I am told that all of this is expected behaviour so I should suggest a change 😉
Railguns do not do their listed damage. The listed damage assumes 4 blocks of penetration and really does only 25% of the listed damage (per block pierced, if any). So if a railgun hits a shield or hull or thin part of the ship, it'll only do 1/4 of the damage you would expect by looking at the tooltip. The listed damage of railguns should be updated to reflect the actual damage per block. With the dropoff after the 4th block, a railgun will never even do 1.25x the listed damage, which is extremely different from what the tooltip and intuition suggest
"Triple" etc. weapons actually do 3x their listed damage per hit (not DPS), but only on certain weapons say "500x3" as the damage, while others just say "500" but do 1500 in fact. So you actually don't know the alpha strike damage of a railgun, lightning gun, etc. without double checking the math based on DPS, ROF, and cooldown. The "x3" part should be made consistent (either always include "x3" or always use the total instead)
Weapons that use batteries list their burst DPS (ignoring cooldown) as their DPS while other weapons with cooldown do factor in the cooldown (railguns, cannons, pulse guns, bursting chainguns, ...), making a comparison across weapons require extra math. (Laser sustain DPS is lower than the listed DPS by a factor of like 60%, but you can't even use that as a rule of thumb as you have to double check whether its cooldown time has a modifier)
edit: I trusted someone on discord about the railgun dropoff (each block after the 4th does 80% the previous) -- it's actually 50% the previous so the most damage a railgun can ever do is 125% of the listed damage if it pierces an unlimited number of blocks (or, practically, after 8-9)
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I am told that all of this is expected behaviour so I should suggest a change 😉
edit: I trusted someone on discord about the railgun dropoff (each block after the 4th does 80% the previous) -- it's actually 50% the previous so the most damage a railgun can ever do is 125% of the listed damage if it pierces an unlimited number of blocks (or, practically, after 8-9)
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