Zen of Gunnery

This article is an attempt at a better understanding of guns in EVE Online works. This is mainly done by going through the mathematics of the function that is called on the server every time a gun is fired.

The equation


The above "function" is called once every time a gun is fired in EVE. Grouped guns are treated individually and then aggregated, not treated as one and multiplied by the number of guns in the group.



For groups of guns or guns fired at the very same time, the X value will be the only variable that differs between the guns and as we can see, that part is entirely out of our control. And all the things that lie inside of our domain is contained within the next part: