Update: I'm wrong :-D

Coalesced Objects

It used to be, eons ago, that when you took multiple selected prims it would go into inventory with a single cube icon like any simple or linked prim (which was tough as there was no differentiation and we'd sometimes mean to rez, say, a chair and accidentally rez a furnished house); when someone returned your objects on purpose or by accident the things went into inventory one by one, which was tough as there was no option to replace the objects in spatial relationship for unlinked builds, and linksets were smaller then.

Then coalesced objects came in. Objects taken as an unlinked group had a "lots of boxes" icon, and if objects were returned they not only had that icon to tell you it was a grouping, but the group retained its spatoial relationships and could easily be re-rezzed and put into position. Unless the grouping contained Linden trees, which could make rezzing difficult (no can do in a sandbox, for example).

The biggest bad point for coalesced groupings, however, is one that causes immense trouble. The object limit on coalesced groupings is something like 256, so when a hasty landowner hits the "Return All Objects" button and the returned objects total more than the limit, everythings goes *POOF* and is seen no more. It would be nice if "Return All Objects" just didn't work at all over the object limit. Landowners wanting to return things could select some and return them until the total was below the limit, then hit the button.

It seems nothing causes unalloyed joy; I'd hate to lose coalesced objects but they do cause problems at times. I wonder what changes the new Havok brings to linksets and to coalesced object limits, though. /me sidles over to Aditi to poke around.