For the lulz. For the salty tears on the forums. For the rage quits. For the infamy. Plenty of reasons. You may not like them, but they are legitimate and within the game mechanics. And it makes some people feel better about themselves. It's called projection, and it's normal to do if you're in pain. And VERY common in PvP games.
Fly safe bud.
May have to do with the game itself also, flying around in an entire galaxy, with spaceships in great numbers, makes it somewhat impersonal.
I remember playing Red Dead Redemption online and sometimes you'd just meet a player riding along a desert trail, he'd tip his hat and say "Howdy" as we passed each other.
Of course others started shooting at you from a mile away, but since there were generally few players on a single map some thought was given to upsetting any single one.
Once I parked my character on spawn point, in the middle of field somewhere since I had something else to do, some guy found me and kept riding circles around me killing me over and over.
I watched him while going about my business, then resumed my place at the controls and waited for him to come around again, I drew, rolled and shot him off the zebra he was riding.
I had an headset lying around and could listen in on his conversation - he shouted at some of his mates that were doing missions nearby "The B**** killed me, .." and pretty soon I had an entire posse after me that chased me all the way to Mexico, I had to join a gang myself to get rid of them
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