[se5a]

yes mark shepards one is the one I was refering to.
maybe this game is just screwed and we should start again?
I created my empire without the mark shepards flags, I downloaded them when I got the same error you are getting geo, however I installed them into the empires folder as the readme dictated.
I copied the ukratal folder into the flags folder to get the game to load properly, and since it's randomly changing which empire flag it want's I was assuming that it still couldn't find the flag and was looking for annother in the wrong place...