personally i think the wield showing is a great asset for enchanters and tinkers. it makes sure that a weapon is crafted properly.

i also like the xp showing, it helps move time along knowing that your constant cycles are providing some sort of experience, otherwise if this wasnt implemented I would be checking how much experience im getting after each spell/round/cycle anyway so this saves a lot of work and therefore makes it more fun (because you shouldnt feel like you are at work when mudding).

if people dont like being able to see the messages or prefer it like the olden days then there should be options to turn it off completely. i think that option should be left to per user preference and not a mud wide change.

really the reason i wanted the message to be able to be changed is that items in rooms were changed from bold magenta to plain white the spam i get from combat is indistinguishable. I would like to see that allowed to change color too. I know of a setting currently in the game that allows you to change object colors, but it also changes static colored objects (ie A crystal clear fountain(bold cyan), gate rune(bold blue), exploding rune(bold red), etc) so if i changed itemcolors to magenta all of those would change from their static colors to magenta.