Originally by: Zeba

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Originally by: demon flir

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Originally by: CCP Explorer

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Edited by: CCP Explorer on 16/10/2008 19:34:44

Originally by: clone 1

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With Weapon Grouping, will you effectively be turning your 7/8 weapons into one big weapon server side, and would calculations of that weapon be performed only once?

With 7 guns there is a slight randomness to wrecking, and variations of movement v tracking allowing that 1 in a 1000 shot. Will those calculations be less / damage less because you are only working with one gun?

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The overall damage distribution will be the same as if you were using N weapons but all the calculations will be done in 1 call instead of N calls, thus reducing server load.

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does this mean if the server calculates a wrecking hit. all N guns will do a wrecking hit? this would vaporize ships in some cases.

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Your guns damage are still being calculataed independently so you will still get the normal range of hit types. Where the server load optimization comes in is that instead of sending the server a seperate call for each weapon as you press an f key it only sends one call to calculate all linked weapons. Add up all the guns in a fleet and you will quickly see how this would vastly reduce fleet fight loads on the node. Good stuff tbh.

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Originally by: CCP Explorer

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Edited by: CCP Explorer on 16/10/2008 19:34:44

Originally by: clone 1

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With Weapon Grouping, will you effectively be turning your 7/8 weapons into one big weapon server side, and would calculations of that weapon be performed only once?

With 7 guns there is a slight randomness to wrecking, and variations of movement v tracking allowing that 1 in a 1000 shot. Will those calculations be less / damage less because you are only working with one gun?

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The overall damage distribution will be the same as if you were using N weapons but all the calculations will be done in 1 call instead of N calls, thus reducing server load.

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Originally by: Tarminic

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Because even when EVE sucks, it sucks less than every other MMO out there.

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Originally by: Jus Lookin

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Originally by: CCP Explorer

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Originally by: clone 1

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With Weapon Grouping, will you effectively be turning your 7/8 weapons into one big weapon server side, and would calculations of that weapon be performed only once? With 7 guns there is a slight randomness to wrecking, and variations of movement v tracking allowing that 1 in a 1000 shot. Will those calculations be less / damage less because you are only working with one gun?

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The overall damage distribution will be the same as if you were using N weapons but all the calculations will be done in 1 call instead of N calls, thus reducing server load.

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This is incorrect. The most popular ships in Eve are the Caldari missile boats, and this is a missile boat nerf. Why? Because if you group all of your missiles then only a few defenders need to be fired to destroy the entire salvo. Remember, defender missiles do splash damage to other nearby missiles. This is why we stagger fire torps and cruise missiles. Or is this a specific Caldari nerf to make other race's ships more popular?

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Originally by: Jus Lookin

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Originally by: CCP Explorer

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Edited by: CCP Explorer on 16/10/2008 19:34:44

Originally by: clone 1

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With Weapon Grouping, will you effectively be turning your 7/8 weapons into one big weapon server side, and would calculations of that weapon be performed only once?

With 7 guns there is a slight randomness to wrecking, and variations of movement v tracking allowing that 1 in a 1000 shot. Will those calculations be less / damage less because you are only working with one gun?

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The overall damage distribution will be the same as if you were using N weapons but all the calculations will be done in 1 call instead of N calls, thus reducing server load.

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This is incorrect. The most popular ships in Eve are the Caldari missile boats, and this is a missile boat nerf. Why? Because if you group all of your missiles then only a few defenders need to be fired to destroy the entire salvo. Remember, defender missiles do splash damage to other nearby missiles. This is why we stagger fire torps and cruise missiles. Or is this a specific Caldari nerf to make other race's ships more popular?

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Originally by: Malcanis

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Originally by: Jus Lookin

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Originally by: CCP Explorer

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Edited by: CCP Explorer on 16/10/2008 19:34:44

Originally by: clone 1

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With Weapon Grouping, will you effectively be turning your 7/8 weapons into one big weapon server side, and would calculations of that weapon be performed only once?

With 7 guns there is a slight randomness to wrecking, and variations of movement v tracking allowing that 1 in a 1000 shot. Will those calculations be less / damage less because you are only working with one gun?

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The overall damage distribution will be the same as if you were using N weapons but all the calculations will be done in 1 call instead of N calls, thus reducing server load.

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This is incorrect. The most popular ships in Eve are the Caldari missile boats, and this is a missile boat nerf. Why? Because if you group all of your missiles then only a few defenders need to be fired to destroy the entire salvo. Remember, defender missiles do splash damage to other nearby missiles. This is why we stagger fire torps and cruise missiles. Or is this a specific Caldari nerf to make other race's ships more popular?

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Are you serious? I have never in over 2 years encountered another player who used defender missiles.

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Originally by: deadmaus

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Because by the time we had calmed Plague down after he heard BoB were back in the vicinity it was too late to do anything

Originally by: ArmyOfMe

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Originally by: Malcanis

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well you might start seeing them now

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Not unless you can reliably negate more DPS with a defender launcher than you can inflict with it.

Originally by: Malcanis

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Originally by: ArmyOfMe

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Originally by: Malcanis

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well you might start seeing them now

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Not unless you can reliably negate more DPS with a defender launcher than you can inflict with it.

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I think mission runners are the ones that would complain as rats shoot defenders. But then again who cares about what a dedicated mission runner thinks.



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