Another diplomacy idea:
Through out playing the game Majors ask for (demand) money from you. In which I think that Botf1 has the game heavy weighted on your favor of major races approval for you, if you provide the demanding amount to that race. With the options of the trading of specific materials in Supremacy; credits should not hold as much weight as it does in Botf1. So on to my idea of counter offerings.
Got the idea with the silliness of what EU and the USA are going through right now with Iran. I hate to poke at a real life matters, but I thought it would be interesting to be part of the game to say the less.
So say if the Klingons are demanding 200,000 credits from you and you want to keep in good favor with them for what ever reason, but you don’t want to bankrupt your empire by giving up all your credits. So you make a counter offer. Instead of 200,000 credits; you offer 100,000 credits and the rest in materials expenses and data exchange. So depending on you current approval ratings with the Klingons say they are respectful. You could offer them by using drop down menu options and offer something like the following (100,000 credit, 1000 tons of deuterium, and 250 teraquads of data.) as a counter offer.
In saying that would this to be close to the equivalent of 200,000 credits. You then send this counter offer back the Klingons, and could have the options to accept of decline your offer, or request the original 200,000 credits again. You the can weight your options of rejecting the 200,000 credit proposal the Klingons are asking for. Negations would last no more then 3 turns of game play, but if you decline their second request you endure I large penalty and can fall out of favor with the Klingons depending on your current approval ratings with them.
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i.e. the Bandi want to claim the a start near to their solar system and they offer their resources or large amount of credits to Romulans to help them expand to that star. Romulians accept the offer and send a colony ship to that star as they go to colonize the solar system a pop up asks do Romulans would you like to claim this system for the Bandi. If they accept the request a Bandi population will be deposited in that solar system.
