KingLear Yes it can be boring at the top, however, of the 6 targets that you have available, only 1 of them is in your province. The rest are all fair game for you to hit. You choose not to because you're in an alliance with them. Which is absolutely your right to do! I'm not complaining that you have a large alliance, that's how this game works. It's social, and these alliances will likely shift as they always do. But I am pointing out that you are making the game boring by yourself by not participating and attacking.
And no one can convince me that if I'm in first, or take Lear for example as he currently is sitting at the top, that I or he should get protection for successfully winning an attack.
I can get behind CLI working to help people who attack upwards, but I can't get behind the part of it that helps the biggest get further ahead. That sounds counter productive. The player in first should never get these kind of catch up mechanic aids. They should have to be skilled to stay at the top.
And I can also see how CLI would make people attack more often (when the player base gets larger) and of course I'm always willing to try new changes and test them out, so long as reason and logic is used to make sure that these things become fair but also balanced. Fair is everyone gets CLI on every attack, balanced is only the people who deserve and need it get.