That would require SDE to care about this game. They don't.

Small fleets can just ask a harbor owning fleet for a capped tier HA for the end game experience.

Who knows maybe they might even give it to them.

Better this than waiting for SDE to notice. 

this has been suggested many time, 2 times myself have asked for it, you wont get it sorry to say, im sure if you ask very nice a HA owner might give you a harbor, seems to be a going fad in NF

They have the bones of all of this already.

They have occupation mode, also fleet league (capped).

Could the 2 of these not be combined somehow and on the harbor map have one harbor inserted for the fleet league winners (the 2 of them play best of 3 or something in occupation mode) and the winning fleet gets their fleet crest over the fleet league harbour.

I think it would be a good thing to have the winning fleet league fleet publically displayed in this manner as it seems completely disjointed from the game and noteriety, unless you go searching through the forums trying to find out what happened and who won. Although the new link on the forum for fleet league tournament might fix this.

O.K this was quickly thought out , but I really don't see any big issue why this could not be in place quickly (apart from them not wanting to, which seems to be the end point)

Until then, be happy with fleet league i suppost. Its a pity that the smaller fleets (who make up the majority of the game) feel there isn't much out there for them. If there was it might stop alot of fleet hopping, as even smaller fleets could participate for their own stopmping ground.

You never know, this could generate a renewed interest in nf that could reap SDE more profit. I think they should use the tools they have already in this manner instead of inventing new game modes that nobody seems interested in.

simple - let go of the ego barriers that are keeping them a 'smaller' fleet

some of the smaller fleets need to work together to stop being 'smaller'

its called a fleet merger to increase numbers ... some should consider it

Yes of course we all know SDE don't care about these suggestions but this is the area to showcase great ideas.

I'm thinking a separate harbor assault from the main, it would allow something for other players to do and it would encourage new fleets (and maybe allow TNF to delete all the fleets that no longer exist from their "new fleet" list.)

And... (maybe a seperate suggestion for big HA fleets) once you have a harbor, maybe it could have smaller harbors within it that allow squads to battle within their fleets.

So many possibilities... who wants to join me and buy this game from them?

its like similar to this union thing the only difference is that smaller fleet owning a harbour can ask big ones to help them and yes you guys can use above bb4 to make things alot of fun.

Of course, the cost is prohibitive to waste any developer's time (and test team, etc., etc.) on some functional change like this, when one or two concurrent HA's bring the servers to a grinding halt.

The engine that runs this game's code is old, and obsolete. ...think of it as a CV1 with biplanes in an era where the game code engine should be rocket powered jets and nuclear powered aircraft carriers.