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I saw the other Sign problem thread and this wasn't mentioned. Every so often all the signs revert to say SIGN. You can just rechose the type of sign you want and it will go back without having to retype the whole sign name again.

But yeah, I assume everyone has this bug as I see "sign" signs everywhere I go.

This happened to my house. When I tried to rename it to the same name("Ilori's Food, Fashions, and Pharmaceuticals") it told me the name was not valid. So I'm guessing the name filter has gotten stricter and the "sign" houses didn't pass with their previous names. Though I dunno what in the world was wrong with my house name, geez.

I had the same problem with the "Not a valid Name" and did some research. Problem chars are ", ' &". Those are the ones who give you "Not a Valid name". Not easy to name your shop "Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll".

If you want to give your vendor a name like "Pimp" it tells you something like "Use another name less obsene"

Khammi Cazze - Eclipse

I encountered this problem tonight, I had my sign set up and everything was cool went out on my Harv Runs and when I got back my sign had reverted back to "Sign"

I simply had to select another sign and viola my sign was back no problem.

Hope that this will be fixed so i dont have to constantly redo every few hours kinda like Adv 3 and having to reregister my vendors every single day

I tried resetting my name (after learning management I so I could change the sign) the way it was before. Previously it was "Mos Omenos: The Nightlighter" and it had color. I can't change it back. Color doesn't work at all and the best name I could get the thing to take was "Nightlighter"

This has got to be the silliest thing I've ever seen. Why take away one of the few ways a Merchant can make his shop noticeable? I hope to hell this is a bug. Give us our color back and ease up on the name filter fer crying out loud.

All the people with "sign" as the name of there house/store, is because of a new feature. You can now sellect new sign styles if you have merchant management skills (one for each level). Everyone with the "sign' isue has to sellect a sign style. You can leave your name unchanged. If you change your name, you can no longer use color coding. Wish I knew this. I changed my name and lost me color.

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Wish I knew this. I changed my name and lost me color.

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Yup. Me too. I'm so glad this change was documented in the patch notes. If I had known what was going to happen, I wouldn't have touched anything.

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DarthOpus wrote:

I'm so glad this change was documented in the patch notes.

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I just love these undocumented features.

Ah yes, lovely. This happened to me after the server reset. Yert another thing for Merchants to have to reset every day.

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GenChaos wrote:
Ah yes, lovely. This happened to me after the server reset. Yert another thing for Merchants to have to reset every day.

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This was due to the patch not the server reset. Has anyone found that this needs to be done daily? I have not been on yet today.

Yes I had to do it twice today - after each reset (Valcyn had to be rebooted again today around1pm CST)

Another time sink for us to run around and fix our 'SIgn' signs every reset, along with advertising and ad barking....

The Devs hate Merchants....

Yah yah. This is an additional annoyance about a neat little feature I was happy to see. I loved being able to color the text on my signs. And I really like the new sign posts. But I am not liking that I have to reset it just like ad barking and map registration. And just like Ad barking, it's not just once a day. I've had to reset my sign 4 times today so far. Every time I log in, I see it says just "Sigh" again. /sigh.

On another note - I didn't change the text of my signs at all after the patch, so all my still have colored text. Even after I reset sign choice. Did they take color text out as a feature or is just patch broken for now?

My shop seemed to keep its name just fine, but I saw lots of 'signs' for sure.