Azyre and everyone who suggested that the problem lies in beta missions: yes that's a problem too, but it's a different one.

Regarding this particular change it does not matter whether you acquire those tokens/beacons during 3 months or 3 hours. What matters for us is that you can kill hundreds of NPCs in a matter of minutes. That's something we don't want you to do with any mechanic, simple as that. If we would fix the beta missions and leave the beacon rule as it is, it would still be a problem that you can do it, even if it would be more rare then.

Dazamin: damn you, now everyone is gonna think you're my alt

Doable matters. and its not doable. The absolute most you can run at the same time is 8-10 but that is pushing the boundaries of lag and the ability to get the loot. More likely 4-6 are run at one time. Why Zoom said 50 in a minute is beyond me, because it cant be done and definitely not done in a minute.

That little experiment we did, we did not recover more than 10 beacons or so worth of loot, so we lost 90 beacons and 8 bots.  But give it a try and see for yourself.

my experience is that 6 is a "good" number for this. you should have 3 ppl with guns and a scarab as looter. also a support with nexus mods will help.
you should have 3 ppl with guns because if you dont you might have issues keeping the beacons from despawning. if 4 or more waves explode and you are not able to tag them fast enough again then they will despawn. thats why 3 ppl is good for that.

so you should have a minimum of 3 ppl if you fit the other roles to alts. if you dont do that then more like 4-5.

of cource solo is a option too. 3 beacons are doable. but is a pain and can result in partial despawns from time to time. also is a lot of target swaping all the time. also explotions are not so nice until you reach at least 4 beacons at a time.

if you go higher on beacons you risk despawns and a lot of lag. and is no fun getting the loot. fps drop to a amount thats no fun even on a decent pc. even worse if you have multible accounts running.

Inda: actually the thin ice you mention would be balancing the game by keeping all the "fun" but bad game mechanics in there just so players don't leave. If we would want to do that we would simply place a NIC dispenser button on every gamma.

But ok, I listen to reason and I understand beacon popping is a fun thing to do. We still need a cap, but since we only have a problem with extremities, we'll modify the rule so that you can place up to 3 beacons in a 500m radius. After that it's a balancing matter, but don't expect it to change a lot.

If the problem is people running 50 beacons in 1 minute then being able to run only 3 simultaneously is laughable. Why not raise it to somewhere a lot of people have suggested(5-6)? That seems to be the amount most of the people with semi-big groups are doing too.

Why exactly was multi-beaconing removed from alpha? Is the restriction still relevant..?

Zoom, you da man, despite what my corpys say about you.

An excellent compromise. Thanks.
You could reach God-like status by banning Ville permanently. 
Just sayin'

Do the same with bombs

I'm smart because I'm selling my overcharged tokens to you.

Immaturity at its finest.  I'm so glad I'm an adult.

I'm just going to say this once but if you can't take responsibility of your comments from your main character because your a coward then that's on you.  But I'm not going to talk to a forum alt by a player who can't man up and take responsibility for their actions.