It is not fixed yet, but I'm pretty sure Kryo said it is on the list for the next update, which hopefully will be out not too far into June.

Yeah. It's wierd. It is almost like they actually empathise with their customers and want to make them happy.

My suggestion would be to just play something else until the next update. I wish they'd open up the last public beta again for people to patch back. I have faith the problem will be solved though as soon as they can. SD has more then earned the trust they have received in this thread.

There's also a research cap, though. I don't know what the point number is, but there is a maximum amount of research that you can do in one turn. If this scaled up with the cost increase, it would give players a solid reason to keep building labs, but it does not.

Started a Huge map playing the Korath with tech set to fast to help counter the bug. Tech Victory at turn 1 was roughly 24000 pts. Later on it jumped to 68000. Then 118000. Then 123000. And so on. Now a few months into year 3 its closing in on 160000 pts.

This needs to be fixed, the AI can't handle the changing costs and their research pretty much stops. This bug may not break the game completely but it changes it radically. I have yet to play the TA Stardock intended me to play and I would like to as soon as they can manage - wink wink, nudge nudge.

I agree something's not right here but I don't believe the AI's research "just stops." In fact, in my games thus (immense galaxy, painful difficulty, very slow research, rare suns, rare habitable planets, common planets), the AI consistently has a tech advantage over me. It's just odd for a technology that one turn only takes 10 weeks to research to take 20 weeks ten turns later when my tech points have actually increased in that time. That's the difficulty I've been seeing. Then again, as one poster here noted, that does prevent one from going through the tech tree so rapidly. In my last game the best weapon system I had was particle beams III.

A hotfix would have been nice for something this serious. I haven't seen the bug yet, thankfully. I hope the patch comes soon

I've played some games that had it and some that hadn't. Seems to be some race/tech bonus combinations get through unscathed.

The tech costs increase does not annoy ME. In my previous game with the Yor I have been able to go through most of the tech tree by the time I had conquered a huge galaxy.

However, this bug (if it is one) is seriously troubling the AI. Neither the Korx, Altarians, Drath nor Terrans built any military. The Thalans had a strong military but never invaded anyone due to the lack of troop transport... I had such a technological advance that a single small ship was able to defeat any opposing fleet (so imagine my huge dreadnoughts). So this is absolutely breaking the game (unless you want an easy one, but I was playing on Tough setting).

I have begun a new game with the Thalans, same problem seems to occur : while most civilizations encountered have begun building a military for quite a time now, this is not the case for Altarians nor... Arceans. I think I will wait for a patch.

I hadn't played much GC2 before TA and I like to play as the Drengin, so heavy research midgame and beyond is already a chore for me and I write off any difficulties to that. I rush conquer anyway so it wouldn't affect me as much, but I am annoyed at how my games never progress beyond medium hulls unless I force it. I want fleets of all conquering battleships

Having noticed the bug now, it is appalling.

Is that why I can't get a game started? Big booboo there...

Is this perchance related to why I get economic meltdown every game? Maintainance seems to skyrocket until i'm still in the red with 100% tax and no buildings that require maintainance. (before you say it, i'm not covering my planets with labs and factories and I understand the relationships between population, approval rating and income)

The idea of 100% taxes is horrifying.

I know I'd run!