Private Cutthroat Leagues anyone?

Besides custom leagues, another old promise GGG has dangled over us all for ages is Cutthroat mode aka open world PvP. We've even had a few events with it, and even dev posts on the topic like this - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/829410 They seem very iffy about ever adding it in, even if only as an optional mode one can temporarily opt into and out of. Obviously, griefing is a major reason for this (albeit making it something you have to toggle on would seem to address that issue, but oh well). But that's much less of a concern when it's just between a small group of friends. So given that, what about the idea of eventually adding cutthroat as one of the possible league modifiers for private leagues? It might not be suitable for a 1000-man league, but it should be perfect for something with 10-100 players (which is likely to be the size of most private leagues anyway). Thoughts?

Would love it but would need some rework.

ATM cutthroat is a shitshow because of the zone spawn camping with traps&mine and the all items drops on death.

It is utterly stupid to die at level 30+ then resurrect and painfully finding few whites and blues from mobs to be again killed at spawn by geared players.

In the end people just quit as they keep getting trolled at zone spawn and loosing their whites&blue items

In my opinion the items drop on death should be changed or modified, maybe to only drop rares-uniques and flask + currency.

I would watch it, but not play it.

I would force Mathil, Ziz, ZiggyD and other well known folks to do one evening cutthroat for some keks and burs. I think the real longevity of cutthroat right now does not go much further than that.

They tried it more than once in various formats, participation dropped of very rapidly , some people camped lowbies and some other PvP related issues.

BUT having it a mod for a custom league might work. (also what's the point if you can toggle it off?)

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lagwin1980 wrote:

They tried it more than once in various formats, participation dropped of very rapidly , some people camped lowbies and some other PvP related issues.

BUT having it a mod for a custom league might work. (also what's the point if you can toggle it off?)

Level restrictions can perhaps help with that, so you can only see instances with all players within a certain level range of you. I mean, it's not like they can afford to have it completely unrestricted anyway, since at the very least party restrictions will have to be implemented so you can't simply backstab people at the last second during boss fights. Plus all these concerns are reduced quite a bit when the people involved aren't total strangers, but part of a smaller community who all know each other (hence why I said it might not work too well in 1000-man leagues).

As for toggling it off, I meant that for the regular game, not cutthroat private leagues. It would allow you to choose when you're open to open world PvP, and when you aren't. Not needed for a cutthroat private league I imagine, since there you've explicitly chosen to partake in the mode, and even paid in for the privilege.