Does anyone else miss Cutthroat as much as I do?

I haven't played in a little over a year, but I check OVER and OVER and OVER again looking for cutthroat races, or even a permanent league hopefully sometime, and am always disappointed. ):

Bring me back my cutthroat :O

Yes please! I got stomped on in the CT races, but miss them anyway.

No. It's a toxic community of griefers. That's why a league wouldn't work. You can't just have a bunch of assholes running around in grief gangs. You need "normal" players in order for the league to work. Alas Cutthroat needs normal players for the griefers to kill. However a normal player would "try" it out for a few minutes, get zoned camped, and then quit.

Granted your question was around a 1 or 2 week race, which I don't have a problem with. The only thing I was saying is the concept is flawed. That is why participation is so low and why races don't appear much any longer.

Chris talked about cutthroat recently, I can't recall if it was the podcast or the prepatch stream. They intend to run a 1 week on the alpha server to tune it and then try a live one - no eta. They plan to disable the eternal lab in CT which will be great imo. I am looking forward to it!

no.

only griefers like CT....

I am looking forward to this very much!

Oh god, I am going to get so very very very pwned.

I wasn't around for CT, how does it work?

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Oh god, I am going to get so very very very pwned.

I wasn't around for CT, how does it work?

Hostile in all instances except town, some damage scaling adjustments. PvE leveling up is still possible, but difficult as the instance manager shows the names of who is in a given instance. Killing someone makes them drop their items.

I pulled this from one of the old CT events:

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GGG_Neon wrote:

An Introduction to Cut-throat Mode thread has been posted, if you are new to this league type it is highly advised you read the introduction.

Existing players who are familiar with the cut-throat league rule set are also advised on reading the thread as new rules may have been introduced, these rules are summarized below.

Summary of general Cut-throat rules:

• This is a separate short-duration league that has its own stash (as usual). At the end of the event, characters and stashed items will be moved to Standard.
• There's a PvP damage multiplier because players start with a lot more life than they do damage. This multiplier will be adjusted substantially based on feedback from this event and others.
• Players are hostile by default to all players.
• You can ctrl+click on the entrance to an area to use the Instance Management screen to manually enter other players' instances of an area.
• Cut-throat instances can hold a maximum of 12 players.
• This test is not a hardcore league. When you die, you lose the normal experience penalty for your difficulty plus 30% of your current level. You also drop all inventory and equipped items. Your flasks, skill gems (even ones in your inventory) and quest items are not dropped.
• If you were killed by another player, your lost experience is given to them.
• If you attempt to abruptly leave the game (such as pressing Alt+F4) in a non-town instance, you have to wait 5 seconds and are unable to move or use flasks.
• The grace period of invulnerability upon entering an area is 20 seconds. This should start once the player is mostly done loading.
• Non-partied players only show up on the map if they're nearby.
• There are no notifications for players joining or leaving areas.
• Portals cannot be used until they have been up for five seconds after they have been cast.
• You cannot apply microtransaction effects to items in cut-throat. You may dance and have pets.
• Cut-throat events are not experience races. There's no prize for being highest level. There are no prizes at all other than the fun of participation.
• There's now a level limit on entering areas that contain other players. If you're much higher level than the lowest level player in the area, or much lower level than the highest level player, you can't join. Let us know what you think about the numbers we chose and we can tweak them for subseuqent events.
• The guild stash is not available.
• Players may not party up in this event. We are going to experiment with parties-with-friendly-fire in future ones.