Yes, I think it should.

Would this still work in 4.0?

Honestly surprised, I have made a couple tweaks hopefully removes all limits now. I will maybe look into seeing if there is a way to stop the AI, there probably is I just currently don't know how and not really got the patience to work on this mod.

It works on 3.14 up to a certain point of power level disparity unfortunately.

Far as I can tell this still worked but its been update now anyway with few fixes I guess.

Sorry, commented in wrong mod, your mad works 100 well

@Сосу на всех пика:
This does not change anything to do with espionage.
If you are trying to spy on fallen empires this mod can't do that for you.

Renamed the Rival file so that if you are using Merger of rules this will still work.

As far as I can tell this still works fine. If you have issues its possibly a conflict between mods best way to check this is by using Irony Mod Manager.

pls update!

This isn't working as of 3.7, Paradox must have changed something about the rival mechanics

I'm still playing on 3.5.3, and this mod is NOT working for me.

After re-reading the description page, I guess I could try moving it to the bottom of my load order, and see if that makes a difference.

What I really want is for Paradox to just let me play. The whole idea of requiring a legit "casus belli" annoys me. Did Alexander the Great, or Genghis Khan need a legit "casus belli" before they decided to expand their empires? In this game, sometimes being surrounded by weak empires is more constraining than being surrounded by powerful ones. With the powerful ones, I can at least go to war to achieve my goals. But with the weak ones, they are just a thorn in my side that I can't do anything about because they are careful to block anything I want to do without actually giving me a casus belli. Sorry....went on a rant. It happens.