I need a guideline for game development [Amount of polgones/vertices]

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Hey guys,

I’ve started to develop a strategy game with a friend and my results are quite fine, but we have a big problem:

We want our game to be playable for 2-3 years old middle-class computers up to recent systems.

Can someone give me a rough amount of vertices/polygones for:

-units:
-buildings
-terrain

my first building consists of about 700 vertices, one unit with about 1000 vertices, another unit about 2500 vertices.

I thought, 500-100 vertices for buildings and 100-2500 vertices for units should be fine.

PS: We use blender for modelling, texturing, rigging and animations and unity as engine.

Thank you and greetings,
Philsen

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If you are using Unity it may be more appropriate to ask in the Unity forumshttp://answers.unity3d.com/questions/19379/how-many-polygons-is-too-much.html
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/59103/rules-of-thumb-for-polygon-counts.html
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/54832-3D-model-polygon-count-How-much-is-optimal
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/265223/hi-i-have-a-question-about-polygons-count-in-a-scn.html
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/413456/what-is-a-good-polygon-count.html

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Hey Richard, thank you for your quick and informative posts!