Talk:Secret Correspondence

How is this page spoiler-free? It's one big spoiler. The only thing left out is the name QuasiSpace, which is the one thing which doesn't help you along in the game. — SvdB 09:35, 18 March 2007 (CET)

meep-eep: It is spoiler-free. The original table with the "green-red endpoints" was ridden with alien race names and so on. This one only presents information that you can easily find out when you reach that certain dimension. And it doesn't say how to get there. 86.35.40.204 14:42, 18 March 2007 (CET)

I'm going to have to agree with SvdB on this one. Something that is spoiler free should only contain information that a player has when starting the game for the first time, ie information found in the manual (and other material like the HyperSpace Starmap) and when looking at the in-game starmap for the first time. This list fails on that criterion. The surprise of going through a q-portal for the first time was not knowing were you'd end up, and this list ruins those surprises, imho - hence, it's again spoiler info. --Fyzixfighter 15:40, 18 March 2007 (CET)

Well then, we should call it a "semi-spoiler". 86.35.40.204 16:00, 18 March 2007 (CET)

I think we should delete this page. I don't see how you can point anyone to this page without spoiling something. Even if you create a list of "semi-spoilers" (I'd call them "hints"), you'd see the topics of the other semi-spoilers/hints, spoiling things the player may not want to know about. — SvdB 16:47, 18 March 2007 (CET)

Some players may want to know this - if they are too lazy to note down on paper the correspondences and they don't want to spoil their game by using a table that includes alien races and special planets. 86.35.40.204 17:03, 18 March 2007 (CET)

Well, then give a solution to the problem; how would you direct those players to this page without providing spoilers to those who don't want to be spoiled about the existence of QuasiSpace, while providing enough information in the link on what the link target is about to those who do want to know? — SvdB 18:03, 18 March 2007 (CET)

Simple: at "Non-spoiler hints" I have added a link to this page under "Read this only if you have a green background". 86.35.40.204 19:43, 18 March 2007 (CET)

Simply putting the "read this only if you have a green background" doesn't remove the spoiler-ish nature since the list is revealing information that a first time player won't have. As I assume this is the result of a thread over on the UQM forum, and if you really still want something like this in, I would suggest adjusting Walkthrough#Portal Destinations, reducing it to a list of just HS and QS coordinates, adding a wikilink to QuasiSpace#QuasiSpace Portals in that section of the walkthrough, and directing people to that section of the walkthrough (and then we can delete this page). But again, any list of this nature spoils the excitement of entering a portal without knowing the final destination, and so should not be linked to from the Non-Spoiler hints page. The creation of this type of page gets into the gray area better handled by a UHS. Aside from creating a Spoiler Hints article and clearly describing what is and isn't revealed, I don't see a reason for keeping this article. I also think making this a subpage of the QuasiSpace or Walkthrough would be more appropriate (rather than editting the Walkthrough list), allowing the information to be kept, but not in an actual article. --Fyzixfighter 23:50, 18 March 2007 (CET)