In civ 3, you could switch to Communism and those waste/corruption problems would be over, but with the democracy, you had all the money to rush production.The corruption in Civ3 ruined it for me. Once beyond a ridiculously small distance from your palaces, cities only produced one unit of production or cash, so you had to feed them with units from your core cities in order to build anything,
So I find Civ4 far, far better, But it would have been nice to be able to feed new cities with extra production, sometimes.
Civ IV is the best computer game ever, but I really don't play many computer games.
In this forum, almost everyone will praise CIV, go to the Civ3 forum and it would be the other way round.
i more like Civ4, though Civ3 is pretty good