Then those mobs that spawn in half dead and agro you would have no one with any cost at all on the kill until you yourself start shooting it. You'd then be able to loot it because you have the highest cost. However, that is not the case.
So at your job, on every payday you find you've been shorted $15. This goes on for three months. One payday, you get your paycheck, shorted $15 of course, and then they hand you a check for $1.38. Would you call that a bonus?
It's really hard to say because oil isn't just fuel for my vehicles. Unless I hit a IX or above, I throw that oil right into the fuel tanks and use it as rainy day funds. Want to wear my ped card down to the nub on FOMA? No problem, got my teleport fee in the tank.
Kill stealing needs to be defined first.
Here's an example I'm sure we've all seen...
You're in the MM FFA, you have a time limit, you need to drop as many mobs as you can in 45 minutes, There are a dozen other people in there as well. A couple jackasses think they are going to agro 6 mobs and...
You know...
There's a whole lot of useless ocean space for MA to play with, but nope. Where's the fun in it if it doesn't ruin entire areas for people.
Lots of places I used to mine and now never set foot in.
Don't lend anything to anyone ever without collateral... and then only if you are actually able to kill them in their sleep if they try to screw you.
Trust no one.
MISSED = You are not good enough to use the weapon you are using. And this is on top of the random dodges and evades.
EVADED/DODGED = Even though your gun is jammed right up the mob's ass when you pulled the trigger, it still managed to dodge your shot.
This is too difficult to understand...
This isn't about item drops and predicting if you are going to get a certain item. How can you get a claim if you can not drop a probe?
This is about mining and hit rate. Call it anecdotal if you want to, but my observations of planet mining have told me that hit-rate comes in waves. It has a...
Just tell them, "Sure. I don't want to die in non-lootable pvp, but I can't just hand over the claim, I need to extract it before I give it to you." Act scared when saying this... Make conversation while extracting.
Dig it out and then tell them to go fly a kite.