Difficulty settings question.

I have read that the "tough" difficulty setting is maximum AI capability with no cheats, but when I set the difficulty to tough and look at the AI personality settings, it sais their "natural abilities" get a +50% bonus.

This is the racial bonuses that you buy when you create/modify your race, right (like +X percent to production, research, economy, etc.)? Am I misunderstanding this, or does using the "tough" setting essentially make the AI races a lot stronger than my race?
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Tough/Intelligent is indeed supposed to be the level at which the AI has no bonuses but the AI algorithms are fully unlocked. I'm not entirely sure though how the values shown on the personality screen correlate with the difficulty levels. Will have to see what the devs know about this after the weekend.
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Yea, I guess the real question is what does "natural abilities +50%" mean exactly?