CyberPtra You are right, it's something that's going to be very difficult to balance and figure out.
From my perspective as a player in a smaller group the pre/re system is basically guaranteed to cap my progress throughout the round because I only have 2-3 people I can ask for help but the people we are going against have 20. There is nothing in the game that can make up those odds. The group with the +1 pretal wins, my group will get run over immediately with no recourse whatsoever.
BUT with CLI at least I can take the initiative and hit someone and earn protection for it, rewarding me for being aggressive and not farming. One system punishes me for attacking and the other rewards it.
Another reason I believe CLI to be at least worth a try is lets say there's a certain loudmouth in a big alliance that I want to take down a peg or two, which system do you think would be better for me to do that?