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Posted - 2009.04.01 10:26:00 -
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 Originally by: Roland Deschaines
Well, I keep getting conflicting data on this issue.
If I orbit a still object very very fast, will my guns track perfectly (which makes sense since technically they'll always be pointed in the same direction, w/o having to turn), or will they not track?
Your guns will not track perfectly, if you go too fast, you will outpace your own guns and miss constantly. The direction your guns are facing in space is completely independent from your ship. This means orbiting too fast/too close/etc does hurt your tracking, but it also means if you are approaching a ship and then suddenly decide to do a 180 and fly away from your target, your guns tracking is not affected at all, they still face the target.
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Some people answered no, and said that angular was always the same for both parties, which seems weird gameplay wise (if I web a guy I'll slow him down but that means HE'LL track better TOO). So now I'm in doubt.
Eve physics != Real physics.
Transversal therefore angular is the same for both parties. Webbing someone who is orbiting you will make him track better, true. But it also makes you track better, and the only time the difference in tracking really matters is due to your enemy being in a smaller ship class (ie cruiser orbiting a battleship) and thus is outrunning your guns, but not outrunning his own guns. Webbing him makes him track a little better if he was a bit too fast for his own guns, boosting his dps a few % (like 87% of his 400dps to 95% of his 400dps), but you webbing him allows you to track him at all, boosting your dps from 0% of your 1000 dps to 50-75% of your 1000 dps.
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Other unrelated question (secondary), I heard stuff about the tracking formula being modified because large objects offer a much bigger surface to hit from close up than they do from far away, and that's not being taken into account in the current tracking formula (or has it changed already?)
If it has changed, what's the full tracking formula (or hit chance formula, w/e you wanna call it) (if anyone knows it)? I'm using this one for the time being: http://wiki.eve-id.net/Tracking
Thanks in advanced.
It was not modified. That is the correct tracking formula.
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