Dumb question about rezz rights on a parcel.
So let's say I have a parcel where Fred rezzed up a potato farm. I'd like the potato farm to stay where it is- Fred doesn't log in much anymore. (cont'd in comment)
So let's say I have a parcel where Fred rezzed up a potato farm. I'd like the potato farm to stay where it is- Fred doesn't log in much anymore. (cont'd in comment)
So if I change parcel rezz rights from 'anyone can rezz' to the group 'People Nath Knows Who Aren't Fred'- would Fred's potato farm be auto-returned? I THINK it wouldn't, but I wanna make sure before I do it.
That depends on a couple of things: Is Fred's potato farm on the land group? And, is autoreturn set to other than 0?
Ohhhhh. so if Fred gave rights on the potato farm to that group, it'd stay out. and I'm not sure about autoreturn setting.
Any item set to the group that the land is set to will stay once autoreturn is turned on.
I think that if autoreturn is set to 0, when you turn build to group only, whatever was before, stays. Let me try that with an alt.
OK, so I see one potential solution- limit build to the group 'Group Nath and Fred Both Belong To'.
If that works for the two of you, yes, but as I'm checking, it seems that having autoreturn set to 0 is enough if he rezzed things before you turn group only build on.
I will convey this, then- thank you for doing the legwork, AurynBeorn!!
Sure! I was checking one more thing, to give the complete report of what I observed 
You have to remember not to change that number.
(I'm a sublessor on a parcel that got spammed to death with rezzed nonsense- there's an item in there that's part of why my landlord/master-tenant pays the tier, so he doesn't wanna accidentally knock it off.)
Yikes
Ok, this was my experiment to see if what I remembered was correct:
Parcel with build open to everybody, autoreturn set to 0. My alt builds something, changes the group of the object to "none" instead of the land group.
Now I change build to group only, keeping autoreturn to 0. My alt's object stays rezzed.
I wait. Then I change autoreturn to 1. After the minute, my alt's object is returned.
Reason: Autoreturn other than 0, the object was not owned by me, the parcel owner, and it was not set the group.
I keep autoreturn set to 1, open build again. My alt rezzes an object under the land group.
Then I set build to group only, the object stays. I wait a bit.
Then my alt changes the group of the object from the land group, to none. The object is returned.
So I hope this clarifies what may happen depending on your settings
Thank you! I'll try to remember to comment here if I come up with more questions. 
Sure!
OK, so the object in question is set to the group 'Fred and the Landlord belong to this group and nobody else does'. If rez is set to 'fred and nath and the llord belong' w/ autoreturn set 0, does it stay?
(I haven't seen Fred log in in 3 years, so I'm guessing Fred ain't exactly gonna turn up to shuffle the group designation over)
It should stay, yes. (Now I'm afraid because it's not my objects that I can mess up with =) )
Haha- i could come by and rezz something if that'd be helpful as a test environment?
Once you turn build to group only, the settings will affect to all objects on the parcel anyway.
But the theory is, if autoreturn is set to 0, the object should stay because it was rezzed before you turned it to group only.
I've checked with my alt, but obviously her box isn't important. The object you say, is.
OK, so said group would have to become 'Landlord and Fred and everybody else LL wants rezzing', rather than using 'LL and Fred and everybody are already in this group'
(LL = landlord, in this context)
The group is whichever you want. The theory is that autoreturn set to 0 will keep the object on the parcel even if you set build to group only.
I wish managing parcels wasn't so confusing - and limited in some ways.
nodnod Me too, definitely. Hell, I wouldn't mind having the ability to manage FOR my landlord: he's pretty benign but also pretty uncertain about trying things.