=======Overheating=======
Overheating your modules increases their performance for a short amount of time. This makes a real difference in a few situations:
  * Improving your speed for getting to your anchoring position
  * Improving your DPS for winning contests (extremely important)
  * Improving your tank when targeted by substantial numbers of Sansha
  * For logistics: saving pilots who dip low into shields/armour by temporarily increasing the HP repaired per second.

=====Skills=====
There are multiple skills that help with overheating modules. They reduce damage, increase repair abilities and decrease repair costs. Getting each of these skills to level 4 should be a priority.
^Skill             ^Recommended Level^Effect                                                               ^
|Thermodynamics    |4/5                |Skill required for overheating, reduces heat damage by 5% per level.|
|Nanite Operation  |4                |5% reduction in nanite repair paste consumption per level.          |
|Nanite Interfacing|4                |20% increase in damaged module repair amount per second.            |

=====When Should I Overheat?=====
Any time your FC specifies, you should overheat. In addition, there are times when you should overheat without being prompted, these include:

  * Overheating **Adaptive Invulnerability Fields** - If you take full agro in a TCRC or on the final wave of an NRF, you should overheat your invuls to temporarily improve your tank and improve your survivability.
  * Overheating your **MWD** - In certain situations, you may want to get to anchor positions faster, such as when you take a gate and need to catch up with the fleet.
  * Overheating your **Shield Reps** (Logistics only) - If the person you are trying to keep alive is taking lots of damage, and they need to be kept alive long enough for the DPS ships to kill some rats.

=====Basic Mechanics of Overheating=====
Overheating is a complex mechanic with a lot of weird behaviour, just keep the following things in mind to be successful:
  * Whenever you overheat a module, there is a random chance that heat damage will occur at the end of its cycle.
  * The longer you overheat something, the higher the chance there is that it will take heat damage.
  * Heat damage can affect both the module itself and adjacent modules in the same rack (if your MWD has an invul on either side, all 3 have a chance of taking damage when you overheat the MWD).
  * By turning heat on for a number of cycles and then off for a cycle you can give time for the modules to "cool down" between the heat cycles. For example, on a TCRC contest you may hear the FC ask for Vindicators/Nightmares to heat "3 cycles on, 1 cycle off". This means you turn your overheat on for 3 cycles of the module, then leave it off for 1 cycle to cool down, then back on and repeat.
  * Heat damage occurs at the end of a module's cycle.