[Jintao]

I do not think stats are the cause of the issues you are trying to adress fotran. But maybe interesting if you make a seperate topic about it to explore it.

The recent stats have been a bit more offensive. Which means landing is easier and defending is harder. Thus every alliance HC will try to lower the number of possible hostiles by napping other alliances.

If the stats are defensive it's harder to land attacks because almost no effort is required to stop the attack. In other words the alliance needs less resources to defend the members and few to no naps are required to ensure the players are happy/the alliance does well.

If the stats are in the middle. I'll presume there will be some naps, but not that many as with offensive stats.

In the end the result is the same. People do not like getting attacked while wanting to always land their own attacks. Too many attacks makes members unhappy/makes alliances drop ranks. So HC's avoid having to deal with the issue by making naps.