as i wrote in the other thread, we can't see a way of having more than one flag per nation. so, at the minute, you can only a british flag if you're british, a pirate flag if you're a pirate, etc.. there's no way of having, for example, two british people with two different flags - they would have to have the same flag.
however, i am going to add the possibility of raising <b>neutral</b> colours. by default this will just be a plain white flag. you can change this to whatever you want, by editing the texture files. only the player character can be neutral, so you don't need to worry about coming across random ships that have your custom flag <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="^_^" border="0" alt="happy.gif" />