Beacon fuel & timing

[Nightstar]

There have always been issues with beacon timers showing different values to permissioned users (even sometimes alts) from the owner where gleam club is involved. They said once they had it all fixed but compactness and reclaim each brought back old or confusingly similar issues.

I could have a misunderstanding of some older comments from James and/or Luca as well TBH.

@Xaldafax

No one should EVER risk their beacons by letting gleam club expire if they have a build they want to keep. It isn’t worth any of the risk in my view.

Probably true. You should be able to put fuel in your beacon at least near your gleam club expiry and see that it extends your beacon expiry past your gleam club expiry.

@james

Owning 2 months of Gleam Club is equivalent to having 2 months of fuel in your beacon.

You can still put fuel in the beacon.
If you then put a Greater Beacon Fuel into a beacon it will fuel the beacon up to 16 weeks.

All beacons are protected by 2 months of Gleam Club, but this beacon has 4 months of fuel.

There is more around about having gleam club that is less time than the beacon fuel but it’s mainly in conversations about beacons that existed before the gleam club was purchased. I can’t find any actually less confusing comments

@lucadeltodecso

Gleam club sets beacons to expire no sooner than the gleam club subsription.

Buying 1 month GC means any beacon with fuel less than 1 month will ‘be fueled’ by GC up to 1 month; any beacon can still be fueled higher than the gleamclub duration (so you can pre-fuel beacons as your GC is running low if you dont intend to renew), and in this case the beacon already had more fuel than GC would provide, so GC has no effect on the beacon right now.

With moderate confidence you should be able to fuel your beacons in the days or weeks prior to gleam club expiring so that they will be fueled past the gleam club expiration.

I cant find anything to explicitly confirm my earlier post, or mention of any courtesy extension. James did have quite the tendency to reveal critical info only in PMs or on discord though.