hello damocles,

i am not looking to make this RTS myself. i am just doing a small project for a company where i need to give them an idea abt the costs and time involved. financing is their headache altogether.
i could contact some game development companies directly for a quote but i thought i would get some input from non-company ppl first.

so lets say i need to get this game developed within a year....how big a team will i need and how much will it cost? i know its difficult to answer such a question without further details abt the game but a ballpark figure will do.

the game is going to be used for educational/training purposes so it doesn't need to have any cutting edge graphics at all. The target audience is such that 95% of them will never have played an RTS before. It just needs to be a bare bones RTS without any major bugs. Also, the absence of a computer player AI should help the cause.