I'd like to alter that suggestion to include different categories into Leaderboards like "hacks completed", "Mates revived" etc. in a way no game known to me has done before:

Take all possible ways to recieve any kind of points and sort them into categories. Those categories are then displayed on the leaderboard with the sum of points recieved by performing whatever is in the category.

Some examples:

Best Invaders
- Sucessfully taken over planets
- Number of hacks on mission targets regarding planet takeovers (since there's alot of hacking that has nothing to do with invading or mission targets)
- Number of orbital strikes ordered

Best Teamplay
- Killassists
- hackassists
- ammunition given to other players
- reviving other players
- doing what squad/team commander orders (highly rewarded since this usually doesnt happen)
- repairs done

Best defenders
- Number of hacks on mission targets regarding planet takeovers while on defensive side
- Kills (usually defenders have to decrease the attackers spawning tickets to win, therefore kills fall in this category)
- Damage done personally to invading MCCs (by usuage of tanks or stationary guns)

Best pilots
- tank kills/assist & driving assists
- number of vehicles summoned
- number of vehicles that can be piloted due to skills

going on as you can imagine. What counts into the categories is public. The exact stats at each field are not. The only thing others see is the summed up amount of points in the category. This way EVE Pilots can hire mercs in a far more precise way depending on their needs or making business deals with skilled vehicle pilots for example. Apart from that Mercs can only try to achieve a high rank on the leaderboard by playing wise and with his team.

EDIT:


It does. Have you never seen all those fake killmails? Often kills are so extremely unlikely that I dont even trust that "API checked" writing. Nobody is so stupid to carry around a hundred PLEX and blueprint originals worth of several hundred billion ISK in a noobship through enemy terretory in zero space. Just for sake of someone laughin his ass of at an awesome imaginary kill. Which is the closes thing to cheating eve online allows. Pls dont refer to this further since it get's offtopic otherwise.