@Onesimus

Do I sound like that? Well, I post diaries all the time. I've been doing this since closed beta and I intend to keep doing this until there is nothing left to talk about which will be a very long time because most of my diaries are about what I have done along with tidbits of information on what I have researched on for others to learn from. Every now and then I even post my misadventures like how I died so many times that I often don't even look at my scores whenever I end up in a very bad match. My diaries are also meant to encourage others into Nova Knifing and so far there are more people knifing than I thought. Every few matches I would encounter at least one other knifer who is in the opposing side.

Some Nova Knifers shanked me yesterday I got into a match with them again, so I got out my scrambler pistol and smacked 2 of them to death with it

The damage bonus only comes into play when you upgrade proficiency or use minmitar suit, aur knives should have no effect on this, because that skill only decreases charge time. And maybe you should test these in corp battles, who knows, an errant sniper could have interfered with your experiment.