I didn't encounter this bug until the last patch so I swear it was introduced then. It seems that trade routes are now being mistakenly identified as over land instead of over sea. I saw the bug starting a new GB campaign and reproduced it starting an Ottoman one. If you start a nation that doesn't have all its sea ports used up, you can create a ton of new ones since they'll be mistakenly identified as a land trade route instead of a sea one.
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