# Ok what happened to tracking stat for turrets?

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**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-tracking-stat-for-turrets/180563 "2019-08-06T06:10:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Veryez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/veryez/32/508712_2.png) [@Veryez](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Veryez)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-tracking-stat-for-turrets/180563/10 "2019-08-06T18:28:03Z")

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> [@Anderson\_Geten](#):
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> No you could not. You believing you could, was a mistake. Without the information of target signature, and your own turrets signature, the data you had were meaningless.
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> Otherwise : nothing changed in the mechanism. At all. The only number that changed is, that all turret signature was set to 40 000 and the tracking changed accordingly.
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> how to get that back ?  
> for small turrets, multiply your tracking by 1000.  
> for medium, by 325.  
> for large, by 100.
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> And now you have your old tracking, which is completely useless but whatever.

Actually it’s not useless. Most of the time, of the three variables you can only change 1. By manual piloting, you were able to quickly see if you were lowering you’re targets angular velocity enough to allow your guns to track. You couldn’t change your guns, nor your targets signature (since for most of it’s life Target painters were considered the most useless form of ew - now ecm has that title) so the old tracking number gave you instant feedback on the results of your actions - it’s why many of us have angular velocity selected as an overview column.

While I agree multiplying by 1000 or 100 is child’s play, I don’t have my x325 tables memorized. While I agree the new number makes is very easy to compare guns. It does not directly tell me if my 425’s can track that frigate as we’re both maneuvering (we now use, “if I get down to this…”). It doesn’t matter in the end, what’s done is done. I’m sure the OP will learn the new system.

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