I think many people would like to disable their country flag for several reasons.

Solutions I suggest:

option for displaying country code
custom country code(which could be too much)
custom country flag, because why not? this is not real life

Grohenbird Moderated Message:

I have edited your thread to make it much easier to read and to streamline your idea so as not to confuse what you're asking for. You don't have to thank me. -Grohenbird

The problem is, whenever I use a proxy or something that kinda hides my location it just works at home. So instead of reconnecting with my forum profile in my "hidden" area after I was online at a different location why shouldn't we make this easier ?

I guess there are many people that does not want their country location to be displayed and like me I bet they also do not want to use external solutions to solve something thats internal

Wait wait, are you trying to say that a function like changing a flag would stop people using VPNs to hide their identity from hiding their identity with a VPN? Wow, that's a really strange idea. It's totally not the same thing in function.

Seriously though, this doesn't do any harm. So what if people want to remain anonymous on the internet? Is that not what the internet is for?

VPN does the same thing and is just as easy. There's no reason not to.

I don't see much use for users in trying to hide or change their flags on purpose. However, we received complaints in the past that flag system does not work as intended, and sometimes changes players' flags to nearby counties. This is a bigger issue, which could be fixed by an option to disable or reset player's flag.

If someone could find earlier suggestion(s) on this topic that'd be great.

Problems of flags:
people might not like their country or just the design of their flag.
near country borders they might receive a wrong flag which may let em feel embarrassed.

I experienced much people just not want to be in the same room with me when they noticed my german flag(especially when during a awkward political debate).
German culture nowadays is strange and much europeans have prejudice(which I can understand).

Damn, recently the turkish president had a conflict with a famous german person. When I entered private rooms with a turkish op they were like cyberbullying me(I ain't saying no names or details). And I am not even german!! It was just the flag !!!

Against multiclienting there will still be protection, because the same IP of 2 accounts is marked with a (MC) previous the players name. -We just talk about flag appearance and not the exact location in the database.

All I want is either showing a flag that fits to my real origin, or just disable it.
Not our future but our present is getting globalized, I'm tired of people that judge me because they think I represent germany or whatever.

I see how it may help to disable or reset country flag for some of the reasons stated above and in previous threads.

I can also see how changing to a specific flag or country code may be abused.

Therefore, disabling flags is worth considering, and will personally look into it; changing thread status to Elevated. However, I don't think the feature of setting a specific country flag will be implemented any time soon.

Suggestion is already elevated, I've merged your thread with the existing one.

There is no such feature from the game by itself.
As you said, there are ways to make it able, but why should we use VPN when its more comfortable to change the country code ingame ? Even if its just a checkbox which says "show country flag" or "hide country flag".

Well Hampa is working on a new toribash project anyways, so I am pretty sure its going to be implemented someday