ill be honest i HATE a game that has cheats IMHO to me a game that cheats excessivly is a game the developers didnt want to spent time on and wanted it out on the shelfs grabbing money .. so instead of spending extra time at the cost of some money they put in flashy stuff and cheats and call it a game ... i love SR2010 and one of the reason despite faults is that you guys didnt choose to go flashy and fill the game with a buncha cheats.
ill be honest you have one of the broadest strategy game ive seen in MANY years and i dont want the sequal to be a more streamlined flashy with 2 new features that 90% of the developers do now days.
for example SSI did Fabulous with panzer general, allied general, and pacisfic general and peoples general. all with a mediocre engine... but then they upgraded to panzer general 2 and made it even bettwe with just a few tweeks.. but they got the taste of big money there and mutilated thier franchize with Horrible bugg ridden gimmiky games like starship general, fantasy general and the franchize killer panzer general 3d !.
new world killed thier wildly popular heroes of might an magic series after thier first 3 by making homm 4 and 5 flashy shallow bug ridden ai cheating bug fests.
Please dont follow the trend of strategt game developers of the last decade!
as for ai... you dont even have to come up with any new wild ideas! you have launching points to work off in this game. you have airborn units .... well make them usable by UI and feasable to the player and update the transportation ssystem in game!.
you have special forces units... have them "stealth into a country and sabatage a water supply or have some syphoning some reserch from the enemies lab both slowing thier reaserch down and boosting yours some.
you have ships and subs that can lay and remove mines .... well start having them use them!
you have transport ships ... whell let the AI use them and acyally land anphibious assaults. tweaks the diplomatic system some and allow you to send expiditionary forces to an ally or another country so that you can fight wars by proxy with out declaring war and taking the huge economic hit.
make it so large allied organizations to exist and work. like Nato,SATO,Warsaw pact. ETC so that when one country is attacked in a mega alliance even if the allies dont declare war they send expiditionary forces to your country and possibly monitary or material support.
this game is so huges with so many things to do you dont need to rebuild it ... just ad to the massive greatness it already has and possibly a small graphical update.