), but that makes a bunch of other changesas well (full changelist here ). There are a few mods that fix it, starting with the original sjawyer mod (put together by the game's director, updated version here
It's also not consistent - sometimes killing guys will unmark their property as owned, sometimes not. This game was very rushed and karma was just one of the things they didn't get to implement or cut. Not the most immersive, but you get used to it. Killing powder gangers and feral ghouls spikes your karma so much in the other direction that you'd have to actively avoid killing any to have 'stealing' to add up enough to actively count against you.