LM it is up to you, but VD's Modern Era expansion is not exactly obsolete but it is no longer being maintained in VD, where the author is putting those efforts into the Quot Capita mod.
I'm not sure what your plans are, but were you going to try to make a future BAT version have the same option as VD has, modern era expansion?
I like that idea but not sure if it is worth the effort unless the modern stuff can be ported over to Bat from Quot Capita.
just picking your brain on this.
The MEE for Varietas is still being supported by Avain. In fact, he has updated it for VD 9. For myself, I always play with the MEE added to BAT, because I enjoy it so much.
However, there is a problem with adding it to BAT on an official level. It breaks the "Unaltered Gameplay" philosophy of BUG, BAT, and BULL. These mods were designed to make the game better, without altering the way the game works, and as a minor member of the BUG team, I support that idea. Unless it's decided by EF and ruff_hi, BAT will never have an included mod that alters the basic play of the game. BAT itself is primarily cosmetic, and there are some improvements coming in a future version with that in mind. BTS purists can play the game they love with the graphical enhancements, and the added functions of BUG/BULL, and they can be confident that the game won't change. (But it will be more graphically enhanced.)
As I've been fiddling with getting the problems sorted out of the most recent BAT releases, I have found a way to incorporate a few of the game changing parts of Varietas into BAT. My own version is heavily modified, but I obviously can't release it. What I am going to do shortly, is to package the extras for Varietas, like the extra civs, the MEE, and the leaderhead pack, into a format that will work with BAT, and these will have a BAT installer. I'm currently converting them to work with the next version of BAT that will come out when EF gets the newest version of BUG completed. They will be released in the general modding forum as mod comps, and not here in the BUG forum, since they are separate from this project, and I don't want to have EF and ruff pestered about how they work, etc.
I am waiting for the extra packs to stabilize, in case there are new versions with the new Varietas, and I would like to get Avain's blessing of the mod packs prior to releasing them, in case he would like some items changed. It is his mod, after all.