Guns material

[Oberst von Stauffenberg]

Greetings!

I found a 4 year old reddit where it says that the material of guns doesn't matter and only means what kind of block it has to be placed on. Ergo, this should mean that you should only look at the DPS (and possibly damage type), is that correct?

Staufe

[Narn]

Yes. Granted there are a number of things to look at but the weapon material type is just for gun placement. Typically the closer you are to the core the better the gun stats of guns you can purchase or loot.

[LORDSOL]

tech lvl 50 is mostly based in avorion

[rickcarson]

It's true for most guns. However for mining and salvaging they can only gather materials of one tier higher.

E.g. a titanium mining laser will gather iron, titanium and naonite, but not trinium.

Also, that titanium mining laser will mine naonite slightly slower than a naonite mining laser with the same DPS.

[Troa Barton]

It is possible to find a better turret in a lower grade material in practice but on paper that isn't the case.
Turret vendors and drops have a tech level that gets higher as you get closer to the core, by extension what they are made out of changes with the distance to the core. What im trying to say is they're linked, identical turrets point wise will be stronger if they are of a higher tech and material level.

If you're just looking to max your omicron then sort by dps/slot but dps isn't everything.

A good practice for your automated ships since ambush rate is dictated on omicron but weapons like pulse, rail, cannons, etc are objectively better imo than say teslas or chainguns.

When you get to the point where you're trying to get the best of the best you'll be making your own turret factories. What types of turrets they offer is rolled by chance when the station is founded and where they're placed dictates both their tech and material composition. You may need to place several to get what you're after.

To make things even more complicated even though turrets are different materials their components are identical. Meaning an iron mining laser is made out of the same stuff an avorion one is when you go to make one at a vendor. So hold onto your old turrets and scrap them at a scrapyard for the new stuff. I like to squirrel my components away in a station that doesn't normally sell goods like a refinery because stations will sell your horded components while you're not looking.