Lights adding up to over brightness

Unity Engine
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In my village-building game, players can among other things place street lights. One player tried how far he could push it and ended up with this:

and I’m fairly sure that’s not how things would work, even if you placed a hundred oil lamps right next to each other.
I’m using the built-in render pipeline with linear color space and defered rendering. These are point lights with a brightness of around 1, no shadows. Should they really add up like that? Is there something I can do about it?

2

I mean adding more lights makes things brighter.

You could shorten the range of the lights and disallow placing too many near each other?

3

It’s not going to be physically accurate because unity’s default light falloff isn’t physically accurate.

4

Yeah, I get that it gets brighter. It just gets… super floodlight bright. From what’s essentially oil lamps.

I can’t reduce the range. I might have to fiddle with the settings if there is a high density of lights.