Love the 1st and 2nd points...

Maybe divide the tiles into a value\percentage of 100mill.
The main row being the most valuable, therein making it the best route to earn your money
back and the outer tiles less valuable.

This would further reduce the point of unnecessary distraction rooms to purely strategic
reasons.

If the HA is won, then the full amount should be returned as you described.
If the HA is lost on\at the HA tile i believe that the looser shouldn't get their 100%
return, only what they managed to claw back from attacking tiles.
This would bring a 3rd dimension to HA...

Winning HA.
Reaching the HA tile.
Clawing back your deposit.

*EDIT*

There is a 4th dimension, waste the defenders time with FF rushes. {8D

Recommended.

Recc'ed. No reason not to anyway.

Vampire never posts anything right on these forums, so him not supporting this is good for me.

Although I am not in a fleet I still find that the idea makes sense. VampyreHntrD where
are you deriving this right to harbor assault from?

vamp, i hope you're glad that mechy dont view these forums.

as far as i know, the higher up's in TF fleet would actually support the idea.

it will never pass. HA is a game mode like any other of the games GB OP con or blitz.
the nly diffreance is no exp i gained. Any fleet has the right to attack any harbor. so
what if you hold them to the first tile. and waist your time.

welcome to having something everyone or fleet wants a harbor. and that lj its a fact
of life. noob fleet or not. and so you know maybe you need to get out more often
the world is for the most part like that

I like it. I just came up with this idea to help prevent inflation: see the "economics" thread.

recced.

Because at least if a fleet wastes two hours, they get something out of it.

i'm guessing 1st SSF really annoyed you guys with that last one.

and what makes you think this fee will stop noob fleets? theres nothing stopping
ubarnoobflottt~! from getting that kind of money somewhere, somehow.