I'm interested in doing some theorycraft around signature radius, transversal velocity, and mismatched-class PvP in EVE Online. I'm sure someone's built tools to show the effects on damage from various factors in EVE combat (frigate sig radius vs. battleship guns, etc, etc).
I'm looking for a tool that lets me put in some numbers and does the math for me (excepting, perhaps, some basic trig for figuring out the angular velocity of a target vessel). Any suggestions?
Eve Fitting Tool (EFT) can simulate two ships with their respective fittings, and also what speed they are going relative to each other as well and will show you DPS graphs based on Range. It has been able to do this for quite a few versions now.
To find the latest version of EFT, take a look on this forum post http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadid=548883
Once you have EFT load up two different ship setup windows and fit them out appropriately. One will be your "attacker" ship and one will be your "target" ship. Both ship setup windows need to stay open. Now click File -> New DPS Graph. In the white box on the right of the graph, right click and select Add Attacker -> (choose the ship setup you'll be attacking with). In the same box, right click and Select Add Target -> (choose the ship setup you'll be trying to kill).
Now you get a pretty graph. You can adjust relative velocities down the bottom right. To simulate a common scenario : Make the targets arrow point away from the attacker circle at %100 (Target tries to run away), Make the attacker's arrow go straight up or down perpendicular to the other circle (attacker establishes orbit). The graph will bend and move to show how this affects.
You can also switch to your open fit and switch out your ammo to close or long range ammo and watch how it affects the DPS at different ranges. Or if you really feel, you can duplicate the open attacker fit, name it something slightly different and open it in a new window, now change the ammo or whatever other fittings you like on the new setup and add that as a separate attacker. Now you have two graphs overlaid.
If I recall correctly, EFT will give average DPS when you correctly fill in the target's properties (sig radius, damage resists, etc), but I don't think there was any way to have it work with moving targets.
The equations seem to be fairly straightforward, however, so you should be able to plug them all into Excel or the like to get fairly good estimates. The equation at the EVE Wiki page Turret Damage includes signature resolution/radius, tracking/traversal speed, target range, and turret optimal/falloff range.
If you un-fubar the single-line equation on the page, I think it looks like this:
Where:
I tried looking for spreadsheets on the forums, but all the ones I found were gone (deleted off share sites).
EFT was a great tool, but is not supported anymore. Use Pyfa:
https://github.com/pyfa-org/Pyfa/releases - for download https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/PYFA - for instructions
