u/CryptographerCheap88

Have they moved on from Empire? Are they going to do any improvements?

Sorry if this has been raised before but I am fully sucking with economy. I cant seem to earn enough to keep my trade routes and when I spend more securing my trade routes I dont have enough left to build a solid local army to defend my homeland (England in this case).
The other nations seem to have no issue with fielding large fleets and large armies but I have no idea how they afford it. Last point is that when I own all the local supply points in a trading area (eg madagascar etc) it just takes a few pirate raids to weaken my defending navy and a few turns later they take them out entirely.

Not to be more of an idiot than I already am, but how do you rotate clockwise or anticlockwise in game?

Open TTD had such hope but the vehicles just do what they want regardless of their instruction. Is there any way to enforce them to follow their instructions instead of just doing what they want?

Maybe this has come up but is there any way I can get a ingame mouse pointer that is not inverse. Screen moves in the direction of the mouse movement? Also possible to get a smaller cursor than a giant arrow?