I agree on this, ive been being bced all day long too. Im a reals player and honestly if i cant even quest, this game becomes boring. There should be a lvl range like in arena, 7 bridges and toh.

There are lots of ways to handle this. Level restrictions, limit attacks per day, etc. Having the victim spend gold to 'tag' the offender is not one of them.

The best way I've seen implemented elsewhere is a type of criminal index, Attacking people is a criminal act, so there should be consequences for this. For example, each attack risks alerting the authorities - in this case perhaps those giant black Russian mercs that appear during BoT's - the offender gets smacked down, it's broadcast in chat, and everybody cheers. Yay! Level difference would (say) increase the risk. A level 30 attacking a level 30 would amount to no risk. Level 30 attacking a level 20 considerable risk. Etc, etc.

Other ideas: Each attack adds to the offender's criminal rating. When it gets to a certain level they risk the above. Or, they start to attract bounties. Perhaps we increase regional safe zones? There are lots of ways to fix this.

Attacking players that can't fight back, and that is what this is all about, should be risky. At the moment there is no risk, only reward. And that's just ridiculous.