Why are scores so important to everyone?

[Shadowcorp]

1- Assists. to get nothing for hammering a target and having one of your wingmen take the the kill is silly. I'm pretty sure pilots count assist just like they do kills
2- Friendly fire kills. the pilot killed by friendly fire should not lose a point.
3- some explanation of how the ranking work or the formula the leaderboard works by would be nice

But to address what you guys have been saying I would be lying if if said the score boards were not important to me. However theres only one that i really care about the others are just for fun, I'm competitive what can i say. When i have a bad game i stop playing and go play another game