[camlorn]

As usual, dentin's right on everything, including why bother going this overboard on it. There are advantages, but the truth is that the advantages aren't worth the drawbacks. You're going to end up spending more time on this than actually just using your own judgement and reviewing the evidence, at least on a small mud, and such a system can always be added later.


As for imbedding color codes for verification and flash clients, why is your flash client allowing logging? In my experience, everyone generally doesn't use the web play; they use their favorite mud client instead. That said, logging the raw data from the mud is essentially what I'm suggesting, and if you're writing a flash client, you should be able to figure this out.