Topic: I'm new here, some SFC Questions

[spaivxx]

Hi I have been a lifelong Trek fan, I love ST in any form, canon or not. SFC was the very first PC game I ever bought and I have owned all of the SFC series as well as other Trek games (BOTF, Armada I&II, etc...).

I quit playing SFC shortly after SFC was released because I felt that they really dumbed down the game and also it seemed the Dynaverse had issues. I spent several years playing Darkspace (a great ship to ship combat MMOG) because it was the closest thing to what I had always wanted SFC to be.

The new movie kind of reactivated my Trek obsession and Darkspace is basically dead these days so I was just about to reinstall SFC II when I thought I might do a search and see if people still play it at all and I ended up here.

So my question is, and please forgive me because I have not had time to thoroughly search the forums, do people still actually play SFC II or III? Which is more popular. I like II much better but would play III if it had a bigger player base. Tomorrow I guess I will make time to read some info here on getting Dynaverse running. I am dying to play this game again but the fun wears out within minutes against AI with no other people to play with.

[Lieutenant_Q]

OP has the biggest base here.  III still has a good sized following, but its fractured between a number of different mods.  OP is pretty standardized, everyone playing OP is usually on the same package.