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Usage

To replicate the appearance of in-game dialogue. Please make dialogues on their own pages, like so: Kora Dialogue/Welcome to Haven!, with <noinclude>[[Category:Dialogues]]</noinclude> right after the last }} .

Then link to them as needed like so: {{:Kora Dialogue/Welcome to Haven!}} - this is template friendly. Have not encountered problems yet.

It is optional to hide this dialogue with Template:Dialogue/Showhide.

This way, users can:

• Find dialogues in bulk quickly via Category:Dialogues
• Update a dialogue that appears in more than one spot in the game/wiki right away and consistently.

Code

{{Dialogue
|location  =
|notes     =
|character = 
|cd 1 = 
|pd 1 = 
|cd 2 = 
|pd 2 = 
|cd 3 = 
|pd 3 = 
|cd 4 = 
|pd 4 = 
|cd 5 = 
|pd 5 = 
|cd 6 = 
|pd 6 =  
|cd 7 = 
|pd 7 =
|cd 8  = 
|pd 8  =
|cd 9  = 
|pd 9  =
|cd 10 = 
|pd 10 =
}}

Parameters

Required

|character

the name of the character - do not use brackets etc. Just the name.

|cd 1

character dialogue.

|pd 1

player response to the character dialogue.

Optional

|location

The location of the dialogue. Please only use if the page the subtemplate is used on is not a Dialogue Mission.

|notes

Any notes about the dialogue. This is prudent to do when dialogues are mostly repeats, but with a few differences, as with Feron in the location vs. the mission.

|cd 2+

Additional dialogue from character

"cd" = character dialogue

Only use if needed, never if not needed

|pd 2+

Additional responses from player

"pd" = character dialogue

Only use if needed, never if not needed

|character 2+

If there is more than one character (more than the character and the player) in the conversation, line up the right number (2, 3, 4 etc.) with the right box in the vertical order and type their name here. This defaults to the character entry, because many dialogues are between the player and a single NPC.

Examples

See what links here for examples of this template in action.

Notes

Forum Discussion about this template.

There is probably a more elegant way to code this template regarding the what I call "chunky" number of entries (something instead of cd 1, 2, 3...20), I just don't know quite how to work that in with the flexibility we need. One option is using individual entries per character-player interaction within a space, for example, like the accessory lists. They would just use a different container, not a class=sortable. But that also has downsides, and this template simply does it for you. Most conversations are short with a single NPC. With an entry that doesn't use PAGENAME or built in default switches, the NPC's name would need to be entered each time as far as I know - not a huge problem with copypaste, but annoying to do for different conversations with different NPCs, even with easy mass text replace options. This template takes care of that with a single entry, and has flexibility if there's more than one NPC in the dialogue.

Users so far seem to like the ease of entry of the format. It's also very consistent and easy to adjust spacing in the visual conversation for all dialogues.