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In Eve, hitting with a turret is not quite a simple question of being either in range or out of range. Instead it depends on the concepts of optimal range and falloff. You can find figures for both of these if you hover your mouse cursor over any turret. | In Eve, hitting with a turret is not quite a simple question of being either in range or out of range. Instead it depends on the concepts of optimal range and falloff. You can find figures for both of these if you hover your mouse cursor over any turret. | ||
A gun's '''optimal range''' is the range within which, if tracking and signature resolution don't intervene -- and | A gun's '''optimal range''' is the range within which, if tracking and signature resolution don't intervene -- and, practically speaking they probably will (see below) -- the gun has a 100% chance to hit. | ||
Accuracy '''falloff''' is a measure of how quickly a gun's accuracy decreases as a target moves ''beyond'' optimal range. At a gun's '''optimal''' range ''plus'' its '''falloff''', it will have a 50% chance to hit a stationary (or large and low-traversal) target. At a gun's '''optimal''' ''plus'' '''twice its falloff''' it will have only a 1/16th chance to hit a stationary target, and it might not be worth firing at all unless you're simply trying to draw aggression from a rat, which you can do all the way out to your maximum targeting range. | Accuracy '''falloff''' is a measure of how quickly a gun's accuracy decreases as a target moves ''beyond'' optimal range. At a gun's '''optimal''' range ''plus'' its '''falloff''', it will have a 50% chance to hit a stationary (or large and low-traversal) target. At a gun's '''optimal''' ''plus'' '''twice its falloff''' it will have only a 1/16th chance to hit a stationary target, and it might not be worth firing at all unless you're simply trying to draw aggression from a rat, which you can do all the way out to your maximum targeting range. | ||