As a mediocre Lockdown player, I see how this could possibly change how most games are played, so I will support it. I myself would preferably change damage altogether to just "Deaths" to remove that impediment to the true and original goal of Lockdown.

Now I will receive hate from the Professional LD Community. Oh well, come at me.

What I see a kill counter is just a more strict Damage Count with a player having to fully commit in defeating a player rather than just "Slap-n'-Run-as-Fast-as-You-Can".

Another Thread? One of yours from the Coliseum Folder?

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Swift Response. <3

I suppose you opted for 3 meters because that way you don't have to convert damage to caps or caps to damage etc, so the 3 meters might be easier to implement. But I think with 3 meters, the new aim will be not to break 25k/30K/40K damage, instead, new records will be about getting 50% or 75% (or even more) of damage done in a game.

1 meter that measures your contribution to the team (relative) or simply a number that says how much you contributed (absolute) would be ideal, but it would require the developers to figure out a ratio that seems acceptable. I would propose the following parameters for such a score or meter:
"Damage"
"Time spent decapping or capping capture points" (caps)
"Damage dealt on a capture point that your team controls" (defends)

Those are essentially the same as damage, caps and defends. Except they also factor in when someone neutralizes points, instead of favoring people who will snatch the cap at 90% capped. As for defends, it's pretty much the same, except now it's not just the person who gets the kill that gets a better score. This will require conversion of the individual parameters into 1 global score though, so the developers would have to make a formula for that. An example of this formula could be:
("Damage")+("Time in milliseconds")/20+("damage from defending")*0.5 = Score

-> neutralizing a point takes about 10 seconds solo I estimate, so neutralizing and then capping 1 point on your own would take 20 seconds and reward you with 1000 points. Damage dealt on a capture point would basically be worth 50% more than regular damage (it gets added to regular damage and 50% gets added to your defends score).

So in short: I like your meters idea, but I think what you really want is a way to get caps to be valued more. 3 meters will still have the damage farmers looking only at the damage meter. So I think we need a global score (but that requires conversion of the separate values) which can be either a number or a meter (I love the meters, but a number would work just fine since the damage/caps/defends/etc would be encrypted anyway)

EDIT: on second thought, even with the global score thing, a meter might be better because it takes away the difference between games. You might get 31500 global score in one game (calculated with the formula of the developers choice) but contribute more to your team in another game where you only get 24170. A meter bypasses that

Your proposed altercations... I as well agree with your meter system (although I wonder how the developers could differentiate capping if there is a hostile player denying capturing by intruding). I still have not seen real redressing on the issue of damage, as people would still go for the highest damage percentage on their team (or perhaps I have overlooked a mentioned solution).

Your response to my idea of deaths make good sense and now I retract that idea - Perhaps I have been playing Recon for far too long.