"Why can't we all just get along?"

These words were more or less the inspiration behind this mod.  I started a new FFA game, myself and 2 normal AIs (unlocked teams) and tried to win the game exclusively through diplomacy.  Apart from the a few scout ships and one colony-class capital ship, I had no army.  I conducted no military research, just colonized several neutral planets and researched my way through the civ tree.  Essentially, I was Switzerland

At any rate, the first offer I got from AI 1 was to kill 6 structures of AI 2.  I was like "Dude, I have NO ARMY!  What do you want me to do, trade 'em to death?!"  Then a bit later AI 2 asked me to give it 600 crystal.  I had to do some quick black market switching, but I made it happen.  I got my 25% rep, then he stayed silent for the rest of the game.  Actually, at some point, I think he asked me to destroy 10 of AI 1's ships.  Once again, I viciously pointed at my ONE (*cough* underpowered *cough*) capital ship.  I think he ignored me, however

I got frustrated at this point, because I now had no way to increase my reputation with either AI further.  Needless to say, my small empire (notably *unlike* Switzerland) got smashed into tiny pieces of shiny space glitter.  I decided to make some changes.

In this mod, I basically make the AI much more, errr...understanding.  It's much easier, without being totally unbalancing (I think). 

-Rewards (reputation and resource) are increased
-Mission completion requirements are decreased
-The AI is willing to form alliances/treaties/etc sooner

And a couple other changes.  I think I covered every change in the included readme file.  I just submitted the file to Stardock a bit ago, so it'll be a bit before I can post a link to it.  I assume they'll be spending the time making sure I didn't replace every other line of gameplay.constants with "F**K U LOL HAV A VIRUS LOLS"  (I didn't do that, btw )
At any rate, once they've green-lighted it, I'll update the post with a URL.  SoaSE isn't the first game I've modded, but this is the first time I've made something that I submitted for others to try.  It's been reasonably well-tested, and it only made my computer burst into flame a couple times, so I think it'll turn out mostly OK for you guys   (Just, errr, make sure you don't have any gasoline or C4 in/on/around your PC >.>)