This idea is following the 1.67 patch which isn't due yet. See General.

Have available signpost objects which have a scripted power which places them on the floor as an object. Using setname function would then allow the signposts to have a "notice" or name on them.

For instance.

Gate is under attack, the watch can deploy signs by the stairs warning people of the situation, as an example.

Or we can write "tigers suck" and stick them at the top of the stairs ;)

This would allow small dynamic noticies to be put up by certain people, and taken down via a dialogue event when not needed.

I will be looking into this soon.

Nice.

What if the signs could be persistent through resets? That might be handy.

If the first request goes through, having it persist through a reset would likely be very simple, as it would only require simple coupling to the database. Good luck Arkov.

It wouldn't exactly be that simple -- it would have to behave properly when areas get changed or redesigned, for example.

For the SetName() scripting command a new "DisplayName" field will be written out on supported game objects. As Georg surmised if this field exists and is not "" then it will be used in game, otherwise the original name will used. So yes if you use SetName() on an object the new name will remain in effect across a Save/Load (such as taking a renamed item into another module).

While nice, that quote only reiterates the fact mentioned before that it would be fairly easy to read and write the signs themselves from the database. The complications occur when the area that the signs are in has changed in the meantime, and there are issues positioning them (or finding the area at all.)

Why bother with persistant ones when if only certain people could set them up, then if the server goes down, they could just either go and put them back up again, or due to the server crash, said situation which is signposted is no longer applicable.