Alas, it is hard to become acquainted with MoO3. I try it every now and again, but there are so many overwhelming details in it, that I do not see the wood for the trees. Plus the fact that there are not too many fans around anymore, it is a pity.
Recently I have heard from one of the mod designers of
http://www.ultima-orion.de/ they plan to work on the German fan patch mod again. But they say ver 0.87 already is way better playable than vanilla.