I agree, this problem needs to be a high priority. An RPG style atmosphere dosent really work when your wasting time trying to word something to an NPC. I would prefer an \'old school\' system like what was used in the old ultima games etc wheras you could just qoute keywords from the conversation and the NPC would understand. I think if the developers do want to stick with this \'natural speaking\' style it will require a lot of work to give each NPC a broad enough vocabulary to be useful to anyone.