ok a question about Total Damage vers Total Damage per Second.

Machoot

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My Mk II does Total Damage - 202.1 but its DPS (Total Damage per Second) is 117.8. So I assumed 202.1 come about somewhere after 1 second. To test this I stripped the weapons off and installed a Guardian Shard Cannon (totally engineered out) and with just that installed my Total Damage is 3.9 but my DPS is 76.5. SO, if I did 76.5 after 1 second then why is Total Damage only 3.9? I put a mix of PA's and Mult-Cannons on and got TD of 257.6 for a DPS of 161.1/s (firing is a little too hot). The PA's take longer to spool up so 257.6 takes more than a second I guess.
Coming back around then how can the TD for the Shard Cannon be less than the DPS?
 

Rhaged

Rhaged
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Cmdr. Numa

Cmdr. Numa
Machoot said:
My Mk II does Total Damage - 202.1 but its DPS (Total Damage per Second) is 117.8. So I assumed 202.1 come about somewhere after 1 second. To test this I stripped the weapons off and installed a Guardian Shard Cannon (totally engineered out) and with just that installed my Total Damage is 3.9 but my DPS is 76.5. SO, if I did 76.5 after 1 second then why is Total Damage only 3.9? I put a mix of PA's and Mult-Cannons on and got TD of 257.6 for a DPS of 161.1/s (firing is a little too hot). The PA's take longer to spool up so 257.6 takes more than a second I guess.
Coming back around then how can the TD for the Shard Cannon be less than the DPS?
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The total damage stat on the shard cannon gives you the number of one shard. The DPS add up all shards.
 

Brrokk

Brrokk
GoldenSilver484 said:
DPS is the total damage of one "shot" (all the shards) multiplied by the maximum rate of fire.
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This.

Also, DPS assumes that everything hits the target, which might not be the case for a bunch of shards, or for firing over significant time (e.g. time-on-target for a beam laser, or a target using chaff). The time-on-target issue misleads some into thinking turrets are weak w.r.t. gimbals or fixed, when actually their better time-on-target gives them an advantage in some situations.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Also check - depending on how DPS is calculated for whatever you see, it may refer to burst DPS or sustained DPS (SDPS). SDPS include the reload delay - especially for weapons like frags, there can be a huge difference between burst DPS.

An example from Coriolis: a (unengineered) size 3 fixed frag has
  • DPS of 249.3
  • damage per pellet per shot of 4.6
  • SDPS of 30.2 (3 shots with 4.5/s, then 5 seconds delay for the reload)
So the DPS of 249.3 calculates as 12 pellets per shot * 4.5 rounds/s * 4.6 damage per pellet. But since you only get 3 round per reload and then a 5 second reload break, that goes down to 30.2 SDPS.

What I would call "total damage" of that frag cannon would then be 4.6 damage per pellet * 12 pellets per round * 180 rounds available = 9936 points of damage. So don't bother tackling a Cutter with >10,000 hit points on shields with a single unengineered frag cannon :).
 

Machoot

M
Brrokk said:
This.

Also, DPS assumes that everything hits the target, which might not be the case for a bunch of shards, or for firing over significant time (e.g. time-on-target for a beam laser, or a target using chaff). The time-on-target issue misleads some into thinking turrets are weak w.r.t. gimbals or fixed, when actually their better time-on-target gives them an advantage in some situations.
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Thx - good point
 

Machoot

M
Ashnak said:
Also check - depending on how DPS is calculated for whatever you see, it may refer to burst DPS or sustained DPS (SDPS). SDPS include the reload delay - especially for weapons like frags, there can be a huge difference between burst DPS.

An example from Coriolis: a (unengineered) size 3 fixed frag has
  • DPS of 249.3
  • damage per pellet per shot of 4.6
  • SDPS of 30.2 (3 shots with 4.5/s, then 5 seconds delay for the reload)
So the DPS of 249.3 calculates as 12 pellets per shot * 4.5 rounds/s * 4.6 damage per pellet. But since you only get 3 round per reload and then a 5 second reload break, that goes down to 30.2 SDPS.

What I would call "total damage" of that frag cannon would then be 4.6 damage per pellet * 12 pellets per round * 180 rounds available = 9936 points of damage. So don't bother tackling a Cutter with >10,000 hit points on shields with a single unengineered frag cannon :).
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lol yup not good idea. (y)
 
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