Quote Originally Posted by borl View Post
This is nothing some intelligent design couldn't render a non-issue. Wow is far 'busier' and the combat log is still of use in that.
I could be wrong, but I don't think automatic weapons are especially common in WoW? Being shot at by say, two spider bots, or stacking barrels up on chaos cave mobs would result in a combat log that is exceptionally fast scrolling, to the point where it wouldn't be useful to the player. There's also questions to be asked about which information to display - if you turn on the current logs, you'll see about 6 lines of info per hit (depending on a few factors). Not all of those would be desirable in a live update, but you have to pick which. These issues could all be worked around, but I think it would end up as a misleading/unhelpful abstraction by the time you'd actually got to the point where the logs were actually readable.