undesirable (say, Japan versus Ming, to become their tributary and make conquests easier.
What would you do to be removed as a rival when a direct confrontation is...
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Beat them in a war and remove rival. Surpass them so far in tech and development that they are no longer valid.
Ok, thank you, but this is a bit counterproductive for me, as I'm trying to AVOID a war with the immensely more powerful Ming,
You can try to delete your entire army and hope this removes you as a viable ally. Save the game, wait to month and kill the game of it didn't work. Or do a backup of your ironman file.
Move your capital to oceania which you should be doing anyways as Japan.
Not joking the game does factor capital location into rival eligibility calcs
Not joking the game does factor capital location into rival eligibility calcs
Well, I might be a bad player, but confronting the Ming as Japan in 1560 seems a tall order for me..
Colonize Taiwan, Ming will likely accept you as a tributary even if you are their rival. (you don't even an actual province, just start the colony)
Once you are a tributary this will automatically remove rival status.
Once you are a tributary this will automatically remove rival status.
I found that making a colony in taiwan let me become a tributary of Ming even after they rivaled me. If you want to never be rivaled at all, you're best off not taking the Shogunate until most of the Daimyo are gone, since all of those individual armies are what add up to make Japan powerful enough to rival.
Alternatively you can quite readily beat Ming as Japan if you hit when their mandate is the 30s from passing a reform. If you want an easy way to begin blobbing into Korea and weaken Ming, make your first war a trade war (easily wiping Ming's fleets and eating all the armies they try to ship out) while declaring a simultaneous war on Korea before finishing the war vs. Ming. Ideally Ming is left with low manpower/funds, lots of WE, a short truce, and you've taken a few forts in Korea to bleed them out in the next war. With low mandate and no manpower/low merc limit Ming is completely toast.
Alternatively you can quite readily beat Ming as Japan if you hit when their mandate is the 30s from passing a reform. If you want an easy way to begin blobbing into Korea and weaken Ming, make your first war a trade war (easily wiping Ming's fleets and eating all the armies they try to ship out) while declaring a simultaneous war on Korea before finishing the war vs. Ming. Ideally Ming is left with low manpower/funds, lots of WE, a short truce, and you've taken a few forts in Korea to bleed them out in the next war. With low mandate and no manpower/low merc limit Ming is completely toast.
I got tribute, but I messed things up, since Ming broke it soon after and have a -1000 malus ''strategic interest''. No amount of persuasion seems enough to convince the Ming to take me back.
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You guys have such ordinary and boring far-eastern problems... 
Do you know how ridiculous it is being France, UK or Spain and rivaled by Ming, and then being covertly sabotaged entire game for no reason? (They fixed it in 1.23 though right?)
Do you know how ridiculous it is being France, UK or Spain and rivaled by Ming, and then being covertly sabotaged entire game for no reason?
(They fixed it in 1.23 though right?)
It's a matter of trial and error to find what the Ming AI ticks off and cancel your tributary.
Oddly, taking over most of Korea was not enough, but vassalizing the Philipines was.
Oddly, taking over most of Korea was not enough, but vassalizing the Philipines was.