I reported earlier in the thread about the inflation problem playing as the Altarians with a research bonus. Now I'm playing as the Terrans without a research bonus(though I am Technologists) and almost 5 years in I haven't seen the increases jumps at all.

I reported the sudden doubling of my research cost as a possible bug back on May 2 but no one responded. (
Research Cost Bug? - ToA v1.91

I sent in a zip of the saved game just before and after the doubling to Cari Begle ; gc2bugs@stardock.com on May 2.

btw. I was playing as the Yor without any research bonus.

Kryo - Can you check with Cari & Brad and see if this is a candidate for a hotfix and if they still need more saves to isolate the alleged bug?

Everyone's still on PM08, so unfortuantely there's not really any way for a TA hotfix until that's done.

Part of me is also a little disappointed in how the potential bugs are being handled. I haven't heard much anything from posts about whether very low trade route income is a bug. But I can also understand why no comment would be made so that they would not be seen by reviewers. Right now everyone can sit guessing whether something is a bug or not and hopefully reviewers won't have them or won't notice them. I can't say I would do things much differently. I do want ToA to get well reviewed because I think it is great and I want to see a sequel and future support for it. I also would like for turn based strategy games to get more attention. However, despite all the potential bugs, I do find the game is well worth it, and I suspect many of these *bugs* are readily fixable (especially since many were not present in some of the later betas).

Same bug WWW Link.

All research costs suddenly exactly doubled.

K.

I am also almost positive taking research bonus in your race ability affects the sudden tech increases.

Also note that a tech doubling only happens at the very moment when you finish a tech!

I've noticed it happening after accuiring techs that add to research ability. I've also encountered this in pretty much all of my games so far.

Until the patch I am going to play something else. The game is a lot of fun, but this is a game killer.

I don't think it is strictly research bonus or research ability modification. I just had it happen playing Yor with no research bonus on an immense map. I noticed precisely when it happened, as I was about to research basic logistics (2 weeks), but went for advancing my collectives tech instead. As soon as the collective tech levelled, everything on the board doubled. Logistics went up to 4. After that point, I noticed another doubling a few turns later---but I don't remember what caused it that time.

I suppose the only thing that was adjusting my research ability were a few resources being mined and upgraded.

Anyway, I'm done with this game for now. I'm going back to Space Empires or DA until this gets fixed. It's too bad as its a good game otherwise. I can't believe they aren't all over this bug and out with a patch yesterday.

By the way I was playing with the First release of TA, not the update that I see they released May 1st. I was hoping that would fix it. But I see people are having the problem still.

I wanted to add my "voice" to this thread as well.
I have played a couple of games in TA and tech inflation was rampant in each of those. In the beginning of last game Planetary Invasion was 10 turns to research. Lots of turns later (I had dozens of colonized planets and huge research bonuses) I noticed it was 30 turns to research!

It's a gamebreaker for me unfortunately  

Please fix this!

Wish they'd fix this sh!t. I can understand they're all working on PM, but does this games community have no importance? D: I used to be amazed by the support of this game, but now I'm quite disappointed.

Hey Stardock, is there at least a way we can maybe revert back to the most recent beta of ToA? The research and trade route bugs weren't present in that. I think I would gladly uninstall the game and use the beta instead.