Ships & Modules

My old character was trained heavily in missile skills. This one, I want to use hybrids and lasers. So, my question is, is it better to stack turrets, or not stack them? If stacked and you achive a good hit, then all stacked turrets also get a good hit. But, if you don't, then none of them do. Is it better to not stack them and fire them individually, increasing each turret's chances to hit well?

Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom.

For PvE... not stacking your weapons will work but not for the reasons you think. Basically they allow you to better manage your damage against specific NPCs and not waste ammo doing "overkill" shots.

In PvP... trajectories and angles are constantly changing so the odds of scoring better hits with unstacked guns is "hit and miss" (see what I did there!).
However, the convenience of only having to deal with one button versus several (which may not activate at the moment you want due to lag) far outweighs any nominal advantage you may or may not gain.

Afaik all weapons still do their own damage/hitting rolls even while grouped. Just the end result is summed up.

Group your guns, focus your fire. Overkill may occur, but it's considerably less painful than underkill, especially when under heavy fire.

I try to group my weapons into as few groups as possible. If I'm only using one ammo type, this means one group. If I'm using two ammo types, this means two groups, etc.

Using multiple ammo types can be handy for launchers and projectiles because it allows a more uniform damage type distribution and better damage type selection. See which group is doing the most damage and swap the other group(s) to that ammo type. For example, on my Vengeance fits I'll load each launcher with a different missile type, so I have a perfectly uniform damage spread and I can easily pick out the best damage type to do.

Using multiple ammo types with lasers and hybrids doesn't really make sense since the main thing varied there is range, and you want all your guns ranges to match up.

Ok. Misunderstood the game mechanics. Got it now. Thanks everyone!

a bell curve is a bell curve. I mean if you are shooting NPC frigs then ungrouped (or at least several smaller groups) is probably best, due to overkill factors, but other than that I'd say it doesn't matter too much. sure you will probably lose out on wrecking hits, but you won't really have any of them barely hit does almost no damage hits too (and if you do have one it is likely that you would have missed all your shots with ungrouped guns) or something like that.

Well I use lasers so I always group the turrets nomatter what I am doing... Also I prefer to have all crystals pop around the same time than one by one.

so you will! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1265277#post1265277

I remember reading they did simplifications in the name of server performance somewhere, which is apparently a false-memory based on something also in that thread https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1265970#post1265970

still, if you expect overkill ungrouping is probably a good idea, where if you need to get all the deepz asap grouping is probably a good idea if for nothing else the sake of convenience