1+20+10 is a hard calculation?
Seriously, thats how it's calculated.

Yeah, thats pretty much right. Crit hit chance adds, not multiplies. Also, if you're invisible when you shoot, you get an additional 5% chance of critting.

add.

This is a bloody serious issue. Admin response?

My guess? Changing the vis rates didn't work entirely as expected so they continued into other methods. Nerfing the PSS itself didn't work so now they have nerfed all range projectile weapons. To bad its makes building a Stygian Fist, Merc Mag, or other like weapons almost useless as I can get better DPS out of a Laser or other Beam weapon and minor crit additions. Some stats should be changed on them to balance them against short range projectile weapons such as the ZHT, Lion Quick Snap, and the like if this change should stay in. As is you can already get more DPS out of a Sniper by turning him into a Zerker. I know more then a handful of upper tier Snipers have gone MF and farm things with general ease. ~edited out~

In that case, its probably balanced. People should play a style because they like it, not because one is better than the other!

I will consider it a bug until I get confirmation from dev/admin it is intended change and I have failed to find such info on the forum so far.

I don't think I will ever reset my sniper to something else but I'm really getting tired of all the anti-sniper agenda. I might stop playing my sniper just for the time all the nerfs are applied so I can safely design my new setup.

aint it supposed to be the opposite, more range more damage less range less damage..?

Yup.

Bump. No comment from devs?

my guess, without reading what anyone else has written: you're shooting an AI with crit damage resists and getting triple, double, and single crits respectively with those damages.
If you dont believe theres such a thing as crit damage resist, try mf bigger greens, they have it. As do all UZ bosses. Oly bosses have only crit chance resist thankfully, its slightly less broken.
If you've never seen double and triple crits, aug for crit chance on a ship with decent rof and just start shooting something, watch them fly by.

oh and yes, if they have crit damage resistance its annoying that it still says 150% despite clearly being more like 20%

This has already been confirmed as a bug and Jeff has promised to get a fix in soon. I will have to investigate your claim that there is such thing as crit damage resist though.

Not making sense. His hits were scaling down... unless the AI had several of these crit resisters, it isn't explained.

By the way, /showdamage indicates i still get the same critical hit strength against BGs as I do against all other AI, so this would tell me that they don't have a special crit damage resist.