I support this applied to infantry vs infantry fighting too. Reward the support gunners for keeping the enemies head down.

I'm pretty sure I've gotten points for assisting on vehicle kills. Admittedly, it's vastly less than you'd get for landing the killing blow, since you don't get any points for the deaths of the occupants.

I don't like the idea of this being applied to infantry. You'll get rewarded when you or someone else kills them.

Against a tank? Yes, those guys can be tough to take down on your own unless you've skilled into high AV gear, but even with low level AV gear you can make one back off of the assault and lick its wounds, that's an AV guy doing their job so they should be rewarded for it.

Problem: The only way for AV players to get WP from doing their job (as opposed to hacking or pretending to be assaults) is to kill vehicles.

Part of the reason that AVers are so dead-set on solo-killing vehicles is because THAT is the only way for AV players to get rewarded. No killshot, no rewards. None. Nada.

If there was some better WP reward for AV other than killshots, that would fix a lot of the metagame balance issue.

I propose an across the board 50 WP for every 2000 HP of damage any player inflicts. The game is now tracking our total damage output, so that should not be a technical obstacle.

For AVers: Pushing vehicles around the map without killing them (arguably our job) would now be rewarding in itself (for SP and ISK). That 50WP per 2000 HP would also mean that the effective rewards for killing Advanced vehicles would be more commensurate with the challenge.

For everyone else: The 50WP per 2000 HP means that players who are doing a lot of assistive shooting but rarely dropping anyone outright are getting rewarded for doing their job as well. It encourages team play and focusing fire because even if you don't get the Kill or the Kill Assist, you are earning towards a WP award.