This mod is obsolete starting with PTE 68772-main. Give the commander enough economy to run his own nanolathe, avoiding mex-mex-pgen-mex. May conflict with other mods affecting commander. Put another way, it removes the least interesting 45 seconds from every game. - https://github.com/JustinLove/factory_first - http://wondible.com/pa/factory_first_v1.1.0.zip - PAMM
I very much support this. One of my favorite parts about The Realm Balance mod. I really hope Uber makes it so we can go factory first in vanilla PA.
Delisted from PAMM; if you like this you already have it or can download the file above (or play PTE)
:O I had a feeling this would become default! Good work, though, Wondible, I'm sure that this mod helped push that functionality to implementation.
There is an interesting aspect of the current design, where a commander with his stuff destroyed is less capable of rebuilding. They seem to have given up on the idea of the egg as getting past the initial mex-mex-energy-mex.