The chatting wouldn't really be a problem if the action was still followed. You definitely should get war2observe, just remember to hit ctrl-alt-del and set both it and war2 to the same core. war2observe runs silently and only changes what you see during the game (you can see people's resources or what they have training when you click on their stuff). even without war2 obsere you should click on units to show their levels, etc, but with war2 observe it's even better