Killing blow rewards

[Adept]

The mechanics are indeed currently 100% encouraging kill-stealing. It's one of the few mis-steps from the fine Frontier devs. I hope they'll reconsider it over time. There are such nice plans for reducing griefing and ill feeling, and the "last hit" mechanism is nothing short of encouraging attery.

 

[delnelrimnim]

Unfortunately yes. FD have stated that they like the competitive spirit that it encourages. As with everything, this may change.

This is utterly bad game desing. EVERY MMO which came out in the last decade identified this mechanic as bad design and avoided it. People who want the competative spirit, can run off an do PvP in this game on one of the million other 'compatative' PVP ead game out there.
The only thing, this mechanic encourages is being a , boosting in the line of fire like a blind madman to steel the kill, and saying thankyou afterwards by shooting you, for the 300credits bounty you most likely got from hitting that idiot.