Thiefing script?

I sorta want to make stealing available in a sim and I want to try the idea on a few items. Basically what I think is that the script runs on touch, it gives a copy of the item to the thief and the original gets deleted. Figure this would be easy to do? Would it be interesting to people in a sim to have stealable items?

Look up llDie and llGiveInventory. Handing out the replacement objects will have to be done by a central server because of limitations in self-rep.

You would also need to make sure the person who touched the item is close.. say with in 1 or 2 meters.. most people can't steal something physical when they are 20 meters away.

You'd need to have a system where the person has a dexterity stat - fumbled finger people would fail most of the time, and get caught.

Is there an so called "area of effect" code where the avatar has to be in a certain range to activate the script?

Look up llGetPos() and llDetectedPos() and llVecDist().

Set object in the edit box to 'give original' then the thief takes the object, but then of course anyone can also take it, whoever gets there first, so not a good solution I guess, but just thrown into the mix for reference.

Right, because we can't have people stealing from thieves.

I assumed this was RPing and I guess they wouldn't want non RP thieves stealing it first, LOL

Or RP non-thieves, for that matter.

Well, would it be possible to program it so people in a certain group (a thief group) could steal it, but no one else can.

llSameGroup()