One more question Herr Bert,
2) Player vs. Player Kills: Governments and merchants pay off pirates they think are strong. No one pays a wimp to leave them alone. Each kill your cartel makes proves the point that you are a force to be reckoned with. Each time you kill a player in an opposing cartel, post in the kills thread the player you killed and the ship(s) he was flying. That economic costs of that ship(s) will be added to a running total for your cartel. Each point is worth one Victory Point.
Not sure what you mean by the prestige cost of the ships. Is this the purchase price? the BPV?, or the Federation and Empire style economic points?
I surely hope it is not the prestige cost as these are way too high. Even the BPV might be too high as well unless you deduct some points for PvP loses, otherwise we might see some cartels throw themselves at each other time after time and run up huge totals. This really threw off the balance of the KCW server. On the other hand economic points ala Fed and Empire may be too low. Perhaps the best way would be to use the BPV but have losses deducted from wins, so that only net gains in VCs be counted in this area. This would also help a smaller cartel with a good PvP record who might have a high percentage of wins but too few pilots to rack up large kill numbers that other houses with worse percentages might be able to achieve. Not sure whether you'd want to deal with Net loses or not, however.
Anyhow, anyway is fine, just want to know the system.
Likely you already have a system worked out and thats fine, just expressing some concerns and wanting to know what system was being used and if losses were counted as well as wins.