I suggested to lower the ressources to be uploaded to lvl the beacons. This does not alter the force balance in any aspect. It just makes it more appealing to have a beacon.
Currently -50% ressource uploads came in the mean time, which is great, as it meets my initial suggestion. Its a great improvement as it favours smaller players with less ressource storage capabilities to still contribute to the process of leveling a beacon.
Another suggestion is to lower the number of uploads, e.g 50 instead of 100. This would even more favour smaller leagues to contribute to the beacon leveling process as due to the member limit, one quickly faces lack of presence initially to actually complete the beacon leveling process. This is all to disturbing if a league minority wants to have some fun with a beacon or if the league is rather low in membership.
As to the darkessence, a suggestion would be to darken forces already at lvl 1 (+inf), at lvl 2 (+spies), at level 3 (+kav) , at level 4 (+Okk) at level 5 (+Best). The frequency of balurs visits is to be increased proportionally with the def value stored inside.
All of these could be a modest attempt to regain the interest in having beacons,even the ones @lvl1 , as really too much beacons are lvl1 nowadays , with less of a fight as in the old days, where they used to be 'owned' by leagues or alliances on the other extreme end.
On the other hand, for me Balur troops may even take beacons gradually back , if deff worth is not over some minimum threshold eg. 250k, as to clear those lvl 1 owned low defended beacons just being a waste of everyones time and rewarding such a league with a higher ranking for no particular reason.
I don't see why the restriction of fireballs applies to beacons. Just allow them as a compensation for the extra darkessence and less ressource uploads required .
