So, i've often wondered about which ships beat other ships on average in terms of DPS and how much power you get from having bigger hardpoints.
I always went with the rough estimate of 2 smalls = 1 medium, 3 smalls = 1 large, and 4 smalls = 1 huge. (you can see that in the spreadsheet on the ships sheet with the Size count column).
Looking at the stats, that's actually overestimating things a bit.
Ok, so what i did was take from coriolis (which may have errors) the full DPS values of all the weapons that come in various sizes and mountings. This meant i didn't include missiles, mines, rails, or PAs in the stats. However, i did look at the latter two, and their DPS ratios don't actually scale all that well compared with some, so its not like they would have skewed the results for bigger weapons up much, perhaps have dragged things down a little.
Now, just to get a disclaimer out of the way, yes, DPS is not a perfect measurement. Turrets can stay on target longer than fixed with many ships, although a good pilot in an agile ship can perhaps do better with fixed in terms of ToT. But then you also have to consider things like the distributor and whether running low energy weapons or high energy ones. Doing a similar chart with DPE vs max capacitor size and running different pips to WEP could produce all sorts of results. And of course, smaller weapons suffer a damage penalty to larger ships. No need to argue this sort of stuff, i think most are aware.
If you take a look at the spreadsheet linked below, you will note that the actual ratio between sizes of weapons is roughly 1.5, with some variation. As a small point, turrets scale slightly better than gimballs which in turn scale slightly better than fixed. Its rather minor though, but perhaps offset by larger turrets turning slower than smaller ones.
Anyway, onto the actual results. Look at the Ratio Count column.
And look at that, Beluga is sitting nicely in the top 30% of all liners... and ships in general. Some might be surprised to see the Anaconda ahead of the Corvette, be even more surprising is the Cutter is ahead of it as well. Also nice to see the Gunship up there (not surprisingly) but higher than the Python, if only just.
Can i also say gooooo Cobra Mk4!
Full details here (formula were lost copying from excel to google): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P1E7-6xlZTtQP8lqGRp1ZWlsyRzuzl9k2iriee-gSKs/edit#gid=0
Anyway, make of it what you will.
I always went with the rough estimate of 2 smalls = 1 medium, 3 smalls = 1 large, and 4 smalls = 1 huge. (you can see that in the spreadsheet on the ships sheet with the Size count column).
Looking at the stats, that's actually overestimating things a bit.
Ok, so what i did was take from coriolis (which may have errors) the full DPS values of all the weapons that come in various sizes and mountings. This meant i didn't include missiles, mines, rails, or PAs in the stats. However, i did look at the latter two, and their DPS ratios don't actually scale all that well compared with some, so its not like they would have skewed the results for bigger weapons up much, perhaps have dragged things down a little.
Now, just to get a disclaimer out of the way, yes, DPS is not a perfect measurement. Turrets can stay on target longer than fixed with many ships, although a good pilot in an agile ship can perhaps do better with fixed in terms of ToT. But then you also have to consider things like the distributor and whether running low energy weapons or high energy ones. Doing a similar chart with DPE vs max capacitor size and running different pips to WEP could produce all sorts of results. And of course, smaller weapons suffer a damage penalty to larger ships. No need to argue this sort of stuff, i think most are aware.
If you take a look at the spreadsheet linked below, you will note that the actual ratio between sizes of weapons is roughly 1.5, with some variation. As a small point, turrets scale slightly better than gimballs which in turn scale slightly better than fixed. Its rather minor though, but perhaps offset by larger turrets turning slower than smaller ones.
Anyway, onto the actual results. Look at the Ratio Count column.
And look at that, Beluga is sitting nicely in the top 30% of all liners... and ships in general. Some might be surprised to see the Anaconda ahead of the Corvette, be even more surprising is the Cutter is ahead of it as well. Also nice to see the Gunship up there (not surprisingly) but higher than the Python, if only just.
Can i also say gooooo Cobra Mk4!
Full details here (formula were lost copying from excel to google): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P1E7-6xlZTtQP8lqGRp1ZWlsyRzuzl9k2iriee-gSKs/edit#gid=0
Anyway, make of it what you will.
