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I was just wondering if there would be any benefit in designing a ship with more than 1 weapon,i.e. would it increase the probability of a hit?

It increases the total attack power.

If you have two weapons at 500,000 ATK, then the ship will have ~1,000,000 ATK. The accuracy averages out, or something.

The actual attack value is a little less than that. What I heard, years ago, was that the combined attack power is multiplied by 0.99ⁿ, n being the number of weapons.

yep but the accuracy is a tad more confusing. it averages out between the number of weapons, not the runs.

1X weapon 1 - having 10% accuracy
10X weapon 2- having 2% accuracy

final accuracy = 6%

2 weapons each with 500.000 atk would mean the ship has 980100 atk, the equation that chronos gave is right :)

0o, odd indeed.

What I was thinking was if you have a weapon with 50% accuracy,you have a 1 in 2 chance of a hit.
So,if you have TWO weapons with the same attack,BOTH with 50% accuracy,you're pretty much guaranteed that at least ONE will hit.

nah thats not how it works. accuracy here simply means how much of the attack goes through.

think of it as each atk point u have as being one small gun.

if u have 1 million small guns each with 1 atk point and 50% accuracy, half of them will hit their target, so u will deal 500.000 damage

Even with that logic, you'd only have a 75% chance of hitting with at least one. This is because the chance of one missing is 50%, and thus the chance of two missing is 50%² = 25%. The chance of not two missing is 100% - 25% = 75%.