The people making 2T ISK/week are technetium miners

1.1 mechanics are an absolute joke, they swing it too far back in favour of giant alliances

Exponential costs for allies is just pants-on-head ********, especially when it can be small 40 man corps facing an aggressor with a thousand or more pilots.

There absolutely must be some form of balance for those types of edge cases - you were quick enough to rush out a balance fix when fifty corps jumped on as allies to interdict goonies in hisec, after all.

LOL at it costing 10 trillion isk / $300,000 for the allies against goonswarm. Pathetic. Who allowed that change to go through? Couldn't you have at least done something partway sensible like cap the ally costs so that bringing on extra allies after X corps would only be a fixed amount each time (e.g. 250m for each new ally after the 20th)?

Perhaps an aggressor against goonswarm should be charged only for the couple of dozen pilots you have in empire (as targets) rather than being billed for the full 9000.

Oh please, there is simply no defending a mechanic that, when rushed out, suddenly drops a ten trillion isk ally bill on a rather interesting bit of ~emergent gameplay~ effectively shutting it down instantly and preventing anything like it ever happening again. They should have taken the time to work out how to properly balance it, not just stamp it out.

Thats social consequences for you Richard Desturned. If you are in an unpopular organization making wardecs is supposed to be a risky business. At least that was the stated intent of the 1.0 devblog. But 1.1 removes social consequences from the largest alliances in the game by rendering the scale of defensive allying null by introduction of a ridiculous exponential cost multiplier. At the edge case of 9000 vs 100 then nobody is going to be selective - you need to at a couple of hundred allies before you are even close to parity in on the books numbers.

If CCP were to go on record with the admission it can't balance competitive game mechanics where the largest entities of the game are concerned then :shrug: really - thats would be a pretty damning admission.

Because it costs an aggressor with 9000 members the cost of a t2 fit cruiser to wardec an entity 100 times smaller than itself and in order for the defender to assemble a coalition to equal the attacker side would cost more dollars than exist on this planet.

But is the intent of the inferno 1.1 changes to ensure there is an overwhelming game benefit to be had by cramming 9000 people into the same alliance?

Well you do of course have a great many advantages that come from pure numbers. Many many aspects of the game provide this to the side that simply "brings more." But my question to you was specifically about a mechanic bias in favour of "more" in a single alliance structure. Things don't neccessarily work like that even in 0.0 - where the dogpile is unlimited and you can literally bring the kitchen sink into a fleet fight. So why specifically should 9000 in a single entity be specifically advantaged (by game design bias) in empire warfare?