I gave up on Arcanum after my 30th trek back and forth between the Wheel Clan mines and the big city... the one with the train... aarrgh, brain fart!
Anyway, yes, it was a great game until my shotgun-toting, molotov-chucking dwarf and his idiotic companions (Virgil and Dog! Woo! Go, non-tech companions!) kept doing the same thing over and over and over and over again. It was such an awesome setting that, to my knowledge, nobody has repeated since, and it had such a deep storyline (or potential for one, anyway) that I feel a little guilty for bailing on it .
Maybe once I work through my growing collection of abandonware (must... relive... childhood!) I'll ressurrect Sulir Hairsparks IV and give Arcanum another shot and, who knows, maybe we can get some multiplay happening.