Quote Originally Posted by issaikhaan View Post
Airpower, while not exactly balanced, was ridiculous amounts of fun. Helped make up for the less enjoyable, zerg-rush settler and army spam you had to do early on to keep up.
Infinite City Sprawl was one of the things that really annoyed me about Civ 3. It made the late game a massive chore and I was very pleased that they cut back on it in Civ 4. I'll admit that it was even more of a problem in SMAC, particularly after ocean city tech arrived, but the rest of SMAC's features made up for it in a way that Civ 3 never managed.