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--- guides:overheating [2016/08/04 00:44]
nyxviliana [Mechanics of Overheating]
+++ guides:overheating [2016/12/08 17:14] (current)
Aygo Swagtomo
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-=======Overloading=======
+=======Overheating=======
-Overloading your modules increases their performance for a amount of short time. This is often the difference between winning contests, and keeping our ships alive who take full aggro.
+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.
+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                |Skill required for overheating, reduces heat damage by 5% per level.|
+|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?=====
+=====When Should I Overheat?=====
-You will often be asked by your FC to overheat your modules, but there are certain situations where you may choose to overheat your modules as well:
+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 aggro, in certain sites you may need to increase your shield tank long enough for the logi to start giving you shield.
-  * Overheating your **MWD** - In certain situations you may want to get to anchor positions faster such as when you are out of position or if you want to get to a target faster for a contest.
-  * Overheating your **Guns** - to apply more DPS to your targets:
-      * To clear rats on a preload TCRC
-      * To kill the target before downtime
-      * To apply more DPS than another fleet in a contest
-  * Overheating your **Shield Reps** - 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.
+  * 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.
-=====Mechanics of Overheating=====
+=====Basic Mechanics of Overheating=====
-Each module has a set of specifications that explains how the module will preform when overheated:
+Overheating is a complex mechanic with a lot of weird behaviour, just keep the following things in mind to be successful:
-  * Overheat bonus - The bonus effect applied to the module when it is overheated.
+  * Whenever you overheat a module, there is a random chance that heat damage will occur at the end of its cycle.
-  * Overheat damage - The amount of damage applied for each cycle
+  * The longer you overheat something, the higher the chance there is that it will take heat damage.
-For example if a **Core X-Type 500MN Microwarpdrive** is overheated it will gain 50% speed bonus and take a base of 6.15HP per heat damage cycle.
+  * 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.
-Every cycle that a module is overloaded it may takes heat damage, the items on each side of that module might also takes heat damage. For example;
-<WRAP group>
-<WRAP  column 20%>
-If I was to overheat the Microwarpdrive, it would gain heat damage as would the web and the tracking computer.
-This is because the web and tracking computer are next to the prop mod.
-Heat damage is also be divided in to three levels, low, medium, high power resistances.
-If you overheat a high powered item such as a gun you gain more heat on your high power resistance. The higher the level of heat the more likely it is to cause your guns to take damage.
-</WRAP>
-<WRAP column 70%>
-{{:guides:ship-bonus.gif|}}
-</WRAP>
-</WRAP>
-=====Tips & Tricks=====

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