I've noticed this several times now. It appears that the game is crediting undeserved pk asssists to 'nil' players.

For instance, I just played the Deneb O4 Medium mission and was the only active player involved the whole time I was engaged in it. Apparently an Itani named Minka took the mission briefly at some point (the mission was almost 10 1/2 hours- really what is the point of the mission timer). When I checked the stats, both in my mission log and in the Deneb Stats Minka is credited with a PK assist.

I think we need to hear Minka's side of the story before judgement can be made.

I think Minka's side of the story is best told by my lack of pk's. :p

It looks like a PK assist would be counted if a player damages theirself and then they die through other means. We'll be fixing that.
Thanks.

I'm not sure if this is related or the cause of my original post. However, if you check today's medium for G4, you'll find that I have 4 PK assists myself that did not occur in the sector. I took the mission and met up with Bluewall raising a ruckus in Geira O4. I received a message pk assist when he died, but when I scored the kill I got a message that kills only count in the sector. I want my PK documented into the Deneb stats!

... which leads into my next concern which will be posted in another thread as soon as I sort out where to put it...

Thanks for the report, Fluffy. You're not meant to get rewards/credit for anything outside the mission sector - it's exploitable otherwise. I just applied that policy to the assist as well, so it will be consistent after our next server update.