Sure, it wouldn’t make much difference to those that are using Gleam Club.
And I’ll admit, I don’t have any numbers allowing me to know for sure how many players are in the Gleam Club.
But from my experience with other games, I can certify that most players are going to do without what’s on the shop.
I also know for a fact that everybody doesn’t use greater fuel.
None of the players I know do, they’d rather keep the components to make other things like food.
I had a mud hut right next to me that despawned overnight because it was out of fuel.
Denying any of this by saying “yeah, but it wouldn’t impact those that are using Gleam Club” is meaningless to the conversation.
Reducing the beacon fuel time for someone with less that 50k prestige would reduce the impact of mud huts. 50k to get back to how the current beacon last seems fair to me, since any decent player should be able to reach that fairly easily.
Pestige is about progression :
This suggestion would further the notion of progression tied to prestige, rewarding the hard-working builder by telling him “yeah, your thing is more prestigious than before, it would be a shame to loose it, so beacon fuel will last longer in here”.
You can keep saying “yeah but the greater fuel is fine as it is”, but I don’t see a reason not to make it last longer, though.