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Title: Beams: Damage Potential per Second
Post by: SF-Junky on September 14, 2008, 05:11:58 am

How exactly are Damage Potential per Second and Sustained Damage Potential per Second in the weapons comparison table calculated? I know that you have to take the damage value given in the weapons.tbl for six times or so, but I just don't get it how to get those two.

Title: Re: Beams: Damage Potential per Second
Post by: Wanderer on September 14, 2008, 05:58:37 am

Damage potential per second = 5.5 x damage
Damage per pulse = damage potential per second x firing time
Sustained damage potential per second =  (damage per pulse) / (firing time + firewait)

Title: Re: Beams: Damage Potential per Second
Post by: Mars on September 30, 2008, 06:53:38 pm

Sustained damage / second is the same as damage / second for other weapons.

Title: Re: Beams: Damage Potential per Second
Post by: blowfish on September 30, 2008, 06:55:26 pm

Quote from: Wanderer on September 14, 2008, 05:58:37 am

Damage potential per second = 5.5 x damage
Damage per pulse = damage potential per second x firing time
Sustained damage potential per second =  (damage per pulse) / (firing time + firewait)

Firing time doesn't factor into the fire wait.  Believe me, I've tested this.  Everything else is right though.

Title: Re: Beams: Damage Potential per Second
Post by: Wanderer on October 01, 2008, 01:22:33 am

Hmm... k need to edit the data then. I wasn't  100% sure about this as ai beams generally fail to hit anything consistently. IIRC i finally chose to include it to match the values with the Zylonbanes beam FAQ.