Hey folks, I have a round of changes to the bounty system as follows:

* Only two people at once can now have registration for a bounty.
* Bounty registrations expire after an hour, i.e. you have to kill the bounty target within an hour.
- However, you can just retake the bounty again after the hour has passed.
* If the bounty target kills you while you have a bounty registered against them, you will lose the registration and cannot ever accept it again for that particular bounty.
- This only happens on a direct kill, an assist won't trigger this.
- This also only counts for a valid bounty kill situation (i.e. not in an open PK area, etc).
* Every time the target of a bounty kills a bounty hunter that has registered against them, they will gain a point of notoriety with the city that filed the bounty.
* Notoriety increases the bounty value of that target by 5,000 gold per point.
- If the security ministry does not have enough funds to cover the new bounty value, the bounty is automatically expired.
* This also affects the minimum bounty value a target can have going forward. So if I have 3 notoriety with Enorian, the minimum bounty value they can set against me is 15k.
* Notoriety decreases at a rate of 1 point per game season.
* Notoriety is not attached to a specific bounty and does not go away if a bounty is rescinded, expires, or is claimed. Only the seasonal decrease gets rid of notoriety.
* Notoriety only applies to city bounties. Esterport bounties remain unchanged.
* Security ministry has a new BOUNTY NOTORIETY command to check who has gained notoriety with their city.

As a result of this change, I've wiped any existing registrations against bounties. So please register again if you intend to go bounty hunting!

Penned by my hand on Quensday, the 10th of Variach, in the year 513 MA.