Experience

[Suicide Junkie]

In stock, perhaps.
In my mod, if you were to go up against say a battlecruiser in your destroyer, it would take quite a lot of persistence to wear down their shields, if you could even dent them (Some ships have more regen than others).

[Alpha Kodiak]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Of course, if experience were based on damage, people could also "camp the shield regenerators" - find a weak ship that has shield regenerators (or repair bays) and repeatedly shoot at it but not enough to destroy it, then let it regenerate!

But I agree, even this would probably be better than the current system; it would take a LOT of patience to wait for shields to regenerate!

Actually, the ship would only be worth a certain amount of experience. The amount of damage you do would only be used to figure out your percentage of the experience.