Not a Bug Flag and relations error

[ANSEL]

Some thing relay weird is going on, in this savegame, with flag and relations.
Just spotted it, may by I could explain it better later on.

 

[ANSEL]

Forget about it! It was my head there was weird.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

So... not actually a bug then?

 

[ANSEL]

So... not actually a bug then?

Not in the game, but maybe in me!

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Alright then...

 

[ANSEL]

But either they'll ignore it or they REALLY won't like it (can't remember which of the two it is;

Yesterday by accident, I hit a ship from my own nation. Consequence: Drop down from 305 points to -61 points.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Yesterday by accident, I hit a ship from my own nation. Consequence: Drop down from 305 points to -61 points.

That was manually aimed though, right?

 

[ANSEL]

That was manually aimed though, right?

In a way, I misinterpreted some Portuguese ships to be Spanish ( the flags look very similar in that period,
and the spyglass says the were sailing in Spanish ships. BTW: I dont thing there was flags on the ships using
the spyglass.) So I manually fires on them and suddenly all the English ships fires on me.
This was the reason for the wrong bug report I posted last night.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

So it was indeed a manual fire. That is indeed one of the main ways to turn friendly nations hostile.

Sometimes the Different Flags mod doesn't work quite right, so flags may not be there or in the wrong place.
I have no idea how often that happens, but I do know I'm not even going to try to fix it. That mod is a royal pain.
To be certain, it is probably safer to use the "nation" marker in the bottom of the spyglass screen or Sail-To menu instead.