EVE General Discussion

the problem is that your question has no static answer.

going from 500 sig, down to 400, when you are being locked by a 1000 resolution interceptor makes maybe 0.01 second in difference. but if you are being locked by a 100 sig battleship it will give you an extra .8 seconds. if on top of that you add skirmish links you can gain a full 2 seconds.

and when it comes to missiles, battleships are already way above the maximum sig missiles need to deal 100% damage. so reducing 20% or even 50% makes no change. when it comes to torps and cruise missiles you might see a change, but not one that would be worth the risk.

sig reducing works on ships that already have a low sig like Lokis or munnins. a loki with sig reduction can be very hard to probe, and can naturally reduce missile damage. more so under skirmish links.


if you want to test it yourself, download EFT https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=24359

recreate your fit, and then make a dummy fit to test it against.

on the fit screen, under "ship parameters" you'll find "targeting" right click the sensor icon and select "show lock time on setup" then pick your test fit.

now you can see the changes in lock times depending on fit, by altering your fit, and checking on your dummy fit.


to check missile damage, hit "ctrl + D" . on the white box left click and select your fit as "target" and add a dummy fit as "attacker" the graph will fill out and will show a constant damage from 0 all the way to the missile max range. lowering your fit sig will show how damage changes. remember to put some missile launchers on your dummy fit, with ammo, and use a preset skill set up so that you can simulate a typical encounter.

you can do the same with turrets, but you'll have to play with the directional arrows to get the facing in a more realistic way. (large turrets take sig radius into account for damage too, but to a much lesser effect)