The fact that both the CFC and N3/PL are both going OMFGWTF R U DERING CCP?!?!?!?!? has me concerned

But the CFC totally bribed CCP to make this change none of us asked for.

I would like to remind everyone to please stay constructive. It is of course valid to ask for the reasons of a change, nothing wrong with that! Constructive feedback is always welcome.

Here's another way to look at the tracking nerf: Link.

Given a dreadnaught that does an average of 10,000 dps under ideal conditions--this is the number that EFT/EveHQ/Pyfa will give you as the dps--this is the amount of dps lost after the 5% tracking nerf, varying with the target's radial velocity. It peaks just below 1, where you are losing about 3.6% of your paper DPS due to the nerf (4331 dps pre-nerf, 3975 dps post-nerf).

TL;DR: The 5% tracking nerf never makes you lose more than 3.6% of your paper dps.

waa waa waa - big PL supercap blobber wants his guns to track subcaps again.

it is getting done because otherwise you could start tracking subcaps again which is not the purpose of a dread.
fin

only if you are going 0 speed and the station are shooting hasnt been bumped you insane ******* ****. in combat, after a hot drop, the chances of you not moving are slim moron. get some experience in capitals before you try posting here again. as i have already told you.

I would like to remind everyone to please stay constructive. It is of course valid to ask for the reasons of a change, nothing wrong with that! Constructive feedback is always welcome.

So you clearly didn't read or understand his post at all.
He doesn't need any experience with capitals, all he needs to know is the math.

It would be useful if Fozzie did that, and actually explained the reasoning behind this. "Lol TCs can now be overheated so riprip everyone elses tracking" is an incredibly pisspoor arguement.

So in one day you've managed to nerf TP's and capital turrets. Your making bad decisions for all the wrong reasons. Your player base has told you what needs fixed, what needs looked at, and what doesn't need to be in the game at all. Yet you insist on adding unneeded and unwanted changes. Then you have the gaul to ask why your subscription base is dwindling?

You nerf the crap out of missiles, then a few expansions later nerf the missile boats, now it's the TP...another missile nerf.

You nerfed dreads a few expansions ago turning the Phoenix into an even more worthless heap. Now you nerf the rest of the dreads to bring the Phoenix back up to snuff but then nerf the TP at the same time effectively nerfing the Phoenix even more. Bad ideas are bad ideas CCP. These are all bad ideas. Fix what's broken and maybe you'll quit bleeding players from the game.

dat sarcasm.

I was not being sarcastic. Learn to read and learn to math.

With the help of the CSM

such pubbie much moron.

Dreads blaping T3s is so a bad design. 5% reducing tracking is too small, 10% would be optimal.

It is barely a noticable nerf.

Exactly this!
CCP the default nerf of the tracking should be 10%, but only on Dreads and trough a triage penalty. Guns shouldn't be touched.

Here's another way to look at the tracking nerf: Link.

Given a dreadnaught that does an average of 10,000 dps under ideal conditions--this is the number that EFT/EveHQ/Pyfa will give you as the dps--this is the amount of dps lost after the 5% tracking nerf, varying with the target's radial velocity. It peaks just below 1, where you are losing about 3.6% of your paper DPS due to the nerf (4331 dps pre-nerf, 3975 dps post-nerf).

TL;DR: The 5% tracking nerf never makes you lose more than 3.6% of your paper dps.

Key words: paper dps.

except ccp also has a random generator that determines hits and misses based on tracking and velocity that cant be calculated you r3tarded little mittani worshiper.

oh look the moron of the hour finally makes an appearance to make him self look even more ********. what have you to say for the shittiest idea you idiots have had yet?

oh look the moron of the hour finally makes an appearance to make him self look even more ********. what have you to say for the shittiest idea you idiots have had yet?

"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. ;)