Originally posted by Teschmacher:

placing workbenches all around is also a lame workaround, there should be another wayt of extending your territory like by placing flags , poles or something else...

Think this needs to emphasized. Because there is a workaround that works doesn't mean there isn't and issue. Burying workbenches? Is this the game logic that should be emphasized? It's like saying "America's greatest mistake in early 1941 was a failure bury a machine tools around the port of Pearl Harbor."