“ I'm not really sure how to say this tactfully, but... T'Bang, you're groping about in an information void trying to figure out things that have long been understood.
Piloting makes a major difference. The ability to properly position yourself, to do so in a timely fashion, when and which... ”
“ I'm just wondering that if - everything else being equal - the speciated skills for space/ground could account for some of the discrepancies, or if it can be explained by faction differences.
For example, does my FED Human hit harder than my KDF Klingon because he's a FED or because he's Human?... ”
“ Here is a second run on the Terran Defiant agian same build but I have removed the Agony Redistributor and the Tholian Webspinner Array. Those runs are much closer together and make it plausible that it is only a display bug. ”
“ That's another thing I find mind boggling.. I read you as 47K and 44K DPS for your dual heavies... and I'm not even breaking 1K.. *that* much of difference from BOffs, traits, etc? I also note with mine, the DPS for dual cannon and dual cannon in rapid fire I are essentially equal.. huh? Does... ”
“ That's another thing I find mind boggling.. I read you as 47K and 44K DPS for your dual heavies... and I'm not even breaking 1K.. *that* much of difference from BOffs, traits, etc? I also note with mine, the DPS for dual cannon and dual cannon in rapid fire I are essentially equal.. huh? Does... ”
“ Okay, I am NOT someone to jump into a DPS conversation - because I know nothing about DPS. Having said that, I did wonder if the species-specific innate abilities of the captains might have some small effect on the totals? I know that the space/ground abilities of my alien captain are different... ”
I looked over the detailed outputs from a run at something, and noticed a few things I think of as sloppy bookkeepping by the program.. for one, the final number is a simple (total damage of any sort) / (time of active combat).