By compensation are we talking about for some system issue? Or are you talking about the bounty you get (or don't get) from killing an enemy base?
If the former I missed something, if the latter I'm with you. I must tell you though, the community is at least somewhat to blame for the neutering of PvP. Because of a few bad apples account harvesting, the 'fix' to that was to pretty much neuter that entire aspect of the game which is a shame.
Want to hear a funny story? WAAAY back in the day, in Closed Beta 1, before POI, before the fort, if you had 3,000,000,000,000,000 tib in your base and you died in PvP ALL OF IT TRANSFERED!
All of it :p