Is this what they meant by "kill stealing" ? xD

^^^^^ This. If my teammates are legitimately working over an enemy with me and knocking off hit points, I don't care who gets the kill as long as we're working together to take them out as quickly as possible. There are matches where I dealt out the most damage, got no kills, but if everyone was legitimately trying to dish out damage as quickly as they could, then I had no complaints.

But the one guy that drives me nuts, he sees you going after one enemy in particular so he follows behind you. All of the damage on an enemy ship is flashing orange, your teammate isn't shooting at all (if he's at least attacking and missing, I give him credit for trying), he's waiting. In the meantime you're the target because you're in front, and you're taking unnecessary additional damage, because that enemy isn't getting knocked out as quickly as he could be. Finally, you've got that enemy ship whittled down, and your 'teammate' then fires the kill shot. Even worse its a close match, you end up getting killed off and losing, then you wonder if all of the hit points that you lost while your teammate waited would have made the difference in the end.

 

Very valid point. I think kills may figure into the star algorithm in some way maybe like an "if... then" statement where they don't always contribute to stars but they can if certain conditions are met.

But I'm just completely speculating about that because thats how I might do it at a glance but I bet whatever the algorithm is it seems pretty cool and well thought out.

 

You and me both xD

 

Cyn! I'm sorry that happened that sounds like a STRAIGHT UP troll maneuver! Not cool.

 

HA! If I was at my PC rn I would put a repair box on top of that baby!

 

Changed my mind. Kill stealing is despicable!
I was in a glorious 1v1 battle with a shooter, when a fixer came in to fix and make it a 2v1.
I stunned the shooter early it was one blast cannon away from sinking. Hit the fixer, and was about to sink it when the the ground gets those big green circles. A mortar took them both out.

Terrible cowardly act, that might've kept me from being sunk, one I would've done, but still horrible