I've hung off buying the game, waiting for it to be reasonably playable.
Is it ready now?
What do you guys think?

The game is great, you should definitely buy it. And once all the minor issues are sorted out it will be superb.

The one thing that has disappointed me has been the abysmal schedules. No improvement from the default SO3 despite many people having produced detailed schedules themselves.

I hope that one day we just have major EVERY race in the schedules (at least for the UK).

Until then I won't bother playing.

Is it ready, fully, not yet. Still a fair few different in game issues need tweaking + Schedule Editor and Race Builder need fixes and it's desperately in need of a full set of up to date schedules for each part.

Is it reasonably playable. Yes

the game is great. i can only speak from the NH only point of view but i dont find the schedule and issue at all. its a million times better then anything else available at the moment. I remember buying HRM 1 years ago and that had lots and lots of bugs that werent fixed as quickly as these are being fixed.

Having played about three months of the Australian schedule, the game is perfectly playable to me at the moment.