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i took down a two BC spawn in my rupture without realizing they were BCs. no wonder they were so tough.

Spending forever taking those BCs out made me check my ammo loadout in QuickFit and then double checking with the Tracking Guide (http://www.eve-online.com/guide/en/g26.asp). Neither utility has a concept of wrecking shots or glancing blows or whatnot, does it? The DPS calculations seem about right, but the single shot damage in QuickFit seems way low. I regularly get excellent hits that are about twice the damage. Maybe I ought to use a log analyzer.

Does anybody have a link that breaks down the way turret hits work? Also, does anyone know if wrecking shots are included in the dps numbers in QuickFit or the tracking guide?

Answering my own question:

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=275675

Hit quality is still an open question. Seems to be related to falloff and tracking.

The Rupture is a good ship. With the right hardeners you can do dual battleship + 3x BC spawns easily. Trick is to get the battleships to engage your drones (hobgobs) so they won't go to 35k and start pounding you.

Anyway, in answer to my own question, with no falloff or transversal, you get a uniform distribution of turret hits from .5*mean to 1.5*mean, which why I regularly hit for more than the average. Wrecking shot is 1% of all hits (used to be 1% of all shots, got changed) and is 3*mean. So using your average for dps is a pretty reasonable approximation, as wrecking shots only make your mean dps 2% higher.

With targets in the ~50% miss range either due to tracking or distance, there's a penalty to the hit quality. Tests indicate that instead of doing 50% dps when you miss 50% of the time, you wind up doing ~40% dps due to lower quality hits.