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I would think, that most players would want a tough Ai opponnent for SP play.. If (which has been done in many games, most recently war in the pacific to the Japenese player) players find the AI or an ai race to strong, complaints start coming in, then in the next patch, you start to see it the race degraded to a ineffective one. Myself, I would rather have a tougher ai opponnent even if its unbalanced, just to make the game interesting. It would be boring if I won all the time in SP. Now MP is different matter altogether... Just my 2 cents.