I believe SDE's orignal idea is let more fleets get harbors and more to practice. However the method is incurrect. The output will be killing active players from largest fleets in each server.
Suppose 4 largest fleets occupy a harbor each and they are rank 1-4. We have 4 other fleets have the HA capability rank 4-8. As we all know defending a harbor is much easier than attacking a harbor, less likely they will be taken by lower ranking fleets.
In the best case, they will manage to recruit more active members and merge with some lower ranking fleet. For example, rank 5 6 merged their active members and make them somewhere rank 2.5-3. They might have a chance to take harbor from rank 3 or 4 fleet but stand no chance against other 2. So two of the largest fleets with possibly most active members will have many active members become inactive due to the less competitions.
In the worst case, they all stopped trying and HA dies, you killed all active fleets.
But if more harbors can be occupied, they will change hands from time to time. Since the mega fleets have likely equal powers, they loss harbors due to many conditions, like lack of time defending too many harbors, inactive of members etc.
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