Originally posted by Scott Spaziani
How do I get rid of Corruption and Waste in my cities far way from a place or Forbidden Place?
What is the best way to learn technolgy fast?
There is an optimal city number for each map size in Civ III. For a standard map, I think it's 16. Once you get about 50% more than the optimal city number, you start getting serious corruption. There is little you can do about it. Courthouses help some.
Make sure you have patch 1.29f. In earlier versions, corruption was worse.
The best way to learn tech fast is to learn to trade for it. If you learn writing in 40 turns, and nobody else has it, you can trade it for pottery, the wheel, masonry, warrior code, and bronze working. So instead of spending 40 turns to get one tech, you spent 40 turns to get 6 techs. Tech trading gets easier at each level because on Chieftain, the AI researches really slow so they never have anything to trade to you. As you increase difficulty, the AI researches faster, therefore, they have more stuff to trade that you need.
Also, don't waste time on dead end techs. In Ancient times, you don't have to research Monarchy or Republic. You could research Republic and skip Monarchy, and allow the AI to get it. Then trade a more advanced tech to them for Monarchy.