Last night me and Fatty were playing and after less than two minutes I had 24 team points and Fatty had, I think, 15. We only capped 1 or two points and killed maybe one player. Is this because I was leader that I got all these points? If so, too bad it doesn't add to the total score.

yeah I noticed the team score is always higher than your global score, wonder how the scoring works in this game.

The point system in the beta doesn't work right, so don't go by it. I know kills are 1 point thought. I will see if I can find a more concrete list.

Here is something that I didn't know that is good for those of us that like to collect awards/ribbons/badges.

 

The scoring within every round will still be the most common way to earn points in order to go up in rank. The award system is the other. Badges, ribbons and pins now all have experience points connected to them. The harder an award is to get, the higher the experience point. With this in mind a player that works on their awards can advance in rank slightly faster.

Here is something that I didn't know that is good for those of us that like to collect awards/ribbons/badges.

 

The scoring within every round will still be the most common way to earn points in order to go up in rank. The award system is the other. Badges, ribbons and pins now all have experience points connected to them. The harder an award is to get, the higher the experience point. With this in mind a player that works on their awards can advance in rank slightly faster.

Now that's something they should have done in BF2. Giving the awards something more then just bragging rights also gives the player more of a desire to actually try and get them.

Another thing

 

attlefield 2142 introduces a new system, the Career Points. The global score is what everyone is used to from Battlefield 2, all the points you make by kills, team actions and capturing points. These have been altered a bit (see below). New is the career points.

 

Career points are based on global score. So if you make 10 global score in a round, that counts towards your career points. On top of that come the awards. Each award (with the exception of medals) give you additional career points. As ribbons and badges can only be gotten once, the pins get a very important position here. You can get most pins multiple times in one round, which can increase your career points extremely.

 

Now why are there two different scores?

 

Your rank is depending on the career points, not on your global score. So if you make 10 points by normal playing as global score, and get an award worth 10 career points, you will have a total of 20 careeer points from that round. This way your rank will increase a lot faster (and get you more unlocks) if you get the awards.

hmmm interesting, it seems like they actually put some thought into it this time