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CustomStart

Current Version: v0.26

Choose starting techs, bots, and home unit.

Full menu in Main Menu -> Options -> Mods -> CustomStart to help you start the game exactly as you want.

To play with the custom start, when starting a new game choose "CustomStart" instead of "Freeplay" as the starting scenario.

Should be compatible with all other mods, but since it is a scenario it can't be combined with other scenario mods.

Might have issues if any mod removes the basic tech tree or any of the units/components CustomStart spawns and those options are selected in the menu, but to my knowledge no mod available yet does that.

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Choose "Home" Unit:

- Default Mobile Command Center (same as base game)
- Mobile Command Center without deploy componant (for those who want to play a nomad game)
- Automation Challenge, a MCC with no deploy, but with a power cell, miner, behavior controller, and fabricator. (Requested by EightTonnesOfCrab)
- Cub (A cub that starts with a fabricator, solar cell, and an expanded storage. Hardmode.)

Choose extra Starting Unit Presets:

- Starting Scouts: Same set of 3 scouts you start with in the base game
- Cheaty Stripminers: a pack of 6 twinbots that come pre-loaded with advanced miners, behaviors, and power cells.

Choose a Box-O-Goodies:

- Box-O- 24 Fabricators
- Box-O- 24 Behaviors
- Box-O- 24 Portable Transporters

Choose extra Starting Units:

- Extra Workers, 0-20 - With options to start each one with miners, advanced miners, solar panel, turrets, behaviors, capacitors, and/or power cells. (to the limit of the slots the Worker has)
- Extra Dashbots, 0-20 - Same options as Workers
- Extra Twinbots, 0-20 - Same options as Workers
- Extra Scouts, 0-20 - Same options as Workers
- Extra Mobile Command Centers (MCCs), 0-20 - Same options as Workers
- Extra Cubs, 0-20 - Same options as Workers (Medium component options still in the queue)

Choose starting Technologies:

- All tier 1-3 techs from the basic Robot tech tree have checkboxes to choose from.

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- Rework UI to use tabs instead of a scrollbar (options are getting long)
- Add preset/prebuilt specific purpose options - like a roomba.
- Home unit additional loadout(extra fabricator, assemblers, research pylon, more?)
- Figure out how to add starting drones.
- Clearly mark Challenge mode, re-balance, and cheat mode options
- Tooltips (looks like this might not be possible? Current widgets don't seem to support, would need to write my own.)
- Add presets on a dropdown (Current widgets don't seem to support, would need to write my own dropdown list.)
- More !?

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Comments/Concerns/Bug Reports and Requests welcome!

https://github.com/sunyudai/CustomStart