*Mod hat off
Unless I am mistaken, DU has got 565,000 USD successfully financed at Kickstarter. And Infinity Battlescape barely around 330,000 USD.
I think it is more a matter of scope control, access to skill and management rather than budget to be honest. The Battlescape guys seem to be running a tight ship so far and look like they have set up a very disciplined shop although you can tell it is stretched and a couple wrong decisions can probably derail the whole thing. DU in the other hand seem to be practicing the same bombastic marketing and promises that we can see in SC, at their scale (DU´s main first dev update after the kickstarter was about how to pledge more money...) and I have many more doubts about that one.
Godspeed to both.
Yeah, that's part of the point that I was making. 2 million for such a "feature" when you have teams making entire "games" out of something like that.