Is this supposed to happen?

I feel it'll be used to cheat towards helping your allegiance win if you can get points for hitting a teammate with a balloon.

This is more of a question that'd be best answered by Eve.

So it seems to be giving me a point when I hit another neutral, as an example.

It's similar to last years leaf game bug, where you could battle your team members and get a point for your own allegiance whether you won or lost.

I remember you saying this was a bug in the leaf game and would be fixed for the next years leaf game, so I figured this would be the same type of bug if it is indeed giving users points to hit their teammates successfully