Ahh damage doesn't accurately reflect the usefulness of a DG in every kill anyway - what if you are sedna and playing support healing teammates?  Splitting the ratio by damage would make it much worse for support DG's.

Don't forget this is a team game, and DG's on your team CAN actually buy items and give them to you.  Personally i think there should be a way to give gold to allies because of this anyway.

Currently the method highly encourages team play, where as the method you speak of would greatly hinder anyone playing as support and create the extremely irritating complaints of 'team killing' more often than usual.   I understand the concern however...imagine you're playing healing sedna or bubbling queen of thorns, you don't deal nearly as much damage but negative defense heals/bubbles.   I find it irritating enough that there isn't like overall 'healing' done at the end of the match.  

 I believe the best suggestion would simply be to split the gold gain to an entire team in general as it is a 'team'.

I.E. buying citadel upgrades does not help you deal damage but can be hugely beneficial to the team....destroying towers/pushing lanes/capturing flags. 

Either make it a complete split or keep it as is, I believe that would be far more beneficial to the game and environment when playing as apposed to your idea.

I get enough 'don't kill steal' business as is even when the overall gold total is higher for a team when everyone hits them as far as I'm aware, which you cite. 

I'd rather see less OMG I'M the GREATEST EVAR I deal the most damage to enemy DGs!   and more....team play.

YOu know what would be kinda funny?

You finally kill that dude who never dies, and another player get ALL the gold because he was sparring with him for the first 15 minutes of the match.

That'd show you up.

Yes, damage is not all. Ideally I would also include healing done, but that can be much more situational than damage. I don't care about more people hitting him and getting gold, I care that I end up with a crappy KDR and no gold, even though I'm the one doing all the work.

No, it would be fine by me. He's the one who spent 15 minutes sparring, not you.

I thought this was a team game if you don't like sharing play 1 v 1. I am one of those sniping regulus occasionally and if I steal A kill I usually get a citadel upgrade to help the TEAM.

You are a fantastic teammate.

I also find it very annoying when I'm playing a melee DG and I spend a lot of time getting an enemy down to 10% health, and just as I was about to kill them, some TB pops a fireball, or a Regulus snipes and they get like 1800 gold when I get 600. Sure we got the kill, but the gold should have been split better than that, perhaps 50/50. It's also very annoying since many Regulus players are only interested in saving up for their mage slayer and Ashkandor, and don't contribute squat to the citadel, leaving you to do it, even though you have much less gold, despite dealing more damage. Then you're gimped later on.

The point about healing is not valid, because Sedna already has the advantage of being able to heal for large amounts, so if she got no gold for healing an ally who was able to kill an enemy DG, that's just the price you pay for the advantage you have. Not to mention it's perfectly possible to deal damage AND heal.

Yeah, split gold better. Killing blows should not be everything.

Most often its harder to get hte lastt 500-1000hp off of a DG than it is to get him down the first 5K

As said before in this thread; this game is a team game.  I would much rather be the on to bring down an enemy demigod to 10% and then have someone snipe or kill him from long-range than just me killing him and no assist being given.  Would you rather have 1k gold to yourself or 500 gold for yourself and 1k for your teammate?  From reading some of these replies and the OP I'm going to assume there are some out there that would prefer the 1k over the more team-beneficial 1.5k.  The majority of money will be going to the citadel no matter what anyways.  Also the quicker you can have someone killed the less chance for escape and the better chance for you to be better prepared to continue pushing or attack another demigod without having to pull back to regen.

I don't say put all your money into citadel upgrades.  I usally spend about 2-3k before I buy the first upgrade.  As soon as we hit rank 3 I will go and buy the gold upgrade though, no reason not to get that one.  After I buy that upgrade I will either purchase the xp and building regen upgrades or the HoL (depending on how much my team is actually playing like a team).  Those 3 upgrades are essential and are must-haves in nearly every situation.

After my HoL, I will save up so I can get priests, angels and catapaults all at once (hopefully only have to buy 1-2 of those so I have money either for giants or a mageslayer).  I have had very little issues with enemy demigods with 4 low-tier pieces of equipment and the HoL and if the game goes long enough for enemy DG's to grab more than one artifact (at least on prison and cataract) then your team probably will lose anyways.

How about this.. if you stop a demigod from using a skill (sedna's heal or Oak's invunerability) by using frost to cancel their attack and another demigod gets the kill (because they couldn't heal or become invunerable) you get absolutely nothing as a TB.

At least give the TB some gold for participating in the kill.

Wow you people are still arguing wtf........

Its not like you get nothing if you help out in kills you get around 1k gold for participating in most kills so quit fucking whining.

Gee.......

So, OP is suggesting to help the Rook whilst at the same time screwing over other DGs like Sedna and QoT, big-time.  Obviously a very bad idea.