When I registered PoG and started using plugins, I noticed that PoG had some unwritten rules of dialog that most plugin developers don't follow (not that this is bad, it's just different. I'm not expecting you to update your plugins or say that I'm picking on your plugins). Basically, I've reached the following conclusions for dialog in PoG:

All actions are in parenthesis- ex. Unfortunately... (Tell the whole story)
Player Dialog is always a choice at the bottom, even if there is only one thing to say
Throw in a few (done) actions as the player's response when you don't need them
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Please throw in others if you've noticed any unwritten rules.

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Clones are people two.
If UPS and Fed-Ex merged, would they be Fed-Up?
A man who's out to save Gidolan Keep, flies an Auroran ship, and hacks into computers to keep the bricks from falling past the line of destiny? Yep, that's me!

Have the dialog written by someone for whom English is a second, apparently not entirely fluent, language, and ignore any typos that might happen to occur as a result. (Not that I'm bitter. )

Give the player multiple answer options that indicate the same personality type (such as arrogant jerk) and no options that represent a different personality (such as someone who might actually be nice to that crazy priest in Fantrima)

Never have NPCs remember the fact that they've talked to the player before, unless said conversation was a major plot point. (Rubber Ducky missed this one in Damsels. )

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'You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines...or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are. Isn't that better?'
-- T. Pratchett

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Originally posted by Glenn:
Have the dialog written by someone for whom English is a second, apparently not entirely fluent, language,

Well, PoG text isn't as bad as the game with Catz in it (can't remember the name). The translators ended up making sentences such as, "All your base are belong to us!"

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Clones are people two.
If UPS and Fed-Ex merged, would they be Fed-Up?
A man who's out to save Gidolan Keep, flies an Auroran ship, and hacks into computers to keep the bricks from falling past the line of destiny? Yep, that's me!

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Originally posted by Thunderforge:
**Well, PoG text isn't as bad as the game with Catz in it (can't remember the name).
**

That'd be CATS, from Zero Wing.

(url="http://"http://www.scene.org/redhound/AYB.swf")For great justice.(/url)

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Originally posted by -esw-dragoon_77:
**That'd be CATS, from Zero Wing.

For great justice.

**

Hmm, I don't seem to recall all the stuff after you see the the man praying. But it was interesting nonetheless.

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Clones are people two.
If UPS and Fed-Ex merged, would they be Fed-Up?
A man who's out to save Gidolan Keep, flies an Auroran ship, and hacks into computers to keep the bricks from falling past the line of destiny? Yep, that's me!

There is no praying man in the music video. Unless you're talking about (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/dragoon/pics/captain.jpg")this guy(/url). He's not praying, he's either forming a plan of action or nervous.

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Originally posted by -esw-dragoon_77:
**There is no praying man in the music video. Unless you're talking about this guy. He's not praying, he's either forming a plan of action or nervous.

**

I did mean him. I thought that he was praying.

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Clones are people two.
If UPS and Fed-Ex merged, would they be Fed-Up?
A man who's out to save Gidolan Keep, flies an Auroran ship, and hacks into computers to keep the bricks from falling past the line of destiny? Yep, that's me!