Beam Duration/Damage Question

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I'm trying to mod the game to my personal tastes and am trying to accurately judge how much dps the various weapons do when i'm modding the ship stats. I was wondering if anyone knew how beam duration/damage works for instance:

Beam Damage = 200
Duration = 3.000000

does that mean that when the weapon fires it will do a grand total of 200 beam damage over the course of 3 seconds, which would mean the duration is just for graphical effect of how long you want the beam to last, or is it doing 200 every second for 3 seconds?

sorry if this is a dumb question i just don't want to start modding and make some ships grossly over/under-powered


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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Duration is for the visible time the beam is "On" and has no effect on damage done at all.

look for the Line PreBuffCooldownTime, which controls the amount of time between firing, in seconds.
So DPS is DamagePerBank/PreBuffCooldownTime
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
is that dps calculation the basis where they get the average damage value displayed on the ship info in game?
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Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Note that DamageApplyType gives the time the damage is applied, e.g. Overtime (normally beams) apply the damage over time, and Backloaded means it once-off. I hope I'm right on this.