Hardcore Group Found and Group Found

Hey,
I wanted to grasp the community's opinion of this.

So in original Hardcore WoW with the add-on, not after official release, you could, at the start of the game, type in your teammates names and lock your group to the selected few.

Groups had to log in together, be together in the same zone, or get disqualified.
The add-on would check this by having a timer, tracking these things. Party members were allowed to trade with each other, but only with each other.

This made the whole experience a bit easier in HC WoW, but it should be fine in Poe due to enemy scaling in parties.

I also posted this on reddit if you are interested to read what ppl write there: Reddit

So to summarize, what I am asking is a mode/league with the following features.:

- Set party members at the start of the game
- Have a reasonable timer to make sure the selected group logs in together (3 minutes for example) if not, all registered party members get disqualified. For disconnects, well you would need to either disconnect all or the players would need to disconnect manually, after all the challenge would be getting through the whole game together.
- Maybe for a game like PoE it makes sense to add a level disparity disqualifier to prevent 1 player to clear zones while having a second client logged in, afking in zones.
- Do the same for zoning. If any party member progresses alone in a zone,
disqualify the entire group. (this would be redundant if lvl disparity would be in place.
- If any group member dies, the full group dies.
- Trading is allowed within the selected starting group members and only them.
- Groups have to enter arenas/content together or get disqualified.

I personally think, this is a fun way to play the game together in a group while having restrictions, that yes, you could set yourself, but it would be fun, to have its own league as well.

I am curious to see what people think.

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Edit history:
Feb 16 25
- added link to reddit post.
- added ideas from reddit post

id love this for ssf

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buglegit#0484 wrote:

id love this for ssf

Well I think it should be separate from ssf, as the first s implies solo, that is why I named it Group Found.
Hcgf if you want. :D

imo SSF should just be client specific loot, theres no reason to disable grouping with something like that in place.

id love to not play in trade league but i do play with 3-4 friends and it would mea we could never group again.

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SuzukiSix#1108 wrote:

imo SSF should just be client specific loot, theres no reason to disable grouping with something like that in place.

So, I guess the main concern would still be boosting.
So other restrictions would need to be placed as well, like level disparity not higher than 2lvls for example.