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Weapon Damage and Armor Info

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I wanted to get a better understanding of the weapons (especially with tech upgrades), so I dumped all their stats into a spreadsheet. This also lets you figure out some useful stats not shown in game, like DPS per size, burst damage per size, energy used per second/Size and energy efficiency, plus there's some funky looking visuals.

There's also an armor selection drop down so that you can see the effects of different armor vs phasers, missiles and what not.

Weapon DPS per size vs shields:
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Weapon DPS per size vs reactive armor (second best):
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Y axis is weapon DPS per unit of size, X is weapon type and upgrades, while Z is distance from 0-990.

Individual weapon comparisons of the same here: 1 2

About this:
-Weapon DPS is per unit of size, with range 0-990 on the Z-axis
-Just treat this as a baseline. Range is arguably more important than sheer damage in practice.
-This also doesn't take accuracy in to consideration. Beam weapons for example have terrible accuracy at range, while torpedo weapons always hit.
-Range is roughly modeled and gets rounded to the nearest hundred.
-Damage Control components only reduce damage that gets past the reactive rating of armor, and isn't modeled here.
-Modifiers vs armor that railguns, missiles and phasers get are all applied here.

Updated for Legends:
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awesome work...
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that is fantastic
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you are truly assimilated, great job
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Sweet and thanks!!!
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Nice and useful. Thank you sir!
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Here's one for the races

This is pretty much races.txt in a sortable and more readable format. It lists everything about the races from their preferred planet type to their troop strength and tech focus.

I'm not sure how to sort in MS office, but in openoffice I have it set up so you can just click on a tile and hit the sort ascending or descending button.

edit: added to top post
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wow, please don't stop [&o]
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Ooo yoiu need to put Death Ray and Devastator Pulse superweapons in there! GREAT Job!
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wonderful summary data. thank you, Larsenex!
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Thanks people [:)]

I updated the weapons spreadsheet so that you can see how they do against armor, and increased to range data slightly to 990. For example here's how much damage each weapon armor deals against maximum armor:

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See attachment for how to set it.

It's added to the first post along with a slightly updated races sheet.
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Ooo yoiu need to put Death Ray and Devastator Pulse superweapons in there! GREAT Job!
I didn't really want to spoil it. They blow thing up real good though though, believe me [:D]

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we should make this a stickied thread, this one certainly deserves it
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Wow!

If this could be updated for Legends that would be awesome. [&o]
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I second the notion of updating the tables for Legends!
Is the data mined from the actual components when they are researched in the game?

Or can it be found in a raw text form somewhere in the files?
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I third it!

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Has anyone made a spreadsheet of the races?
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I plan to do one when I transfer the races to the DW Wiki - as I am also working on other tables from the game and elsewhere...
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Finally got around to adding the Legends weapons! Only images right now, I'll upload the rest later.

Weapon DPS per size vs shields:
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Weapon DPS per size vs reactive armor (second best):
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I zoomed in a little to get a beter picture, the autocannons go to 5.5 or something.

Individual weapon comparisons of the same here: 1 2


About this:
-Just treat this as a baseline. Range is arguably more important than sheer damage in practice, and some things aren't modeled here, like energy use and accuracy.
-Range is roughly modeled and gets rounded to the nearest hundred, so range differences are more dramatic here than they are in game.
-Modifiers vs armor that railguns, missiles and phasers get are all applied here.
-Damage Control components only reduce damage that gets past the reactive rating of armor, so it isn't modeled here.

Anyways there's some interesting stuff here - I didn't realize rail guns got shut down so hard by high tech armor. Also the top tier rail gun looks horrible, does anyone actually use it? I'm a fan of rail guns but I always stop at Heavy Rails personally.

Also I'm going to try missiles and phasers instead of switching to torpedoes early on, looks fun.
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Oooh. Nice update.


Images are not working though...
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Might be because I edited it a million times, try ctr+f5.
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