AI cheats

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I placed this post in the main forum earlier, perhaps it should have been here.
The computer fires at your biggest ships and you shoot at his smallest ships, there is no way to change this either. Could we fix this, please? The fire should be spread out randomly or you should have a way to select your prefferred targeting.
I love strategy games but this kind of thing ruins it. There was a similar problem in World at War at one point, don't know if there still is, have not played it in a while. The computer AI would fire all its shot at one tank at a time until it was routed, and then move on to the next one.
If you want to make the game harder & better, improve the strategy and AI, don't program it to cheat. I know, Matrix Games did not program the AI for Reach For The Stars.
I have also noticed that tha Hive, (not sure about others, but probably) seems to know where you do not have a fleet and send attack fleets to the systems with no fleets. This is without sending a scout ship to check first.