I can, however, see Gripen just programming EFT to take the DPS and improve it by the percent directly, rather than actually simulating the rate of fire (saves on coding).

That’s a pretty good point on the repair cycles. I hadn’t considered the possibility of the extra damage helping with “pinching it off” early and preventing a cycle or two from even happening.

In any case, I think the choice is very tough. Overloading makes a higher dps even more attractive, and I generally overload my guns the entire fight when it’s frigate on frigate. Also, it’s not so much that I’m concerned about someone outright permatanking me – its that the higher dps means your oponent will get less repair cycles.

Indeed. This is because of the voodoo that happens with percent numbers. Reduce a number by 50%, and you’re cutting it in half. But boost it by 50%, you are definitely not doubling it! Damage per shot is a number that gets better the bigger it gets, yet rate of fire is a variable that improves when decreased. Which is exactly what the module does.

If you do 90 damage every 10 seconds, your DPS is 9. Now give the rate of fire a 10% boost (reduce it by 10%). Well, that’s obviously per 9 seconds now, which boosts the DPS to 10. Think that looks like a 10% boost? You’d be wrong then; boosting it to 9.9 would be a 10% boost. Going from 9 to 10 DPS is closer to a 11.2% boost in DPS.

Pretty much Damage Control for me. True that you’ll end the fight sooner… but I’d rather have the overall better potency in this case. Frigate fights are pretty short as it is, and something that has the means to permatank my guns would probably still do so even after the damage mod.

But clearly, maths are needed! and long winded explanations.

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Numbers run with my skills – but ratios should hold to
Case 1: Gyrostabilizer II; EPH: 2662 DPS: 118.4 DEF: 15 over 25

Case 2: DCU II; EPH: 3667 DPS: 98.3 DEF: 18 over 29

Difference C2/C1: EPH: 72.6% DPS: 120.5%
Difference C1/C2: EPH: 137.8% DPS: 83.0%

Basically what it comes down to is a choice between 37.8% EPH or 20.5% DPS. All things equal, the EPH bonus seems like the way to go. However, fighting anything sporting an active tank quickly degrades the effectiveness of the damage control, as does flying in a gang since if your not being shot at clearly dps is the way to go, however marginal. A gyrostab also may make the difference between ganking your target and getting out before backup arrives and running away in your pod. For close fights though, thats reversed.

***Weirdly, 20.5% increase in damage seems wrong to me. A t2 gyrostab gives 10% DMG and 10.5% ROF, but that shouldn’t work out to a straight 10+10.5% dmg —
DPS = DMG/ROF. DMG*1.1/ROF*0.895 = (DMG/ROF)*1.229
So it seems like the DPS bonus should be 22.9%. Am I missing something?