The only real gain would be if it replaces strong systems with weak—unless we were to reach a containment region scenario with all eight simultaneously, which I imagine now to be what you had in mind. If that is what it does without being fiddled manually, and if no new forms of fiddling occur, I think then comes the peripheral progress puzzle once one reaches ten Alerts each!
Yes, that's roughly what I was thinking. Putting down excessive Alerts per week will push the perimeter outwards, so make them individually a lot weaker.
One-by-one, contain each Maelstrom so that its increased Alert budget is irrelevant, leaving it a tiny nature reserve to stop the Titan attacking, and then clear out the rest.
Indra will have got pretty large by the end of this, but it's not near anything massively important (some Ion Distributor production which has backup near Lave, some Marlinists, that's about it) so giving it 40 Alerts a week (20 of which end up on the "wrong" side of the bubble anyway) for a while isn't a big deal.
Then at the end, collapsing 40 long-range Controls a week will shrink Indra rapidly and stop it using the full budget either. By the time periphery progress becomes relevant again, it'll probably be small enough that cooldowns are stopping it placing the full ten anyway.
It's certainly going to be much easier to wait for Ram Tah to come up with something, though.
