wrote:

FYI I ran into this only yesterday. My older VSP stats shows (useless) flags, so I dove into this.
If you run a recent version (after spring 2021) you can see the maintainer has disabled this feature.This was in March 2021:

https://github.com/evilru/quake3-vsp-stats/commit/0fb3b630f333994f88d79db59891839bdf9f89e5

The commit message was:

Disable country flags

quake3 log files don't contain ip addresses

This makes sense indeed. I was always looking at question marked flags anyway...

I'm using that version. If you track the player by playerName, the country does
get picked up in the logs:0:00 Warmup: 0:00 ClientConnect: 1 \ip\localhost\
guid\\tld\\country\Unknown Location 0:00 ClientUserinfoChanged: 1
n\Bitterman\t\0\ts\0\model\bitterman\hmodel\bitterman\c\\c1\4\c2\5\hc
\300\w\0\l\0\skill\2\tt\0\tl\0 0:00 ClientBegin: 1 0:00 ClientConnect: 2
\ip\localhost\guid\\tld\\country\Unknown Location 0:00 ClientUserinfoChanged: 2

n\^1A^2n^3a^4r^5k^6i\t\0\ts\0\model\anarki\hmodel\anarki\c\\c1\4\c2\5\hc\
300\w\0\l\0\skill\2\tt\0\tl\0 0:00 ClientBegin: 2 0:00 ClientConnect: 3
\ip\73.150.221.251\guid\9D2F06ED7FE855F8D971FD8B525AC305\tld\
US\country\United States 0:00 ClientUserinfoChanged: 3
n\Fragenstein\t\0\ts\0\model\sarge/krusade\hmodel\sarge/krusade\c\5???
5\c1\4\c2\5\hc\300\w\0\l\0\tt\0\tl\0

Only problem is that the code in vsp-q3a.php needs to be updated again
(throwing errors about /e being deprecated). I messed with it for hours,
but I'm not a coder, so I couldn't fix the error.