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[Jason]

I appear to be finding my sea legs here is my most recent save.

 

[Jason]

Fyi After I secured a LOM the flags flown on my ship seemed to be fine.

 

[Grey Roger]

Odd. Even without a LoM, you should be able to fly nation flags. In fact, in "Tales of a Sea Hawk" when you have to go to St. Pierre to deal with the ammunition ship, you have to fly a French flag if you want to go to the port, and it's a good idea even if you want to go to the beach because there may be French ships there as well.

 

[Grey Roger]

Time for a lesson in flag identification!

This is your personal flag:

It is a white cross on a blue background. It is the St. Andrews cross and it is the flag of Scotland.

This is not your personal flag:

It is a white cross on a blue background. It is the Burgundy cross and it is the merchant flag of Spain. This one has little branches on the arms of the cross which the St. Andrews cross does not have.

The reason your flag does not look like the one in the interface screen is that the interface flag is the naval flag. You'll see it if you load that savegame and point your spyglass at the nearby fort - which, incidentally, would be shooting at you if you were flying your personal flag because Spain does not like you! The reason for the different flags is that you're playing in 1756, the War of the Spanish Succession finished a long time ago, the Habsburg line is dead and the Bourbon kings now rule Spain. The naval flag is the Bourbon one. But merchant ships still use the old flag dating back to Habsburg times.

If you buy a Spanish LoM then you get the naval flag.

Or you could fly a French flag safely in a Spanish port because Spain is friendly to France - at least, it is now, international relations can change randomly in FreePlay. The French merchant flag is a completely different white cross on blue:

Again it will look different to the French flag in the interface because that's the French naval flag.