Hey guys,

I am confused as to how attack and defense affect damage calculations and I was hoping someone had worked out the formula. I'm rank 50, and I've found myself often hitting people with hundreds of less defense than I have attack, yet I still do not hit their damage cap. I also find that I rarely hit the damage cap of NPC's (the Sha'adin shockfighter on my bt has 260 defense and I have 360 att, but I do between 20-50 damage to it). I also recently got disabled by someone with hundreds of less attack than I have defense, so I'm really puzzled as to how damage is calculated.

I know that the size of your ship affects the damage cap, but does att/deck ratio or def/deck ratio affect damage when I'm not hitting the cap? And as you get more att/def, does the difference between att and defense have to be greater to affect damage?

Thanks!

assuming wiki is accurate, this is the damage per shot equation:
Damage per shot = tanh( attack*(random(0.6 to 1.666)) / (defense * 5) ) * damagecap

Also, if you're not online anybody who can see you can disable you, they'd just probably need to repair to do it.

and energy. and you also dont get notified when someone just does damage without disabling/raiding/hacking/usingartifacton you, so if you get disabled while offline, you may never know who really did the work.

You will know if you get disabled who did it.

I didn't say you won't know who landed the final blow. I said you wouldn't know for sure who did most of the damage.

Well, generally, on BT hits the person who does the most damage is the one who kills you.

Are you implying that you have never hit someone 5+ times only to get a "enemy is already disabled" message on your last hit? I know I have done most of the damage to some guys only to have someone else finish the guy off while I am still hitting.