This is exactly what happens. Playing wack-a-mole with the hording real estate brokers who are allergic to fighting each other is about as much fun as watching paint dry. The only amusement I get is the atta-boys they give each other after hord-milking pixelized outhouses. They cannot really do this on the smaller maps, the hordes have to fight each other for bases. On the huge maps there's often more fields than players affording infinite opportunity for non-fighting milk-hording.
Same statement, different year. The fact remains that HiTech has never changed anything severely enough to rid this problem from the game. It is still a prevalent tactic. Extrapulate from that what you will, keeping in mind how long this game has existed. On
our end of his game, the fact remains that complaints have failed to solve this issue year after year.