In Civilization especially in the start didn't have much to do. In Colonization you had always plenty of do in each turn IMO.
If you had your infrastructure planned then you were looking for new place to build colony or example seek advantage in naval warfare etc.
You mean like strategic resources?
There are only few in Civilization and when you get them it isn't exactly you do anything with them but just get to produce units as long as you have them. In Colonization you had to organize the logistics and the production of those goods. Including placing your colonies into good places, constructing nice field of roads with wagons moving colony to colony. Taking care natives and "make them know their place" in your plans and being aware of naval activity example pirates. That's plenty to do COMPARED to Civilization where you just automatically make road to resource with improvement and voila! everything is ready for you to produce the unit/building/wonder you want now. Before especially IV after adding terrain improvements etc., earlier Civilizations were quite simplistic. However even some of the newer stuff is just fancy pansy stuff which you basically forget after few games.
Before saying anything like of that just think of sec what it requires for player to produce one unit of dragoon/cavalry in Colonization compared to Civilization. Yeah, now see how stupid you look now?
It's fine if you don't like Colonization, but I'm sorry that your point would be so much more sensible if you wouldn't then claim Civilization to be more "complex" as counterexample.
It's matter of taste really since I personally found myself in Civilization quite often just waiting turn to end to get forward since I was utterly bored to be creating some buildings and wonders that would take forever and nothing important seen in the territory to take advantage of.
Also it sounds like the new founding father element brings new choices to the game, let alone the diplomacy between natives and other europeans which weren't so much present in the original game.
But be that as it may, it's your choice to like it or not but I find it utterly strange to tell it's the Colonization where there isn't that much to do. Of course Civilization coming to version IV has evolved during time and it of course remains to be seen how much Colonization has evolved.
And yes, for me it means something. Civilization fanatics which personally I'm not have got three games let alone expansions/mods whatever during the period I have waited from the moment Colonization first came out to get at least something and finally it's happening. So please shut the **** up that it's not big deal
. It might be not for you but others...Just think that Civ II, III and IV wouldn't have ever come out. You would be crying right now.
EDIT: And this all is said in good spirit
, it is just frustrating to hear one mock a game that has been waited for so long and saying it would be almost like the same that it would never come out while one has himself enjoyed countless of hours of his own favourite game with numerous versions of it.
I have to wait until december 15th. 
coming up soon 
