything sensible.

Yeah, but you didn't choose whether or not to fit that based on tracking. You chose that based on range and DPS, and because you fly minmatar. Tracking is the consequence, and you'll fly in a way to make use of the tracking you have. You'll fit your TC's and TE's and webs and kite and MJD. Not that tracking isn't important, it's just rarely the deciding factor in what guns to use, especially when like the OP, you're deciding between arty and rails.


because it's not anything sensible. There was a thread about it recently, and it's far more arbitrary and hard to evaluate than rad/s. It tries to incorporate sig radius into the picture too, which is impossible if you don't know what you're shooting at, which makes the number far more vague. I think the rad/s should still be there in the show info window.

That would not be the smart way to go about it. You just choose the 1200's as they are a far better choice. If you are choosing your weapon's system based purely on paper dps then I think you are being overly simplistic.

Granted most of my experience on the topic comes from large weapons in PvE situations so I can't speak from experience in PvP. However when I was new and had very low support skills I had a very hard time landing any hits in my rifter. Once I skilled up motion prediction and Mini frig it got a lot better for me. I also learned a lot about the game in that time frame as well so it is difficult for me to say how much was learning the game and how much was character skill points.

Either way I think that a new player with very low experience and low skills might have issues with actually landing good damage on his / her target if they just choose the largest, slowest, highest paper dps turret that they can fit.

The only effective way that I know of to quantify actual landed damage ( as opposed to theoretical DPS ) is by using bounty ticks. Again most of the testing that I have done with tracking and bounty ticks has been with large weapons however it has proven tracking to be far more important that paper dps.

Everything in Eve is situational and if you are in a fleet that has the primary constantly sig bloomed with a TP and slowed to nothing with multiple webs then tracking won't matter much.

There are times that I wish I had some type of damage logger to quantify this better in more diverse situations. Then I think about how damage meters ruined other games and I'm glad we don't have them here.