The Bounty System

Bounty Hunter (NPC)

It's a NPC in the major towns. From him you'll have 2 possibilities:

a.) Creating Bounty

You'll be able to create a "Bounty Quest" including following options:

- Set duration of "Bounty Quests" to 1/7/14/30 day(s)
- Set reward (money and/or items) - you have to have these things in your inventory.
- Set predefined Objectives (kill player xy ten times / get his head / get 20 teeth / etc.)
After you created your "Bounty Quest" and paid a small fee (proportional to the difficulty of the quest - kill player x 10 times is cheaper than 100 times), the items/money defined as reward will disappear from your inventory and the quest will become active.
- You're allowed just to have 3 Bounty Quests created by you at the same time.

b.) Getting "Bounty Quests"

You can check a list / bulletin for quests which are active and can accept Bounty Quests (up to 3 at the same time).

After the first one completed and turned in the quest, everyone else on the quest gets a notice that the quest has finished by player xy.
Now all others cannot proceed with / end this specific quest, but they have the chance to turn it in and get money proportional to the percentage of completing.
For example the goal was to kill someone 10 times and a player completed right now the quest.
You also participated in the quest, but you only have 4/10 kills.
You walk to the NPC and get 4/10th of the initial reward (if items are included in the reward, you only get money).
So you get a bit for your effort.

Explanation about factions: If you create a Bounty Quest that includes to kill your own kind, the quest won't be available on your side but on the enemy side at the respective NPC on the other side.

Since Aion will be more a PvP oriented game, this method will keep the game dynamic.
If you find a player harrassing/killstealing/whatever you, you can easily punish him in an elegant way.
Also you don't have to get angry that you can't kill him due game mechanics (Elyos can't kill Elyos and Asmodians can't kill Asmodians).

Additions

When someone puts a bounty on your head, you are notified by a letter from "Anonymous" in your mailbox.

Also there is a bounty level range of 5 levels above/below you.
If you are max level, you can set Bounties on every level, but the fee (mentioned above) will increase significantly with the level difference.
If it's vice versa, it's also expensive.
This prevents making alts to create cheaper Bounties.

For example (the numbers are only for comparison):
You: 50, Enemy: 45 -> Fee of Bounty Quest "Kill player x 10 times" = 1,000.
You: 50, Enemy: 12 -> Fee of Bounty Quest "Kill player x 10 times" = 100,000.
You: 12, Enemy 17 -> Fee of Bounty Quest "Kill player x 10 times" = 100.
You: 12, Enemy 50 -> Fee of Bounty Quest "Kill player x 10 times" = 100,000.