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We tested this a bit and didn't feel it added a lot of value, so it's shelved for the time being.

Yes, BPOs

perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't this multiplier make it excessively easy to make large alliances immune to wardecs by small entities?

Let's say I've got an alliance of 3k people --> 320M per week war cost
We'll pretend there's 4 weeks in a month and say that this means 1.28B per month cost

In my alliance of 3k, I find 4 people to make 1 man corps
All corps then declare war on my alliance, and I pay the bills.

By my count then that's 4 people all having to pay 5 B (give or take) per month, so a cost to my alliance of some 20B per month. Then, if anyone else wants to wardec me, they have to now pay 6.4B per month for the honour (1.6B per week). Ok, sure other big alliances can do this and try and suppress my actions, but I only need to drop wars as needed to maintain the shield at the level I desire. Anyone small on the other hand would be completely shut out from being able to declare war on me, and for the most part all of this should be pocket change for my alliance.

Unless, like I said, I missed something.

It's not as though the person initiating this scheme would not get something in return; the players involved still get an additional month of game time added to their regular player account(s) for engaging in alt generation fraud.

My corp was probably a bad example as we are small enough that we are in the 50 mil plateau. Some sample numbers of people gaming the system without extra accounts, and only dedicating one character slot to the gaming:

• 200 members (67 mil) -> 400 members (104 mil)
• 400 members (104 mil) -> 800 members (150 mil)
• 2000 members (258 mil, Eve Uni size) -> 4000 members (371 mil)
• 8900 members (554 mil, Goonswarm size) -> 17800 members (774 mil)

The possible abuse gets more and more egregious with larger corp size. I do not expect Goonswarm to do this (they typically do not give enough fucks) but E-Uni, RvB, and other hisec/lowsec entities will. This will lead to artificially inflated membership counts, obnoxious "my corp is safer than yours because it's bigger" peen-waving, some corps requiring mandatory alt joining, and other nasties. My question to CCP SoniClover is whether this is intended and expected, or whether it's going to be addressed.

Are the module bpcs for the non-seeded mods racial, or will they drop from all mag/radar sites?

They'll drop from all.

It's usually a pretty good technique for pointing out poor arguments; perceived expense is not what I would consider a good justification for this kind of meta-gaming.

Congratulations CCP SoniClover, you official encoded favoritism into a game mechanic. Not that I have a problem with larger Corps having the in game advantage of more manpower, more money, more ships, and a bigger brian trust than smaller corps, that's the game. But it's the extra concord protection you just gave them in the form of escalating war cost that steps outside of player created benefits, and regardless of what you think, screams favoritism.

And the worst part is how you justify it by painting all large entities as passive victims that don't shoot back (I hate to break this to you but many small corps are taking a "risk" as it is declaring war on large ones), and declaring that since small corp grieving doesn't occur now, putting in a huge finical incentive to do so is not a problem.

You know at this point I'd say just give Eve Uni the damn war exception NPC corps have, and treat the rest of the players corps the same!

Hmm, so previously missiles etc get renamed so as to avoid confusion and bring clarity/everything onto the same page as it where, and yet you are now releasing new modules which are not on the same page eg. some on the market and some only via dropped BPCs.

Dont you think after your previous changes your new implementation is rather, er, contradictory and to put it bluntly, stupid?