Or make it so the points split into to percentage of who has the WP.

I dissagree with this though it is a good idea.

My reasoning is that if there are three other people that get +25 assists then if you kill 7 people (5 infantry and two in the tank) and a tank then the math flows like this: (7*50)+150+3(25*7)+(3*70)=1235 WP
That is halfway to the next OB . I was here when people could farm OB and I don't want to see that again.

I dissagree with this though it is a good idea.

My reasoning is that if there are three other people that get +25 assists then if you kill 7 people (5 infantry and two in the tank) and a tank then the math flows like this: (7*50)+150+3(25*7)+(3*70)=1235 WP
That is halfway to the next OB . I was here when people could farm OB and I don't want to see that again.

I was going to say that!

But there is a solution, a compromise if you will!

Banked WP.

Your Squad gets "banked WP", WP that is inactive (doesn't count towards an OB) that goes onto the scoreboard at the end of the match, granting more SP and better leaderboard standings, kapish?

But how would that work? and what would make something become banked wp instead of normal wp? it would also make a liar of the leaderboard

Basically, WP from an orbital doesn't count towards an orbital, it just becomes WP you've earned. It's WP, but WP that has no progress towards an OB, because it was made from an OB.

so we basically end up with a system recording two different types of WP. This would just add an unnecessary layer to the WP mechanics and the scoreboard, because you would have to add another category in the scoreboard to differentiate between the two types.

hmm, well think of it like ghost addition.

We currently have the system that counts WP of squad for OBs and the individual WP tracking.
Here's my hypothetical situation:
OB happens, five kills, to a full squad.

Individual WP tracking: 50X5, 25X5, 25X5, 25X5
Squad WP tracking: N/A

Basically WP counting up to Orbital gets bypassed so that the only thing that increases is individual WP.
OB Counting is just a cyclic additive, where it resets when it gets to 2500 and just counts back up to it, so I'm just thinking that WP gets silently categorized by weapon: Orbital Strike and Everything else.

+1

I was going to make a thread for this last week. I must have gotten distracted. This should have been the case from the start. When I roll with my corp/alliance mates I'm almost always the Squad Leader. And though I love absolutely destroying the enemy with Orbitals, I think I shouldn't be the only one reaping the reward from it. Sure I was the one who fired it and chose the location but I couldn't have done any of it without my squad. A kill assist per kill to each squad mate would be the best way to alter the reward system.