Player Features and Ideas Discussion

"Randomness of damage

The damage from turrets always has a random factor in it, this is built into the game and can't be avoided. Under ideal conditions, when your hit chance is 100%, the damage done by your turrets will be inside an interval of 50% to 150% of your average damage (your target's resistance will reduce the damage done too). However, things are different when your hit chance decreases. Not only will you have a chance to miss your target, which means no damage done. But also, the damage interval will change as well. That interval is actually from 50% but only up to (50% + hit chance). So if your hit chance is 70%, not only will you miss a few shots, the shots that do hit are now in the damage interval of 50% to 120%. There are thus two simultaneous factors that reduce your damage when your chance to hit goes down. (This description has two tiny intentional errors in it that were used to help explain this concept more easily: the first error is that the damage interval is spread around what is known as base damage, the second error is that the percent interval only has 99 units, more details can be found in the second part below)."

To be fair its only tastes Little bit ironic. ;)

I don't AGREE with the change but at least I get my math right.

In this case it isn't. If we assume an infinite number of volleys, your DPS will be the same as is calculated.

Which case? If we calculate plain tracking we sure use 100% or if you prefer 75% we can use that, but most battles dont have infinity volleys, so it can happen that you have some minor luck or not.

Sure its not Game Breaking, but we shouldnt whipe it under the carpet.

Facts are facts.

You do know that when you play "free" CCP actually earns more money than when you subscribe, right? Because that means someone else is paying for you by buying PLEX, which is generally more expensive than a subscription.

Seriously, don't argue mathematics with me unless you've got some actual numbers to back yourself up, or unless you want to be crushed.

In numbers - yes. But in effectiveness in practice - there are differences.
Example from "life": even "insignificant" difference between usual meta TCs and faction ones - in practice is pretty sensible, especially with several modules. So nerf of 5% per module is in practise more sensible than the subjective comparison of 5vs100, and it becomes even more sensible with multiple modules.
Both TCs and TPs are getting nerfed, so fits with mix of such modules are getting severely nerfed: you can overheat 3-5 modules simultaneously only for a very short period of time.

When you shoot at things having excessive tracking you won't really notice 5% change. But when you do the same on the edge of your tracking abilities any changes which are insignificant on paper - become very significant and sensible in practice.
You may argue that balancing shouldn't be taking edge cases seriously, but some playstyles - are popular edge cases, and ccp risk to destroy such playstyles. What for??
Also, in pvp players often come very close to the limits of ship and module stats. 5% changes - ARE serious.

Sure, each single volley, yes. But you cannot say anything about individual volleys at all then except that they'll be within a certain range.

And I want to add: we operate with endless numbers of hits only on paper. In practice, number of hits is limited and is relatively low. So out of 30 cycles you may happen to hit only 5 times even with 50% chance of hit.

Neither TCs or TPs are getting nerfed. We decided against the change to TP base strength and there was never a nerf to TCs in these changes so I don't know where you got that idea from.