What AT needs is a huge conspiracy to shake things up.
If it needs that, then it means that a whole lot of people actually want things to remain exactly as they are.
You can't both support the status quo and whine about it. So either people like it, or they want to change it. What is it? It really is in the hands of the players. If static alliances make an island boring then NO AMOUNT OF CODING OR GM INTERFERENCE WILL SOLVE THAT.
