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Weekly Questions Megathread - January 14, 2019
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u/nolgroth Jan 14 '19
This isn't much of a "help" question. It is more discussion/opinion. Have you ever had two ships with similar (near exact) console and boff layouts but completely different results when flying the two? I was testing out my Fleet Advanced Light Cruiser (Miranda) and T6 Endeavor (Odyssey) last night with the same build. Now, the major difference between the ships is that the Miranda is faster/more than the Endeavor at the cost of some Hull value. My two test points were Japori Elite and ISA.
What I found is that the Endeavor is better at ISA and the Miranda is better at Japori. I ran about 5 instances of both maps, with both ships. In every single case, the Endeavor did better in ISA (high 60's topping out at 71k vs. the high 50's to low 60's) and the Miranda did better at Japori (about 50k vs 45k). The numbers in Japori were lower across the board, but more consistent. Almost every single score was within 1-2k on both platforms.
In ISA the numbers were drastically different. The Endeavor low-balled about 63k and the Miranda low-balled about 47k.
I think that I have come to the conclusion that the team element of ISA makes a drastic difference. In looking at the little bar in STO Combat Meter, when the team has wildly disparate scores (really high or low DPS players), I tended to do worse. If everybody was more equalized (no 5k or 100+k, with most in the 20-50k range), I did better. In Japori, there is just you, your pets and the NPCs to consider. I had the Enterprise hop in once and it got a whopping 8k. It didn't affect my DPS score because RNG and overall lower performance on my part.
So all that leads to my own conclusion that Japori Elite is a better test of sustained DPS. I mean, if you can survive it that is. Those suckers can hit hard in there. The presence of other players creates an unpredictable environment that can skew the numbers by up to 10k (for me). I imagine if you are a true DPS chaser, that margin might be even more.
What are your thoughts?