An assault suit with max Dampening skill gets a bae db of 45. With a enhanced Dampener module it gets a db of 36 which is what the adv scanners scan on. Would that suit be scanned or evade it? I'm having trouble testing it because i can't know what scanner an enemy is using.

As mentioned on IRC, I'll speak with Remnant and see if I can get an answer for you.

Another question about dampening. If I get scanned and then I put my cloak on (that brings me behind the precision of the scanner) I m still visibile in the minimap or I become invisible?

doesnt the skil that unlocks dampneres dampen your suit by 2% per level?

As mentioned on IRC, I'll speak with Remnant and see if I can get an answer for you.

An assault suit with max Dampening skill gets a bae db of 45. With a enhanced Dampener module it gets a db of 36 which is what the adv scanners scan on. Would that suit be scanned or evade it? I'm having trouble testing it because i can't know what scanner an enemy is using.

Precision and dampening rounds to the nearest whole number.

Citation needed
...that doesn't match my impressions.

What are your impressions?

Here are my findings (verified using two PS3s on Oceania):

1) On a medium frame, profile dampening 5 and one Advanced dampener (36dB) does not beat an advanced scanner (36dB). You still get scanned. So if the rounded dampening number is equal to the rounded scanning number, the scanner wins and you are detected.

2) On a scout suit, you need Proto scout, profile dampening 3, and one basic or militia dampener (26.96dB) to beat proto scanners (28dB). If you have the above but only profile dampening 2 (putting you at 27.54dB) you are detected, implying that 27.54dB is rounded up to 28dB.

3) As a scout with Lvl 5 precision enhancement and one advanced precision enhancer, my precision is 34.43dB, yet I can detect medium frames with profile dampening 5 who are running one complex dampener (33.75dB), implying that 34.43dB is rounded down to 34dB, and 33.75dB is rounded up to 34dB, and as the values are the same, I can detect the medium frame.

What are your impressions?

Here are my findings (verified using two PS3s on Oceania):

1) On a medium frame, profile dampening 5 and one Advanced dampener (36dB) does not beat an advanced scanner (36dB). You still get scanned. So if the rounded dampening number is equal to the rounded scanning number, the scanner wins and you are detected.

hm, im no doubt wrong somehow, but i thought the assualt suit with profile dampening 5 and one advanced dampener (-20%) would be 35 db? 20 % of 50 is 10 and the 10 % of 50 from the skill is 5, and 50 - 15 is 35.... confused

An assault suit with max Dampening skill gets a bae db of 45. With a enhanced Dampener module it gets a db of 36 which is what the adv scanners scan on. Would that suit be scanned or evade it? I'm having trouble testing it because i can't know what scanner an enemy is using.

hm, im no doubt wrong somehow, but i thought the assualt suit with profile dampening 5 and one advanced dampener (-20%) would be 35 db? 20 % of 50 is 10 and the 10 % of 50 from the skill is 5, and 50 - 15 is 35.... confused

Fact:

The adv scanner will scan anything with a dB of 35.60 or higher. This has to do with how CCP calculates whole numbers: the round up at .6, so 35.6 becomes 36 and you get scanned.

Personally I think its kinda crappy design that precision enhancers have a lower value than dampeners, considering the base profile is already going to be lower than the base scan.

A person stacking dampeners will always beat out a person stacking enhancers, so why the hell would you ever stack enhancers? Worthless.

And yet I cannot say that I am entirely dissatisfied with how good damps they are. Mainly due to the OP nature of active scanners and the fact that everyone uses them, it's nice that something negates them... I just wish the passive scanners were a bit stronger as you have to sacrifice incredibly valuable high slots to use them in the first place, whereas with active scanners you aren't really sacrificing anything. Especially as a Slayer Logi.

It still rounds up at XX.54 though.

I don't think I can manipulate the numbers to get more precise than that, but I'll hazard a guess that anything above .5 (inclusive?) is rounded to the higher number.

Not the last time I was able to perform a test it didn't. Rounded up at exactly .6 when I did my test using the CPU/PG number (by leveling). Can no longer perform this test because I'm at max skills. Can't remember what the margine for potential error was either (it's been a while) but it was very small.

...or there were some variables in your calculation that weren't considered.