When a player's mech overheats, damage should be caused.

I think not, as heat damage builds are generally speaking stronger than electric damage at the moment - closing down and losing an attack is a huge disadvantage as it is already.
Not saying heat is over powered, I am saying it would be over powered if it caused additional damage too.
Unless convinced otherwise, fraid its gonna be a 'no' from me.

In current conditions, I'd vote "no", but along with a change, it can be yes.
I'm voting tweak and here is my idea:
When a mech overheats, it will not shutdown automatically, but if that mech's heat is over the heat capacity at the end of his turn, it should damage the mech, depending of the difference between heat capacity and the current heat. This should also apply to the mechs overheat in the middle of its own turn...

This will make the battles even more strategical I think...

My idea is a double edged sword though...
If you end up overheating yourself in your own turn, you get damaged just because of it



Just paste that important stuff to somewhere you can keep it, like a new text file

I still think that you didn't get my idea quite well...
I'll try to elaborate it more...
Let's say you and I both have a lucifer with no modules that improves heat stats. And we're in the middle of a fight.
At some point,
You have 60 heat cumulated, I have 56. The distance betewen our mechs is 2. And it's my turn.
I use Blaster, which generates 15 heat for me, and damages you physically. My heat is now 71.
I now use Blue Lookout, which uses energy to deal energy damage and electric damage, so no change in heat stats.
My Flipmix drone fires, delivers you 10 heat damage. You now have 70 heat.
Now there is where the different scenarios happen:
First, the old way:
Your turn starts, overheating forces you to cooldown once. You use your second turn.
Second, the other way, according to my idea:
Before your turn starts, I get damaged because of overheating.
Than it becomes your turn.
You have no automatic shutdown and two choices:
1. You can shutdown in one of your turns and avoid overheat damage at the end of your turn.
2. You can ignore the overheating and get damaged when your turn ends and your drone fires.(if activated)
The only OP situation is when you overheat your opponent's mech enough to normally force it to shutdown twice, but still overheated when he does so, resulting with unavoidable overheat damage. Even in this situation, the opponent may choose to attack and get higher overheat damage.

If every weapon could cause heat when fired... What would the point of a heat shield be then?

Anyways, I am not a big fan of the idea so it gets a no from me.

Hate to end my thought there, but I have to go... A little busy today....