Overwhelmed by corruption

[SimonRobinson]

I'm having troubles with corruption. Playing at King level,
I found all my towns more than about 10-12 squares
away from my capital lose all shields and commerce
beyond the first one to corruption. I wasn't too surprised
when I was a despot, but I swapped to republic AND
started building courthouses and it didn't make any difference:
I was still only getting one shield and one gold per town, even
for towns of size 5-6.

Am I missing something? This basically means that all my
towns away from my capital are actually sinking gold,
after I've paid for improvements.

Thanks for any advice

 

[cutiestar]

Have you got the first patch yet?? that fixes corruption, i personally have never noticed any sickeningly bad corruption levels in my game, i am monarch.