Knockdowns and damage give RP in ranked

@kellanammann 

That suggestion would literally make the incentives 1000 times stronger for people in ranked to just grab a Charge rifle or another sniper and just trade dmg on long (safe) range and never push and actually go for the squad wipe.  Knocking an enemy gives you a significant advantage which you and your team may or may not be able capitalize on. A knock is NOTHING if you dont do something with it and its exactly the same for just dealing dmg. It means, and SHOULD mean nothing unless you can convert the dmg dealt to a kill.

And yes, sometimes you get a bit unlucky with the kill/assist RP system but I say that people who says this is a huge problem just confidently forget all the times they get a free assist from just one R99 bullet, or a free kill when third partying another team. The current assist timer is actually super generous and in the long run will the huge dmg dealers also get a much, much faster RP gain than the small dmg dealers in the same team.

@Balladalidila

I understand your thought process completely bro trust me, but what if there's a cap to the damage that grants RP and you get a placement bonus based on the most damage done in your squad, and a smaller one for 2nd most? A knock isn't "worth nothing unless you capitalize on it". You just capitalized. It's worth nothing if your teammates don't capitalize on their end and pull their own weight. The ranking system has to be slightly inaccurate because of this. They gave people knockdown shields because they wanted make gunfights happen quickly. If you push on your own that's another story. If you take ranked seriously you should be communicating with teammates and coordinating but those randoms annoy tf out of me. For that I'd say there could be a requirement for a minimum distance of 30 to 40m or so from teammates and enemies to get damage bonuses, and that would fix range-camping too. Even though that's really not a viable strat since you barely fight at long range or if you do people push the first knockdown a vast majority of the time. Octane, Pathfinder, Loba, Horizon, Wraith, and sometimes Bangalore if your team fires at her all have really quick and/or safe pushing potential. I do also understand how did just pull your weight and I see a lack of reward for doing exactly what you're supposed to do and then some while your team can't, at sheild and health disadvantage. You had to deal with at least 1 whole other potentially healed guy. What if your tm8 gets knocked super fast and dude Stims, Jump Pads, Grapples, Ziplines, Gravity Lifts, Voidjumps, Burglar's Best Friends, Smoke Launchers or Double Times their way to you and you definitely can't shield batt, let alone cell/syringe. I'm out here capitalizing man I'm CAPS LOCK BRO AND MY TEAMMATES lowercase af lmao. It's definitely better for the pace of this game.

@kellanammann Nope and @Balladalidila is right, there would be way to much damage farming going on.

Any player worth their weight can climb to plat and any decent player can get to diamond solo. This can be done without communicating and just playing off your team, even if they're completely useless. That's on you. Climbing diamond to masters/pred will take good communication, knowing when to push and sharing that information with your team.

Ranked does need a whole rework in how they distribute RP but RP for damage most definitely this isn't it. Also i wouldn't expect much change in the future as they already stated they're reasonably happy with the current system.

Ehh ranked system with how the points are done is fine. Those who cant finish their kills for rp are the ones who sit back in narnia and wanna snipe. Those of us who push to kill earn our rp because we followed through to get the kill and assists. Giving rp for damage and knocks would be a joke. A complete joke. Follow through with your kills/damage. 8 seasons now we have done ranked with kills and assists. No need to change it because some are scared to actually engage fights in ranked. Ranked is suppose to be hard not handing you the cake to easily advance.