Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think heat made the game a little more interesting and separated good pilots from bad ones. Micro-managing heat on your modules is a thing you need experience for, not books.

You cannot buy that experience and the client shall not accommodate us for mis-handling heat. It is one of the only things left where currency will not solve a problem.

I lost ships because I off-lined a crucial module at the worst time possible, so should you.

With time, I was able to predict very precisely when to turn off heat, so modules aren't getting off-lined or if they could handle one more cycle.

Veto!

I would contend that a failure to micromanage correctly will result in a burnt out module, and that having heat automatically turn off makes it easier for the player in stressful situations.

In PVE, for example, I only ever pulse my shield booster when I need it. Given the absolutely trivial amount of heat, I often don't take any damage at all. Since it's PVE, there's no stress.

In PVP, there can be lots of stress on the pilot, and if they're stressed they forget things. Like turning the heat off on their module. Not such a huge deal with shield emitters because those things can run heated forever (or at least, it feels like it!) but for something like guns, leaving them heated will quickly burn them out. Or a prop mod.

In summary, remembering whether it is on or off will always be a burden for the pilot. If you're in a rhythm of constantly heating a module before you use it, you won't forget to heat it. If it's something you don't automatically heat, then it is easy to argue that you might have more to micromanage by turning the heat off again.

My point was the opposite. That the micro-management skills would be more greatly taxed by having to remember to turn off the heat. If you're used to heating a module, especially one you pulse, you'll do it without even thinking.

If you're not used to heating a module, you could easily forget to turn the heat off. If the heat helpfully turns off for you, you're doing less micromanagement, while at the same time making ratting even more annoying.

I never said I need to heat. I said I heated. Heated shield boosters rep more, faster. It's more efficient, and although I'd not call myself OCD, it's kind of an OCD thing. Given the utter lack of penalty for pulsing a heated repper, why not?

Edit:
Another use case for when you'd always overheat is ancillary reppers. No reason not to. By the time you burn anything out, you'll have chewed through an entire cargo hold of charges.