How in the hello do you have that many entities flame? Most of my lights are 300 or 500 in my map.. And I don't have that many... Do you just make a solid grid and copy/paste or what? lol
Seems to me any respectable map (Not mine) could easily stay under the cap... Now I do have ambient light set to 25.. I think it looks better and more smoothed over..
Oh and yeah my lights are 300-500 but then i tinkered with pointscale till i found the sweet spot.. (.4)