In some situations, yes, this seems unfair. But in the situations where the kill could not have been gotten without the actions of the Regulus or the Erebus (or anyone else that only got the last hit in), they deserve credit for that kill. Be happy that this game incorporates assists with rewards; many games do not.

I think its already money spent.

Yeah, I really don't agree with this.  If you did 90% of the damage to someone, and they get away, should you still get a kill? Obviously not, they didn't DIE. The person getting the final shot should get the kill... you cannot just assume the target would have died anyway.

Further more, this is a game about team play, why bother begrudging a teammate something that was done for the entire team.  Does that 'voice of god' guy that says "GODLIKE!" mean that much to you?

Alright, so have it be person who did the most damage and hit in the last x seconds then, or maybe person who did the most damage and was in attack range when they died or something, it's incredibly annoying to have an enemy you did all the damage too get killed by someone else right before you would kill them and get an assist. If you want to award credit to people who got a kill that would otherwise have been missed that's fine, but when it's clearly within the ability of one person to finish off someone who they've done majority damage too and someone else takes the kill they shouldn't get 2x the gold for that.

Good points here. 

DOTA was always about getting the finishing blow and i pretty much agree with it as it adds a desperation factor in with the need to finish someone off.

That being said, blatant killstealers can GF'd and have no place in my games.

At least people DO get assists though it makes me wonder, do you get awarded an exist if say Regulus has just made a kill and you as Sedna or Queen of thorns have just shielded/healed him in order for him to stay alive long enough to make the kill? OR do you have to have done some kind of damage to the target? If you dont get an assist for the heal/shield then imo you totally should, but then again that'd also be potential for exploit and total gold ezmode - being nothing but a shield or healbot and getting over rewarded.

Forget that!

lul i thought it was a team game :K

Yes. You get an award for the most assists.

There's an award for the most flags capped as well. Naturally you're going to have less experience and kills if you spend the majority of your time flag capping. Balance your priorities, and cap flags after you kill the enemy.

Probably true.

There is an award for citadel upgrades as well. If you spend most of your time killing people you'll probably get the kills, kill streak and gold awards. If you play as the way you described you'll probably get the citadel upgrade, flag and assist awards. In reality you'd get more favor, since the gold award is only worth 10 favor while the others are worth 15.

A lot of times you wouldn't get the kill if regulus didn't snipe or erebus didn't swarm in. The game is a lot more about suprise attacks than simply being able to out last your enemy.

Personally...I'm just glad to see the enemy DG die. As long as my team gets the gold, I dont get too frustrated.

I really dont see the problem with its current implimentation.  Assists are just as meaningful as kills, most people know that.  Perhaps the reward gold balance could change a little?  I dont know, by the same token if you cared that much about getting the gold yourself instead of being happy it's going to the team, you dont want someone coming in taking one swing and getting assist gold instead of all to you.  As I said, I think the current implementation is fine.

I'd rather see kills get awarded to players if say a tower/grunt gets the final shot, as was changed in DotA (in particular, first blood going to a player if they do majority damage to a demigod despite a tower getting final hit).  I can lose killing blows to allies without battering an eyelid, but losing them to a towers' tiny snipes makes me sadfays.

In a game I was playing, a level 6 sedna was killed by a basic melee creep. A BASIC MELEE CREEP.

That annoyed me. It was a hilarious waste of potential gold.