Personally, I was not disappointed with the beacon in any respect. Yeah, loot was poor, but I have been on many beacons where I ended up having to pay in at the end. It's a risk, but, imo, worth it, for the fun.
Despite loot being automatically distrbuted equally among those in the beacon event, the Gloryhound still made the decision to pool the loot, and sell it, as we had done prior to VU10.0. Classic example of why we did this... one person looted one robot flare filter, one person looted THREE robot flare filters, and the other four looted none.... and of those that looted the robot flare filters, neither were in top 3 for bots destroyed.
Sooo, to avoid any bitterness on anyone's part, I suggest that nobody rely on the "equal distribution" of the loot.