Originally Posted by landshark666

I've noticed a drop as well and so have done some testing. Using a single Phaser Dual Heavy Cannon Mk XII as an example with no other weapons or consoles mounted on my Dreadnought and sitting in system space, readings taken from the ship status window:

396 (base)
441 (1 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)
487 (2 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)
533 (3 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)

These readings are taken from the weapon toolbar at the same time:

1236 (base)
1336 (1 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)
1435 (2 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)
1605 (3 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)

As I understand it, tactical consoles stack with no reduction, and if I understand correctly I *should* have the following numbers reading from the ship status window in system space:

396 (base) * 0.26 (26%) = 102.96 to give me:

498 (1 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)
600 (2 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)
702 (1 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)

And from the weapon toolbar at the same time:

1236 (base) * 0.26 (26%) = 321.36 to give me:

1557 (1 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)
1878 (2 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)
2199 (1 - Phaser Relay Mk XI @ 26% Phaser Damage)

So definitely some serious discrepancy between what I *think* I should be getting and what I actually am getting; definitely would like to get to the bottom of it if possible whether it's an issue with my math or understanding how these consoles work, or whether the base damage of the weapon in question isn't correct due to other factors.

Originally Posted by Krayus_Korianis

Good. Shoulda been like that from the beginning.

Originally Posted by colonelsanderz

There really isnt a discrepancy. It only seems like there is one. Your phaser relays are still adding 26% to your damage... however each relay is only giving you +26% of your BASE damage and not your modified damage. Now the real test would be for you to test and post numbers with the combination of phaser relays and prefire chambers to see if the prefire chamber will base its percentage off of your base damage or modified damage. If the chambers base themselves off of the modified damage... maybe it would be cheaper to use those versus the phaser relays.

Originally Posted by landshark666

No it's not, follow the math I've done exactly what you're suggesting here and it's not even close to 26% either on the first console added nor subsequent ones. In fact, we're talking only about 11-12% increase above base damage on the very first console added in.

Originally Posted by Forgotten-Nemesis

No it shouldn't have. Perhaps you'd like to tell us why you think so.

Originally Posted by aashenfox

Doesn't anyone else think this is how it SHOULD be anyway?

In my opinion, consoles which give a large boost (26%) to a particular TYPE of projectile shouldn't stack (for what it's worth I feel the same way about energy weapon specific consoles), but that both the GENERIC damage consoles (18% or whatever they are) should still stack.

This would make tactical console selection interesting and worth spending time thinking about, rather than stacking as many of one specific console as you can.

Originally Posted by dontdrunkimshoot

your talking about cutting all damage in game in half or worse, without doing similar to defense. that's frankly insane.