(Old league) Cut-throat testers wanted

EDIT: There's another one today (Saturday NZ time): http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/28850

If you don't know what cut-throat mode is, please read this page.

Although it's not 100% confirmed, we're hoping to run a temporary cut-throat league this weekend (instead of the normal rush league).

We haven't tested this game mode enough and we need some help. I want to run a private testing event tomorrow (Thursday, NZ time) during the NZ workday. I'm guessing say 1pm. This is about 6pm Pacific time.

This testing league will be password protected and will probably be very rough. It may not be any fun the first time. We'll find out how it goes, will make some changes, then will run one again a few hours later if needed. This will continue until the weekend, when we hopefully have the game mode compelling enough for public access :)

Please post in this thread if you're interested in helping us test this mode. We'd prefer testers with a good post history of solid feedback. What happens in the testing league is secret and shouldn't be discussed publicly. It may require some tweaks before we get it right, so we want to avoid posts of "well I tried cut-throat and it was lame".

If you're selected, we'll PM you some details before the event.

Please don't be offended if we don't select you to help. There may be a lot of candidates and we don't quite know how many people we'll need yet.

UPDATE:

It looks like we're still (tentatively) on for two hours from now. We have some bugs to fix and then a bit of testing, followed by deploying 0.9.8e which will contain the changes.

I will post the league password in this thread so that I don't have to send out 150 PMs. Please understand that this is just an early test of cut-throat and will probably be terrible the first time. The fun depends a lot on things like PvP damage multipliers (which we may not get right initially). Thanks for your patience :)

UPDATE2:

- 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 Default.
- There's a PvP damage multiplier on levels below 15 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 players who are not in their party.
- You can ctrl+click on the entrance to an area to use the Instance Management screen to manually enter any other player's instance of an area.
- The maximum party size is still 6.
- Cut-throat instances can hold a maximum of 12 players. This means that a full party is not safe because another party can invade them.
- This test is not a hardcore league. When you die, you lose the normal experience penalty for your difficulty plus 10% of your current level. You also drop all inventory and equipped items. Your flasks and equipped skill gems are not dropped.
- If you were killed by another player, your lost experience is awarded to them.
- If you attempt to abruptly leave the game 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 10 seconds rather than 5 seconds. This should start once the player is mostly done loading.
- Changing area or going through portals also has a five second delay where you are on the loading screen and are vulnerable to attacks. This is a bug.

You'll definitely want to store spare copies of items in your stash. When you die and lose your gear (but retain skill gems), you'll need some more items to go and try to find/steal more gear.

This game mode is designed to make you lose your items. Please don't play it if that's going to upset you. It's meant to be hectic and you shouldn't expect to keep anything for long. The stash is your friend.

UPDATE3:

0.9.8e has been deployed. We're going to create the league and will give out the password soon.

The first league will last for one hour.

UPDATE4:

It's ready now. I've put the password to the league at the end of the notes above (so that you read them all, please do!)