"Restrict move to 10m" checkbox when building

This is a fairly simple suggestion, and would really help people like me (or all builders in general heh).

Basically in the edit window would be a checkbox "Restrict move to 10m". With this selected, when you are editing an object's position using the x, y, z boxes (and maybe the arrows too), if your value would move the object more than 10m (or some other sensible value) then it will stop after moving that far.

This prevents typos sending objects hurtling away to the other side of the sim, as it would stick within a reasonable distance so can find it again.

It's a sort of defensive building measure, but as an option so when you WANT to move something real far (e.g to make a skybox), you're not restricted.

I'd prefer if I could either set this maximum distance myself (because I'd choose about 50m), or even better, something like this: I go and set a warning level to 50m, and then if I accidentally move something over 50m in one go (ie by typoing "10" when I meant "100" in the X position box), it gives me a dialog. The dialog would say something like "Moving object ___m, are you sure?" I'd really love that.

I like the above suggestion on being able to set the max distance, but I want to go further with this and add a checkbox that says that the object can't leave the parcel of land that you're building on. That way I don't accidentally rocket off a wall into my neighbors building.

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How about at least limiting it on dragging!

Interestingly, I think, internally, there might be a setting for this. I was cruising SecondLife.exe a week ago and saw stuff about MaxDragDistance. It might be an undocumented feature.

You know, another advantage I could see to this.... if they could set a limit on the maximum distance an object could move (when not attached to or being sat upon by an avatar, since we don;t want to muck up vehicles), things like the griefer attack of a few months ago could be much more easily contained, since the objects couldn't roll all that far.

I don't think there's any way to apply this against griefers, as other legitimate objects need to move distances of greater than 10m. Nor for stopping people using the sit on a block and move it trick to move into your home.

The idea really is just to have some kind of safety system of either a determined or optional limit that you can enable disable to prevent you from accidentally sending something miles away in a single move just because you missed out a digit or whatever. Might also help to prevent all the limit some people get because they are right on one of the sim axis