A question about one of the approved mods.

[Abitcat 25]

In the wiki (http://wiki.nerd.nu/wiki/Client_mods), it says that "Watson" is an approved mod. It displays LogBlock info. Wouldn't this be useless to average players and only useful for staff?

[Silversunset01 608]

I dont see any benefit to non-staff for this particular mod. 

[Mumberthrax 432]

It does allow for keyword highlighting if I recall correctly. I used to use it to have my username appear in a bright color so I would see it if someone mentioned me in the sea of text on PvE that is easy to tune out sometimes.

[Trooprm32 509]

3 hours ago, Mumberthrax said:

It does allow for keyword highlighting if I recall correctly. I used to use it to have my username appear in a bright color so I would see it if someone mentioned me in the sea of text on PvE that is easy to tune out sometimes.

I don't believe word highlighting is included in any of the latest 3rd party versions.

[buzzie71 493]

The impression I got is that Watson was allowed/useful for non-staff primarily for its highlighting - in one of my old spleef videos I explicitly had the word "ready" highlighted from when I was reffing a game.  I don't know if the auto-query-region-info-on-identification-with-wood-sword also worked for non-staff (it did for me when I was staff).  

That being said, I haven't used Watson since the days when only third party versions were available, so I'm not too sure what the state of the mod is now.