[Biggio509]

Getting empty flags on players screen. I remember this was an old problem but I don't remember how it was fixed. The game is looking for countries that don't exist and assigning some percentage to them even if there are not in the DB.

The problem was the game was assigning players to some of these countries that don't exist anymore IIRC.

The world file header.
"OOTP loads this file whenever the user creates a new game. You can edit this file as long as you watch the syntax. Please read the online manual section about customizing the world XML file.
NATION tokens:
use_hardcoded_ml_player_origins - either 1 (=yes) or 0 (=no). If missing, the value will be set to 0. By default it's 1 for the USA nation record in the XML file. Just disable it (set it to 0) or delete it and OOTP will not use the hard coded player distribution for that nation anymore.
this_is_modern_usa - either 1 (=yes) or 0 (=no). If missing, the value will be set to 0. By default it's 1 for the USA nation record in the XML file. There should always be at least one nation with this flag enabled because OOTP needs it as the nation for pre-defined leagues, like NL or AL.

When OOTP creates fictional players for modern US major leagues, it will need to find the following nations by name: Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Japan, Panama, Australia, South Korea, Germany, Aruba, England, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Taiwan. So you should not change the names for these nations if you want to simulate realistic major leagues!"

I think it was something to do with this country list. I remember this happened with older versions and was fixed but I don't remember how. It looks like about equal number of empty flags to nations it looks for on the list but not in the DB. I have been trying to set up a "fictional" game, eg. the real 1871 setup with 9 teams 1 league import real rookies.