A pirate seeks advice,

[Caldes]

Originally Posted by Halod Crane imo Caldes, crossing someones T is a surefire way to take more damage than you give :P Speed is a factor in this, but so is turn rate.

Like I said, Im not talking just speed when I say the game is too fast, but EVERYTHING.

[Wintersdark]

Originally Posted by Halod Crane You later clarified that your intent was that having higher armor prevents structure damage, it is still unknown wether or not this still prevents gun loss. For example, Bronze shot leaks to structure even at full armor. And as Taelorn states, guns take a constant damage - I take this to mean that guns take the same damage no matter what your armor/structure is at.

Outside of the rest of the discussion, I think your wrong here. Taelorn's statement about constant damage is saying that your guns take damage all the time (regardless of structure and armour), thus they constantly take damage.

However, that they always take the same damage is absolutely incorrect, and testable. Get two ships, one with heavy guns and crazy-high damage buffs, and one with un-modified light guns. Fire the same number of cannonballs - you'll find that given the same number of hits, more guns are lost to the high-damage balls than the low-damage balls.

All that said, I assume that Damage Reduction is applied before gun damage, but that is not necessarily true.

Regardless of that, it's almost nonsensical that guns take the same amount of damage irregardless of the strength of the hit. It seems vastly more probable to me, simply from reading Taelorn's post, that the "constant damage" is referring to them taking damage every time your ship takes damage, not the quantity of damage taken.

/end derailing post - my apologies!