When a player fires a turret from inside the vehicle and kills/damages another unit, the object responsible for the kill can be:

1. firer (when the firer is the only person in the vehicle)
2. vehicle sometimes (when the firer is the only person in the vehicle for some classes e.g. Hunter HMG variant but not for Ghosthawk)
3. effectiveCommander of the vehicle (when there is an effectiveCommander in the vehicle)

This adversely affects two aspects of MP gameplay:

1. scoring i.e. who gets the kill
2. finding the responsible party (killer or damager) via Killed and HandleDamage event handlers

This makes it hard to reward or punish (team-killers) when they are using vehicles to shoot others.

Many of the existing approaches to this problem are network-intensive i.e. publicVariable and setVariable with public broadcast parameter set to true.