I'd prefer that it not remain intact for single-player. While I've sometimes raced without using weapons myself, it always ticked me off when a backmarker AI ship I'm passing hit me on the last lap with a weapon that screwed up a new single-race record time to put in at the top of the records tables. I'd rather be able to set difficulty levels by making the AI simply race better. That would also make me improve my own skills. The difficulty of racing online against live humans depends on the humans, and it would be easy to find someone as good as or better than me, which at this point, I can't [race online, that is]; hence my interest in making single-player AI better.