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Originally posted by Lisif Deoral:
Well... I simply define AI cheating as "it's able to do something impossible for humans"... like getting 5x resources and techs. 
BTW: how do you manage to survive against high bonus AIs?!?!? even exploiting the AI flaws I don't think I would be able to resist... 
Well, let then define human cheating as "it's able to do something impossible for AI"... like tactical combat, swapping population between planets to make them all non-domed, massing figheters in space, constantly refine ship designs to optimize it against AI ships, making "combined arms fleet", etc, etc. In fact, since AI does not learn from one game to another, you shall not be permitted to learn any tricks either. Thus, the one and only one game when you or me or anybody else did not cheat was the very first one.
Putting all of it in perspective, AI bonus is an essential part of any strategic computer game and is not a "cheating" in any form.