Rail gun missing from close range and long range without obstruction

I've had a few cases where the railgun completely misses the targeted ship at a range no larger than a mortor blast area
I understand there are instances where boost can happen and such but that wasn't the case
Literally had one railgun round go through a ship and another where I was in high ground and it was clearly a clean shot, hit the ship and register 0 damage and I was well enough away for a 100% strike

 

This happens to me as well at medium to long range. Never had a hit not register at close range though.
I just assume a scared fish jumped out of the water and got vaporized.

A good fix would be to give the railgun a tiny splash radius of 0.3. Not big enough to hit other ships, but big enough to be a little bit more forgiving.

 

I believe this happens the way any other "hit" misses. The server and your screen aren't quite synced up so on your screen and what actually happens isn't always the case.

The rail gun doesn't need anymore help lol taking over two thousand damage at once your accuracy better be dead nuts otherwise it's unfair.

 

Like @Rango8 said, this is most likely your connection or the target's connection, sometimes when you or the target lags you think he's at position a but the server says he's at position b. It's a lot more complex then that but that's a whole other story

 

So the problem may be the ping and game lag, so if that's what it is then that should be a focus, I do not play unless I'm on wifi because I knew that may be an issue but it's beginning to become more prevalent, twice last round I had green and immediately shot, and my shot hit them, but registered no damage,
I understand the "lag" concept but this is something that changes the game completely especially when you have one weapon with a wait time like the rail gun

 

Not everything is rovio's thought @Miika said that the servers are over provisioned. It's prolly the other person

 

It seems like there is an excuse and protection from miika for EVERY complaint or anything brought forth it's getting tiring, just take the criticism and make adjustments

 

Excuse me for you not understanding how online games work

 

Oh?
And how am I missing how online gaming works....?

 

It's the same toxic people too, there was a thread were someone explained how he changed ships and went down in infamy quick and is now being docked victory spoils, if that's the case and he wasn't floating that's a real issue with the admin team, but of course the same posters immediately flame the person bringing a legitimate issue to discuss