If I have a Railgun or Gauss Cannon, is the accuracy calculated per shot? Let's say I have 25% to hit, is that applied for each one of the Railguns four shots independently or are all four of those treated as one cluster with all of them either hitting or all of them missing?
If the former were true it would make Railguns much more accurate than advertised and make Gauss much less inaccurate than advertised. Especially since Aurora doesn't use true random numbers... so an accuracy of 25% means you will shoot down 25 missiles for every 100 thrown at you and not a red cent more. That would make Gauss of 8% an effective 16%, while a Railgun at 25% would shoot down at least one missile per one hundred every time, but at 100% would shoot down 4 out of 100.
Come to think of it, does that scale with salvo size? If so, than salvo of 1 torpedo would be way more effective than a salvo of 100 sandblasty little buggers.