I. HATE. MATH.

do u like money? the best tankers at the beginning of 1.6 are gonna be the ones who did the math. Combat in New Eden is 2 spreadsheets fighting with each other.

Some modules have stacking penalties (hardeners, damage mods, pg/cpu upgrades); others do not (plates, extenders, etc)
However, if one does (it says in the description), then it is subject to stacking penalties to balance them (because, honestly, who wants a sniper that hits with 560 on the body or a railgun that does 2920 damage...or perhaps a massdriver that hits with 210- SPLASH damage

So to balance stuff, CCP made this fun little formula:

S(n) = 0.5^[((n-1) / 2.22292081) ^2]
S = modifier of the module; ie, complex damage mod adds 10% damage so you write "S" as 10
n = this is the nth module you have added of this type (enhanced and complex, etc---theyre all counted as damage mods).
Okay, so ill stack 2 complex damage mods and 1 basic damage mod
10(1) = 0.5^[((1-1) / 2.22292081) ^2] = 10.00%
10(2) = 0.5^[((2-1) / 2.22292081) ^2] = 8.69%
3(3) = 0.5^[((3-1) / 2.22292081) ^2] = 1.71%
Cumulative bonus = 21.61%

Basically, unless your DPS is well over a thousand, that third module isn't gonna do a lot.



If you hate doing math, the other way to go about it is this:
100% module effectiveness (S*1)
86.9%, (S*0.890)
57.1%, (S*0.571)
28.3%, (S*0.283
10.6%, (S*0.106)


Total bonus: 31.34%.....versus the 100% you wanted. So if you thought u could stack 5 complex damage mods and get a 50% damage buff, getting less than a third of that. Hahahaha. Yay MATH! :D


So if you want to find out how much your modified weapon does, use this forumla
L = proficiency with the weapon you are doing this calculation for (mass driver proff lvl 5, etc)
p = modifier value of the proficiency (0.03 if the dmg increases by 3%/lvl)
D = DMG (the base damage of your weapon)
S = Module modifer (10 = complex damage mod = +10%)
n = module number (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
R = resulting damage (what your weapon does with skills and mods in effect

R=D(1+(Lp+(0.01(Sn))))
150=120*(1+(5*(0.03))+(0.01*(10*(1))))
(A Freedom Mass Driver with MD proff lvl5 and 1 complex damage mod)




Hope this was helpful! Bye now!

Other notes:
An interesting observation regarding Shield Energizer mods. Shield Recharge Rate attribute (previously available on Shield Rechargers) is a stacking penalized attribute. Shield Energizer module description does not mention stacking penalty on the module. However the Shield Recharge Rate of Shield Energizer module is stacking penalized, yet the Shield Penalty is not stacking penalized. This has been verified in-game.

I. HATE. MATH.

I suck at math (at least this complicated).

Could you tell me how big the running bonus is for 2 or 3 complex kinetic catalyzers?

do u like money? the best tankers at the beginning of 1.6 are gonna be the ones who did the math. Combat in New Eden is 2 spreadsheets fighting with each other.