3 was different because of curruption. It made cities not next to your capital suck. It took me a while to figure out how to get around that, and that curruption part made world domination more difficult. Even with a democracy, your cities would still suck if they were too far away.
Someone figured out the curruption formula, and it was based on the distance from the capital AND the # of cities closer to the capital. Not closer or equal. So if you build 30 cities an equal distance from the capital, then they would all have low curruption. This trick was almsot necessary to win at harder difficulties.
At first I thought the implementation of curruption was so bad that they would fix it in a patch. But they didnt.
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