Back when I played NavyField (a naval game where you had to manually control the angles of your cannons) you would have 4 harbours on the map. you would hold ladder competitions clan vs clan and when you felt strong enough you could declare an attack on an harbour. When you did that you would have to fight a sequal of battles against the owner to get access to the harbour and then you would get a final grand battle to control the harbour itself.

The owner of the harbour would get some ingame benefits like free repairs of ship of a certain nation and the option to get premium ships for a limited amount of times.

In my opinion I think Harbour Battles is WGs attempt to allow clans to fight over harbours to get gold or other benefits on top of standard open sea battles.

Mostly the second, and I feel like you’re more angry that they stole your work than anything else.

Rather than just flaming it, why don’t you point out the fallacies?

Anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side. You are better than that.