offline "sandbox"?

I was sitting here fretting at 10:15 tonight, upset that i was only able to get about 45 minutes of work in, and now will have to wait until tomorrow to do more scripting when other things in my first life might come up... and then it hit me.

an offline sandbox. basically, the client (dunno if we could reuse the same client or if it would need to be a different one) would load up a gigantic box as our sim, where our own computer would be the server. we then could create objects and script to our heart's content, and see how things work, so when we sign on the next day, we could just drop the code in and go. what would be übercool would be to have this "sandbox" also act as a 1- or 2-client server, so we could get one or two other players in our sandbox, for testing scripts that require the interaction of multiple avatars.

yeah we all want this basically :-\

for the 800th time... sorry guys.. it wont happen! would be nice!!! but simply wait until the game goes 24\7. If you ask me this si the best game I have ever seen in beta BY FAR!!! And this will make the greatest game BY FAR. They just need time!

oh nash i already know it ain't happening anytime soon, i'm just mentioning that we all want this, but it ain't commin

*SIGH*

that's the whole REASON i want this!

so i can write scripts to test, and hopefully catch bugs. granted the sandbox will still be useful when SL goes public, but IMHO it would be more useful now