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Nyx you can do that now just ask them to be a protectorate or to be subjugated to you.
Oh I know that I can do it, but the AI will never offer such terms when it's beaten and needs to get out of the war. It just keeps getting more and more angry. And it's nowhere near as intuitive to demand a trade in the form of a protectorate treaty in return for peace.
I've often tried demanding protectorate and subjugation treaties from the AI, but they are well over 10xs as likely to accept surrender as those two based on actual Messages sent in the game. I haven't looked at the data files to see how it calculates such things, I just know the effect in gameplay.
If I have glassed two systems and not lost a single ship the AI ought to be begging for mercy, not pissed off and rejecting offers of protection from me.
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