True, but the lower DPS for missiles needs to also be taken into account. Magnetics combined with the falloff bonus from Numquil bots will most likely still do more damage at missile optimal range then missiles do. Firearms will probably do a bit less but even then not that much seeing how missile DPS is really quite low.

From a pure DPS point of view cycle time is completely irrelevant. Regardless of your cycle time each percentage of crit adds 0,75% to your DPS ( with diminishing returns, 19% to 20% crit adds only 0,656% DPS. )

From your timeframe point of view however lower cycle time weapons are actually better. Getting a crit with a 10 second cycle time weapon is like getting 2 crits in a row with a 5 second cycle time weapon. Crits hurt, but chain crits kill. The more cycle time your weapons the more chain crits would be needed from a faster weapon.

If you had to pick between 2 bonuses, double your crit chance or double your crit damage, which would you pick? Just look at so many other RPGs, increasing crit chance is quite common on items, stat effects and talents. Increasing your crit damage is generally only found on higher talents.

100 1 dmg shots at 9% crit deal 106,75 damage ( 91 normal hits @ 1 dmg, 9 crits @ 1,75 dmg )

100 1 dmg shots at 10% crit deal 107,5 damage ( 90 normal hits @ 1 dmg and 10 crits @ 1,75 dmg )

107,5/106,75 = 1,00702 = a 0,702% increase.

For a thelodica bot with maxed robotics it's even worse. Only a 0,656% increase going from lvl 9 crit to lvl 10.

Dainty

Does well known actually warrant votes?

If I had to choose between a game I knew to be a buggy boring mess and a game I didn't know much about I'd definitely choose the unknown one.

Then again I suppose the "If I haven't heard about it it can't be that good anyway." sentiment also has some merit.

Still from what I've seen on forums and such FF XIV has it's share of extreme fanboys that I wouldn't be too surprised about if I knew they'd been casting 20+ votes whenever possible.

And just to keep some constant in the replies of this thread:

*Insert random insult to Neoxx here*

Very well....

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you know what word that is even if you can't read it....

How about a temporary stacking resistance against the damage types?

If you get hit by thermal damage then for you get some extra resistance ( besides normal resistance ) against the next thermal damage. This resistance would gradually decrease with a set number per second. The amount of resistance would be based on the amount of damage taken compared to your maximum armor. Weapons firing at exactly the same time ( by pressing space ) only apply the resistance after all shots hit.

So for example a bot loses 10% hp from a thermal shot. After this it would gain a flat 25% decrease to the next thermal damage. This resistance would gradually decrease by say 10% per second. So if it was hit by another bot with the same strength thermal shot it would only lose 7,5% hp. This in turn would boost it's thermal resistance again by say 18,75% for a total of 43,75%.

The precise percentages would have to be changed but the end goal is that there will be diminishing returns for every extra bot firing at a target. So that 20 people wouldn't be twice as strong as 10 people, but only say 1,5 times as strong. The result would hopefully be that the extra coordination needed for an additional person would eventually outweigh the benefit of the damage they bring.

A big organised corp could still bring a large squad and with proper coordination and multiple target calling wreak havoc, but with lesser organisation you'd be limiting your effectiveness and thus giving smaller but more organised groups a chance.

It would also be a self-balancing mechanism if one race is stronger then the others. Each race does a majority of one damage type, so that damage type would be most used and thus the stacking resistances the highest. Thus other races would be more welcome in squads to add more variety to damage types. In the end the optimal group wouldn't be one with only the FotM race but instead one with a slight majority of FotM but still a decent representation of other races.

Lore/Physics wise the explanation would be simple. If your armor has been recently superheated by thermal damage then additional heating will have a reduced effect. If your armor and the underlying systems are already punctured by kinetic damage then additional kinetic damage will need to be much stronger to penetrate deep enough to hit the next row of internal systems. If your armor is already a compressed mess from seismic explosions then additional explosions will need more force to do an equal amount of damage. And adding more corrosive chemicals to an area that's already covered in them wouldn't do that much additional damage.

I fully support this . If it happens I look forward to playing with 10ms.

This is my fourth or fifth Gobla on this account. Not sure about being bound to account but you can definitely delete characters and recreate one with the same name.

I think it's more to player relations not NPCs.

Say he's in a corp that's at war and has allies. If there's just a few of each he can remember their corp names and easily check in the overview.

But say he's at war with 10+ corps and 25+ allies I suspect it may get a bit confusing on who exactly is red and who is blue.

Atleast I think that's what the problem is.

Hit chance seems to be only calculated by Surface Size/Hit Dispersion.

Medium lasers are the most accurate medium weapons and untrained have a 3/8 chance to hit and with enough training can get that up near 50%.

My tests so far show that extensions which decrease smaller numbers such as lock time, reload time and probably hit dispersion as well are calculated as:

( 1 / ( 1 + A ) ) * B.
With A = percentile decrease ( 3% decrease means A = 0,03, 3 levels of 3% decrease means A = 0,09. 3 levels of skill decrease plus module with 10% decrease means A = 0,19 )
With B = base level ( so for target locking B = 12,5 )

This means that with a surface hit size of 3 ( light robots ) the worst you'll face is a 50% chance to be hit by medium weapons. More likely the chance will be around 33% or so.

How close did you guys come to the Ballmer Peak?

I expect some seriously godlike and awesome patches soon due to superhuman programming abilities.....