In fact at the beginning I strongly agreed with those that said removing rioting, pollution and corruption would be a shame.
Then I read Soren's presentation.
And I wondered, what where the unfun elements taken from Civ2 ? Well, he put it there for me ! Remember how unit support was city-related ? And everytime an unit went out of his
home city, one citizen would become unhappy ? Remember also the "Senate overrides your decision" thing ?
That was really annoying. And unfun.
So I say, if Civ4 is to Civ3 what civ3 is to civ2, then in fact I've got no problem with the unfun elements removed. And I'm sure while playing Civ4 we'll shake our heads wondering how we could abide with pollution and rioting, the same we do now by wondering how we could play (and really enjoy !
) a game where your decisions were overriden and your army was not even supported nationwide...