Yeah, I reinstalled MOO3 earlier this year as well and applied most of the mods at that time (I think Feb/Mar timeframe). They really did change the game. I stopped after about 150+ turns primarily due to the fact that I was up against several Orion systems and no one had told me that in addition to the patches I also needed to go in and manually change the values of their orbital bases (b/c the ECM mod/fix made them almost impossible to hit) and this could NOT be done after the game was started
I also stopped b/c, while I like real-time combat (much fairer then IGO,UGO), I refuse to play games when they do not allow us to pause and give orders. Unfortunately, no one could patch that...
Well, I guess I also stopped to start beta testing on my all-time favorite game
