Hello again, speculators!
I guess its time for my annual reminder that github would possibly (<-edit) reject the BAR repositories due to their size and the presence of a large number of data-files.
Possibly also time for my bi-annual reminder that, as a derivative of OTA->AA->BA->... which deliberately preserves many close similarities - even if no bit identical files - the legal status of BAR is in much the same grey area as that of BA.
And lastly, all it really needs, for its next (and, for me, final) step, is for me to get around to re-testing and packaging up the missions. But I have a busy life. I could have done it at Christmas but
https://github.com/silentwings/mutate-a-mod was more fun (and I might make an Easter bunny update too).
There is certainly lots of polish that could be added too, and it may or may not survive the stresses of an 8v8 game if anyone ever wanted to play one - but working on those parts is non-trivial. I have no plans in that direction, anyone sufficiently competent and interested should, as always, contact Behe via pm.
As far as I know, there is no longer any plan or real interest in having BAR replace BA for large online multiplayer games. I am not sure if this is due to it not being suitable or to BA having more serious problems of its own to deal with. I see nothing wrong with this situation; with apologies from me to those who do - perhaps I could have made it happen whilst I was still working on BA, if I'd had more time, but I didn't.
(@BA - if you would prefer to see BAR threads moved out of your forum, simply let me & the admins know via pm.)