So yeah, if the game succedes we'll have finaly modding tools, hurray. What would you like to first see as a mod? Mini gentleman hats for the robots? Shady bots with gentleman hats? Bacon?
I don't want to be the one to point this out, but Uber hasn't exactly been successful in bringing mod tools before despite promises. This is something to keep in mind, but may/may not be a deal breaker for people.
Mod tools for SMNC and MNC are possible to do, it unfortunately came down to engineering resources: did we want to make the time consuming changes to allow modding support or use that time to add significant and some would say required features to the game. For Planetary Annihilation we're using our internally developed engine and will be making the game with modding in mind from the beginning.