I don't mind the unreasonable demands so much as that you get a diplomatic penalty for not excepting them (such as when an ally demands a resource without anything in return). The AI should know their demand is unreasonable and not penalize you for it.

I too have seen such behavior in many games, In ES I mostly see "PLEASE MAKE PEACE WITH US! WE EVEN GIVE YOU ONE OF OUR SYSTEMS!!!" I like those offers, they make me feel mighty

I just play a few 4x games but i never saw an AI with reasonable offers.

They need to rework the diplomacy aspect of the game really bad. I hope that's a big part of the next DLC.

@Igncom1: Don't mix up Vanilla-Diplo-AI-Behaviour with Disharmony-AI-Behaviour!



In Vanilla it all depends on how much the AI likes you.

In Disharmony, with AMAS, it also considers stuff like: Am I a peacfull empire? How much military does this guy have? May he be interested on the same systems I am interested for?



So the answer to the question to:

"is Harmony any more reasonable with AI trade offers?"

Is yes. But then again it also heavily depends on who you are dealing with:

Sophon and Amoeba mostly will even give you stuff just to make peace with them and even more stuff for other treaties. Craver, Hissho, UE and Sheredyn will hardly be convinceable to anything but the rest of the races are relatively reasonable.

There is a lot of 'gunboat diplomacy' in endless space.



Usually deals like this are given if the AI believes you to be weak or to have a small fleet. Strength is respected and so increasing the size of your standing fleets should be considered to try and muscle out a better deal.