Okay, so i have not played sins in months and months. After finally getting it installed and imulsed installed on my new laptop, updating sins, and spending an hour trying to remember my username, i go in to find that its not much more active, if even less active than when i left months ago. Is this just because no one new has come, or because of the expansion pack? Im getting the pack tomorrow (And now i dont really want to play a game of the old sins, looking foward to starbases to much..), but is the majority of multiplayer require the expansion pack?