Rivals--I would like to see a change in how a nation is considered eligible

[Loren Pechtel]

I've got rivals that are at the low end of the range of what can be considered a rival. Every war they drop below being valid and are dropped as a rival. Soon they are valid rivals again, though.

Instead of immediately dropping a nation once it's below the rating it would make much more sense if they were only dropped if they stayed too low for 5 or 10 years.

 

[StatikShocker]

yeah its pretty damn stupid when you wipe out the french army and their country remains largely intact, and they get dropped as a possible rival before they can rebuild.
I'd put a province count modifier into the equation to compensate for temporary loss of army/navy.

 

[lockdown51]

I agree. Often your rival is dropped only to be readdable (is that even a word? able to be added again) short time down the road. In the mean time you have stopped embargoing them since they weren't a rival and can't re-embargo them since you have that truce timer.

 

[cleef]

+1 on this!

 

[Lord Finnish]

I think the whole rival system is a bit meh, or there should be only 1 rival for each country (England vs. France, Ottos vs. Austria, etc.)

 

[Dnote]

The bonuses should scale up or down based on the rivals relative power to you as well.