Oh, I only realised TODAY that there were replies in this thread! O.o Thanks guys for the positive comments! The current version would be available for download and testing if I could bludgeon Olly into uploading it to the dark-omen FTP
To tie in with the topic of this thread, I am currently testing different solutions for the network layer. At this time I am coding a simple lobby in Boost AISO atm to evaluate it as a good package for wartbed.