How about a new points system?

[kharille]

Since taking out a sectopod is way harder than taking out a floater.  Would it be possible to award numbers, maybe ranging from 10-300 for kills and a promotion eligibility system based on this?

Maybe some people might have ideas about how this should be composed.

[kevL]

am getting the impression Promotions are already biased on stats 

If not, stats + kills + a pt.system would be welcomed (aliens already have a "value" stat, btw -- it adds into the monthly Score, i believe)

[Danny]

Though killing a Sectopod is often a team effort... You can abuse it by having the rookie do the killing blow...

[xracer]

Though killing a Sectopod is often a team effort... You can abuse it by having the rookie do the killing blow...

They go down so easily with laser weapons as well as cyberdisc, however if you try using anything else!!! you are in for the long haul

[hstech]

Though killing a Sectopod is often a team effort... You can abuse it by having the rookie do the killing blow...

Solution would be simple, let any alien remember who gave it how much damage (and what type - as xracer said, taking a Sectopod down with a laser weapon is much easier than, say, with armor piercing weapon) and then after its death distribute the points accordingly.

Similarly these points should be awarded for STUNNING aliens. Given the fact that stunning them is way harder (especially with the stun rod) than killing them, it is quite questionable why the soldiers doing the stunning are not rewarded for it at all.

[Shoes]

I have code lying around for awarding medals to soldiers... I should really work on getting it up on github! I already had the infrastructure for awarding medals to soldiers who killed specific aliens; it probably wouldn't be hard to keep track of kills with which weapons.