Talk:Frontier: First Encounters

Requested move

Move It looks like this page used to be named Frontier:First Encounters and I think it should go back there. It is, after all, the full title of the game, and is mentioned in the caption to the image in the infobox (which also says Frontier:First Encounters) -- JediLofty ^{User | Talk} 13:53, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I think there should be a space after the colon, even though there's no colon in the image. The official FAQ doesn't prefix the name with Frontier. –Pomte 01:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. However, the move would be unobstructed (to either title, with or without the space after the colon), and someone who was convinced of its merit could easily make the move. --Stemonitis 08:09, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Reactions by press NPOV

I'm really missing the negative reactions of the press in this article. I recalled that this game had so much bugs at first that it became unplayable. And that later patches accidentally showed that the whole intricate plot was a little bit less intricate then advertised, and that a lot of the promised content simply did not exist. Sure this is listed a bit in the history part of the article, but the later reviews of pcgamer where a lot less nice about the game. Don't know if I still own a hardcopy of that issue. But I doubt it. --Soyweiser (talk) 11:12, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I think your comments and your disclaiming of not having a reliable source to back it up speak for themselves. What you're talking about would be appropriate for an opinion piece, but an encyclopedia entry. The game's lack of commercial success is already mentioned in the article.  Xihr  07:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

This section needs a complete rewrite. It's not acceptable to cherrypick only positive quotes, nor should the section comprise only of quotations. In addition, the url for the PC Gamer review is dead. I'll try and hunt down some reviews to expand the section. If anyone can provide links to magazine reviews, that would be helpful. Marasmusine (talk) 09:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Relativity

Are any relativistic effects modelled? Or are the speeds involved too low for that to be noticable? 2fort5r (talk) 03:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

AFAIR, a bug prevented the player from exceeding as speed of around 200.000km/s (roughly 2/3c). Further accleration would cause the ship to instantly reverse it's direction of movement. Apparently an overflow bug, where the overflow causes the sign to reverse (positive speed turns into negative speed and vice versa). Assuming 32 bit signed arithmetic, this would mean that the game calculates speed in increments of 0.1m/s.

Considering this lack of attention to this "speed issue", it's unlikely that relativistic effects were even considered. --Klaws (talk) 21:51, 20 November 2011 (UTC)