Option One.

Most players have voted for a limit.

It appears that many still do not understand the Force Limit concept as many vote for a Force Limit so high that it would be ineffective.

Look at the Beacon/territorial map.

If the game is to include the feature Dark Essence and troop darkening in a meaningful way, the existing rules are not producing those results.

1) increase the frequency and strength of dark horde attacks to increase dark essence gathered at beacons

2) establish Option 1 as the Attack Force Limit.

3) establish reduced Attack Force Limits at lower level beacons

4) review the availability of offensive forces that use little or no food as these may defeat the Force Limit concept

Hello yes but were is the beacon game ?   In a video  to introduce the game it states  rule over Dark shine nobody rules over anything in this  game certainly not with beacons  so it takes a lot of troops  to take and hold a beacon   what  is the incentive to keep and hold  none worthwhile    now                           if  you could keep and collect  beacons to rule over an empire  ( territories  )  what could be the mecanics  ?   has you hold a beacon  the longer you hold it the easyer it get's to protect it     what would  be the   mechanic's   of that  ..............   being able to  fortify a beacon     in a league  

Attack Limits should only be imposed if Defense Limits are imposed.  100K Defense and Offense Force Limit.  This would encourage teamwork again in beacon attacks vs single player destroying beacons because most players cannot "afford" to play the beacon game right now.  Same with the fort if fort downgrades will continue to be an achievement.  Currently a beacon league attack with 15 million will do VERY LITTLE damage against a well defended beacon...So why attack, it does not even soften the beacon.  What attack limits on beacons will cause...Big Players and leagues to defend beacons past the attack limits, and then it becomes basically impossible to get a league off a beacon.  Look at the level 20 forts...no one attacks them because it will cost 20 million sapphires to revive your troops if you attack with over 1 billion n offense and lose.  Who is going to do that

Why just an attack limit? They will be smashed immediately without any points at a beacon.

Def- / Off-Limit per player makes more sense. 

Then there are more shifts, even smaller players can hold a 5 lev. beacon 

Blaze said:

Attack Limits should only be imposed if Defense Limits are imposed.  100K Defense and Offense Force Limit.  This would encourage teamwork again in beacon attacks vs single player destroying beacons because most players cannot "afford" to play the beacon game right now.  Same with the fort if fort downgrades will continue to be an achievement.  Currently a beacon league attack with 15 million will do VERY LITTLE damage against a well defended beacon...So why attack, it does not even soften the beacon.  What attack limits on beacons will cause...Big Players and leagues to defend beacons past the attack limits, and then it becomes basically impossible to get a league off a beacon.  Look at the level 20 forts...no one attacks them because it will cost 20 million sapphires to revive your troops if you attack with over 1 billion n offense and lose.  Who is going to do that

That's the only reason why Plarium is doing that. They want us to spent more and more and more sapphs for shit. The players are not wasting and reviving enough troops. It's a bottomless pit. First they cancelled beacon massacre event. This is the next step.

Attack Limits should only be imposed if Defense Limits are imposed.  100K Defense and Offense Force Limit.  This would encourage teamwork again in beacon attacks vs single player destroying beacons because most players cannot "afford" to play the beacon game right now.  Same with the fort if fort downgrades will continue to be an achievement.  Currently a beacon league attack with 15 million will do VERY LITTLE damage against a well defended beacon...So why attack, it does not even soften the beacon.  What attack limits on beacons will cause...Big Players and leagues to defend beacons past the attack limits, and then it becomes basically impossible to get a league off a beacon.  Look at the level 20 forts...no one attacks them because it will cost 20 million sapphires to revive your troops if you attack with over 1 billion n offense and lose.  Who is going to do that

option 4 

I would vote for different force limits for different levels of beacon

I assume your suggestions would be for level 5 beacons?

Lower level Fortresses are given better protection, so why not Beacons too?