However, it IS awesome to have more megaprims in circulation! I can't wait, though, for the full and proper solution! Thanks for this step along the way!

Make these changes and i'll give it a vote.

Also, while I can make the upper limit smaller, keep in mind that this is an artificial limit. Right now the sim code allows truly enormous prims to be created, and regardless of what limits this patch sets, unless the sim validation rules change, it will still be possible for people to create larger prims using other clients.

IRT Anne's comment that sizes should be restricted to 100M, hun, despite it being an artifical limit 128M is a more logical size, 1/4 region.

Also testclient and people with their hands on this patch and the ability to recompile make it a useless suggestion, security through obscurity is no solution.

if I could add my feature request to official client-created megas, it would be to lift the hollow restrictions. 95% is unusable on very large prims, as, in the case of my 240m outer dimensions, that leaves a 12m thick wall.

1. max prim scale is reduced to 100.0m
2. min prim scale is increased to 0.01m to reflect the fact that microprims cannot be created
3. because resizing megaprims causes them to snap back to 10.0m, the "scale" spinners on the object floater, and the scale manipulators are disabled when a megaprim or a linkset containing a megaprim is selected, to prevent breaking megaprims

http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/

http://ablewhitman.org/blog/

My viewer has my UI changes as well, which makes creating prims easier, but the tradeoff is that you don't get to take advantage of all of Nick's excellent work.

To create a region sized prim floor with 100M limited prims you need 4x 100x100, 4x 100x56 and 1x 56x56 rather than 4x 128x128.

Make the upper prim limit 128M and I will revote.

" [11:05] Gaius Goodliffe: Are you guys aware that the constraints that used to stop people from making new megaprims are gone?
[...]
[11:06] Andrew Linden: Yes Gaius, I heard about that. Kelly Linden fixed it – should go out in the next server update.
[11:06] Gaius Goodliffe: Ah okay.
[11:07] Phli Foxchase: so, it's an exploit ?
[11:07] Andrew Linden: Yes, that 'feature" was really a bug and was unintended"
(see: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Andrew_Linden/Office_Hours/2008_05_10)

Here I was hoping the unofficial access to megaprims was some cleverness on LL's part... but my dreams were dashed.
I wish they would increase the size clamp to something more workable in the short term.

edited for late night garble

"To add my own 2 cents, I think griefing happens with or without big prims. But maybe there should be something in place that prevents innocent mistakes from impacting other people. It happened to me once that I clumsily rezzed a megaprim on a parcel that was too small for it, and it totally swallowed the neighbour's house. Then some network error prevented me from deleting it immediately, I could only clear it on the next day. Lucky there was nobody to complain, but if there had been a bunch of people it would have meant trouble. I can't imagine it being very difficult to implement on the server side that rezzing fails if a prim exceeds the parcel limits, except if both parcels belong to the same owner. Private island owners should be allowed to override it even if they subdivided their land."