Is TA buggy?

I certainly consider TA a worthwhile purchase, but there are bugs and a number of niggling flaws/omissions.

The most crippling one is one I haven't myself noticed but does seem to affect a lot of people, which is the technology cost inflation bug which makes technologies increase massively in cost. It is possible I might simply not have noticed this was happening to me.

The Mind Control Center is still broken, although now it does nothing rather than it's previous effect of giving +100 to your economy.

The new tech trees are riddled with a few obvious mistakes (Thalan lacking access to Battle Station Mark I, a number of races lacking mining starbase modules), and a larger number of things that are either errors or questionable design decisions:

* The Drengin research with Slaveling Imagination labs. The Korath start out using the slaveling labs but then switch half-way to using normal research buildings. This looks weird, especially as the Korath follow the Drengin in having slave-based manufacturing.
* races lacking certain Trade Goods, Super Projects and Galactic Achievements seemingly arbitrarily
* the entire situation with morale buildings (seemingly the Terrans and the Arceans have everyone beat, and the Altarians and Drath are particularly screwed).

That's most of what I can think of, although there may be others.

When is the patch coming out?

"Early June"

It is buggy, but the game is still very playable. Just save often

But how can tech inflation be cured with saves?

Yes, just be wary of the tech bug, that can still be playable albeit sloooooowly

I suspect the patch will be out by the time you have got it and wrapped your head round the basics of TA. The usual collection of minor glitches, but they'll get zapped in the June update. Go buy, its fine.

Regards
Zy