(UPDATED with Prizes!) Weekend Cut-throat Event

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aporia wrote:

The link posted to the time zone converter doesn't really work. Well the link does but the time zone converter doesn't :P It tells me that when its 10AM for New zealand its 12AM for me in the Netherlands. this isn't right at all.

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Dlumenta wrote:

I just dont like the part that when you die to players. All your items will be dropped O.O

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Chris wrote:

There will be a three-hour cut-throat event at 10am-1pm Sunday April 22 NZ time. Here is a timezone converter.

The first two tests went very well! We're excited about this next one.

This event is public, so there are no passwords and we're completely happy with you live-streaming it, etc.

It's a non-hardcore league (we'll be trying those later) and will move characters and items back to the default league afterwards.

The top players of each class ranked by experience will receive:

• #1: 3 Gemcutter's Prisms
• #2: 2 Gemcutter's Prisms
• #3: 1 Gemcutter's Prism

The top players of each class ranked by player-kills of unique accounts will receive:

• #1: 3 Gemcutter's Prisms and a Demigod's Presence (Unique Amulet)
• #2: 2 Gemcutter's Prisms
• #3: 1 Gemcutter's Prism

Note that player kills only measure people on different accounts. This means that you can't farm kills by killing your friend over and over, or getting your friend to create new characters. In the future, we'll have some rules in place to restrict players from ganking people who are far under their level.

Player kills count killing-blows only.

Rules are:

• 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, skill gems (even ones in your inventory) and quest items 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. This should start once the player is mostly done loading.
• Non-partied players only show up on the map if they're nearby.
• When someone enters your area, it just says "Someone" has entered, not who they are.