Depends on which branch of RTS design you want to explore.
Age of Empires 2 still has a significant player base, for example, so it's both a genre-defining classic and modern ranked multi-player.
Other RTS design traditions include Total Annilation, etc. Plus there's adjacent stuff, such as They Are Billions which just does the base building part and drops some of the other mechanics.
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Depends on which branch of RTS design you want to explore.
Age of Empires 2 still has a significant player base, for example, so it's both a genre-defining classic and modern ranked multi-player.
Other RTS design traditions include Total Annilation, etc. Plus there's adjacent stuff, such as They Are Billions which just does the base building part and drops some of the other mechanics.