Dialogue wheel PLUS TEXT

Here's what I remember from discussions with devs (mostly David Gaider, then lead writer for DA) on the old official BSN.

Some of the writing is more like a screenplay than the basic text dialogue of yore, and includes things like tone and gestures, facial expressions, nodding, etc.  It's difficult to reduce that to pure text for display.

Also, some of the lines are too long to display, and sometimes selecting a single line results in ongoing back-and-forth conversation.  Again, because cinematic screenplay.

In the focus group testing they've tried, it turns out that people didn't like reading a line and then hearing that line repeated word for word by a VA.  It felt redundant to the focus testers, and that's sort of what gave rise to the paraphrases.  I don't know whether they've changed the rules, but I know that at one point, paraphrases could not include any of the key words that were in the actual dialogue line.

Some of us have been wanting the paraphrase/dialogue wheel system to go away for as long as it's existed.