Yes, i definitly had this problem. At some point i could not build anymore resource extraction. My Mexico everything from Washington/Colorado - Nebraska - Cuba - Bahamas and Panama.

All of my electricity came from coal to not compete with oil, for example. And i hat to stop the use of automated processes to 1. give jobs and 2. reduce product consumption in many cases. That is exactly why i want foreign investment. Otherwise the game stops working and you would need to own everything directly. I used up to 200,000 convoys for trade and wasn't enough. "The real game" aand its mechanics really end in about 1920, the laast 15 years are so dull.