Sorry, I [don't] work for GPG doing a lot of the coding and I just don't believe this change would be feasible. I would have to find exactly where to change this in the code and then add 1 or 2 lines of code - possibly more if I were to make it an option rather than a change. This would easily take 5-10 minutes to do (no exaggeration, programming is balls) and thus I just can't see it being on our list of things to do.
In other news, we've been working hard all month on new ai that will make singleplayer more exciting than ever. This hasn't been announced yet, but in 1.11 we plan to add a "comp stomped" mode where you and other ai's can be stomped by the new and improved ai's before coming to forums to whine about issues that would only be important if this was a multiplayer centric game.
Thanks for the input though, I'll pass it along (...not).