Solahma, on 27 October 2015 - 11:48 AM, said:
Gauss rifle efficiency is captured here and has value. It's basically free DPS without an impact to your heat. Sustained DPS already captures that fully.
Last attempt.
Your sustained DPS is bundling gauss with lasers and therefore it does NOT capture the full free DPS of the gauss.
Your EBJ has a heat diss per sec of 4,23, and burst dps generates ~8.5 heat per sec. Your sustained DPS value just multiplies the fraction of that burst dps with the max dps, i.e. near exactly 50% of 13.25 = 6.63 sustained DPS.
If you want to take full advantage of the free Gauss DPS instead of just 50% of it, you'd need to subtract the Gauss HPS from the heat diss per sec, 4.23 - 0.24 and use the remaining 3.99 to see which fraction of the MLs you can use burst dps on = 48% instead of 50% which results in a real sustained DPS of 8.33 instead of 6.63.
In other words, 100% Gauss + 48% MLs generates the same heat as 50% gauss + 50% MLs. So, if you have any interest in describing how much dps you can sustain infinitely, the former is what you'd get out.
I'll play the game instead now.