Altruist

Altruist
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First Round	Milky Way Beta 1
Other names	Rheumatic Warrior
Known for	Harkonnens
Title	Retired Mod • Retired Player

Regarding his depature, Altruist wrote:

After beta 4 I quit playing IC... well, more or less. I continued to work as a Mod for some more weeks but quit the work then, partly to free myself from IC, partly out of frustration about a Mod's sisyphean task. There were several severe short-term and long-term problems IC was facing and many brilliant players who knew the game and the mechanics made good suggestions to solve those problems. Problems which often enough hunt IC since today. It didn't motivate nor help being a Mod while the Admins remained more or less absent. As a matter of fact I did still like the game too much to see it go down but there was no way how to change it.

The IC-community had also changed a lot and wasn't the place it used to be: more and more morons were showing up and the game changed from having a community mainly playing for fun & thrill to a community ruled by players who wanted to win regardless of how this was achieved.

Regarding a 2002 reunion, Altruist wrote:

Sometime in 2002 after drafting was introduced into the game, there was a project to reform a family consisting of former Harkonnens, Pirates from the Tortuga Nebula Thugs and some former respected enemies like Sogil, Starstrike... but IC wasn't anylonger the IC we knew and loved: the playing style had changed a lot from wars being fought for the thrill and fun of it to the now common 3 vs 1 wars to maximize the profit.

Notable Rounds

Galaxy	Family	Empire
Milky Way Beta 1	Harkonnens	Altruists
Triangulum Beta 2	Harkonnens	Empire of Idleness
Milky Way Beta 3	Harkonnens	Bizarre Dreamclouds
Milky Way Beta 4	Harkonnens	Anarchist Renegades
Orion 2		Dreamwavers
BOTC
Orion IV		RedCorsairs
Sagittarius Dwarf		Rheumatic Warrior