Thanks for your thoughts, guys.
There aren't any flags hidden in the three-colored dialogue choices and I don't really plan on it. The dialogue choices were designed for a few reasons, as I've mentioned before. The main reason is that I want you to put yourself in the MC's shoes. Often times in VNs, we're forced to say things in regards to relationships that we would never say. Maybe you want to flirt with a girl. Maybe you don't. I'll leave that up to you.
The reason the stats appear only at the end of the episode is to tell you where you're leaning. It's not supposed to be a warning or influence you in a different direction. So, you should be thinking "Oh, I've been flirting with Kate a lot." You shouldn't be thinking "Oh, I've been flirting with Kate a lot, I'd better her start telling her more jokes." It's a scoreboard more than anything else.
There will be differences in how the girls look at you depending on how you lean later on in the game, but you'll never be gated or miss 'content' for being too flirty or too funny. For one, I don't want to penalize someone for picking the choice they want. And two, it just doesn't make sense since the dialogues won't completely define your relationship and the story.
So, the dialogue choices matter for that variance. But it won't have a major impact compared to bigger decisions. I put a bunch of differences in the dialogue so that people could spend more time reading it and less time looking at a PDF in another window, trying to make the right choices. This is just for the dialogue system with three-colored choices. More consequential decisions should be more obvious, like deciding whether or not to have sex with someone.
Don't look at dialogue between trying to decide between right and wrong choices. Look at it as deciding what the best choice is.
Feel free to leave more questions, suggestions, or complaints. I'm around.
I won't drag things on for the sake of dragging things on. I want to have a lot of fun with the story, and that involves a lot of things happening. I'm looking at everything in the big picture sense (saving Billy's, graduating, relationships with the girls) and the small picture, too (all of the little things that add up to the big picture). It may feel like it might be dragging on for some with everything I have planned, but it's not intentional.
For what I have planned and want to do, we're still early in the story. New characters will be introduced in Episode 4.