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Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.18 06:28:00 - [1] Edited by: Jimer Lins on 18/05/2007 06:31:39 Edited by: Jimer Lins on 18/05/2007 06:30:37 EVE Slang and Acronym Disambiguation When I was a newbie to EVE, I often found as I explored more of this game, that I ran into the wall of acronyms, abbreviations and slang. Sometimes you can figure out what's being said by context, other times by using the Lexicon but quite often I had to ask someone or persist in my noobishness. So, I present this posting, my attempt to put together a resource for the EVE Community, especially those needing to figure out what all the long-timers are saying to each other. If you have suggestions for additions to the list, let me know. I'll try to keep this post up to date. I'm quite sure I've left out a ton of good ones. And yes, I have put some real "duh" ones on here, because the one and two day old players won't know some of this. EVE Slang and Acronym List aggro Being attacked, usually by NPCs aggress Attacking or being attacked to get a flag (see flag) align Orienting on a warpable object to reduce time to enter warp. You should do this if you want to get out quickly. anti-pie Anti-(player)pirate AF Assault Frigate AU Astronomical Unit- the distance from Sol to Earth is one AU, about 150 million km blob Large gang of ships blue Has positive standings (blue + sign) BC Battlecruiser BCU Ballistic Control Unit, an old term for the new Ballistic Control System (bcs) BCS Ballistic Control System. BS Battleship camp Waiting at a static point, usually a jumpgate, to attack ships can See jetcan canflagging Taking ore or loot from a jetcan to get a flag in hopes of being attacked carebear Player who avoids PvP CONCORD NPC military in hisec CONCORDed Being blown up by CONCORD (ouchie) CONCORDokkened See CONCORDed corp Corporation (MMO term would be guild or player association) covops Covert Ops (duh) DD Doomsday Device (Run, Forrest, run!) dec/decced See wardec dict/dictor Interdictor or Interdictor Bubble/Interdiction Sphere domi Dominix DN Dreadnought (continued...) Sanctions, embargoes and blockades- discuss PVP with ISK!
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.18 06:29:00 - [2] Reserved. Sanctions, embargoes and blockades- discuss PVP with ISK!
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.18 06:29:00 - [3] Reserved2 Sanctions, embargoes and blockades- discuss PVP with ISK!
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.18 06:30:00 - [4] Reserved 3 Sanctions, embargoes and blockades- discuss PVP with ISK!
Sakura Nihil Tabula Rasa Systems The Star Fraction	Posted - 2007.05.18 07:55:00 - [5] Edited by: Sakura Nihil on 18/05/2007 07:54:03 While we already have a stickied list, this one is more in-depth... nudges the mods for consideration... edit: Might also want to peruse through this list to make it comprehensive.
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.18 08:55:00 - [6] Originally by: Sakura Nihil Edited by: Sakura Nihil on 18/05/2007 07:54:03 While we already have a stickied list, this one is more in-depth... nudges the mods for consideration... edit: Might also want to peruse through this list to make it comprehensive. Thanks, I checked out that one- a very impressive list. I took some of the entries and added them to this one but didn't take all; Sunny Mooninite's done a great job of collecting module acronyms and so forth, while I wanted a good resource for the abbreviations and slang. Thanks! Sanctions, embargoes and blockades- discuss PVP with ISK!
Aioa Planetary Assault Systems	Posted - 2007.05.18 09:55:00 - [7] Nice list. Nitpick: Heavy Assault Cruiser (not 'Attack'). Could add: Ceptor - Interceptor(I hate 'inty') Bubble - Mobile Warp Disruptor or interdiction sphere POS - Player-owned structure (or starbase) hm, will post more if I think of them.
Dark Shikari Caldari Imperium Technologies Firmus Ixion	Posted - 2007.05.18 10:24:00 - [8] Thron = Megathron Mega = Megathron Mega also = Megacyte ... --23 Member-- Listen to EVE-Trance Radio!
Dotard	Posted - 2007.05.18 10:53:00 - [9] So what does "WTFPWNBBQ" mean?
ToranagaSama	Posted - 2007.05.18 11:37:00 - [10] Dude thanks for that. Just wished you had posted that several months ago!!! :)
Cyberflayer Mercurialis Inc. Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate	Posted - 2007.05.18 15:20:00 - [11] You might also want to add common prefixes to ship names used to quickly identify what weapons or general setup the ship uses. For example, blasterthron (Megathron with blasters), nosdomi (Dominix with Nos), autopest (Tempest with autocannons) in the case of weapons, or nanocurse (Curse with a speed setup) in the case of a setup identification. While most of these are pretty self explanatory, you might decide it doesn't hurt to include them because most experienced players identify ships in this way instead of spelling everything out. Also, it took me forever to figure out for myself what an autopest was, and if just one noob is spared from that I'm happy. I was somewhat surprised to see you didn't have "sniper" in your list, which is commonly defined as a ship (almost always a battleship, but not always) geared towards maximum damage and range at the expense of all else. They're most common in fleets, where they can rely on the support of smaller ships as they commonly have little or no tanking capability. I didn't see "tank," "passive," or "active," either. While tank is easily definable and perhaps not needed, it might be nice for new players to know a "passive" tank relies on the intrinsic attributes of the ship for its defense (commonly augmented with modules light on the capacitor) such as sheer hitpoints, shield regeneration rate, or resistances, while an "active" tank features capacitor-heavy repairing modules and the modules required to keep them running. If this is all useless gibberish, then so be it, but if it's useful then I'm happy to contribute. --- Originally by: JabJabVVV Apparently titans cost over a billion isk to produce
Han Quattro Caldari	Posted - 2007.05.18 16:23:00 - [12] Don't forget the mighty 'Alt'. Alt = Alternate character on same account, or sometimes (probably a misnomer), character of second, third, etc., account.
Chigger Troutslayer Ferrus Syndicate ASGARDIAN EMPIRE	Posted - 2007.05.18 16:39:00 - [13] Originally by: Dotard So what does "WTFPWNBBQ" mean? What the F*, Purely Owned, Barbecued. As in... I jumped through the gate and got WTFPWNBBQ'd by a hostile gatecamp. Basically getting you a kicked.
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.18 17:52:00 - [14] Updated the list- thanks to all who have contributed. I told you there were some obvious ones I missed! :D Update: Sunny Mooninite has another excellent guide here, focused on ship and module abbreviations. I updated my list with some, but not all of his- his is exhaustive with respect to ship/module abbreviations, so I recommend it for all your module needs. Update 2 5/18/07: Thanks to Sakura Nihil, Aioa and Dark Shikari. Added several terms. Update 3 5/18/07: Added several new terms. Thanks to Cyberflayer, Dotard and Han Quattro. Sanctions, embargoes and blockades- discuss PVP with ISK!
Stefx	Posted - 2007.05.19 00:55:00 - [15] If podded = killed in your pod, what would be the appropriate verb to describe the situation where one's ship was destroyed (but he wasn't pod-killed / podded)?
Jaffa Agonar Minmatar Mithril Inc	Posted - 2007.05.19 01:53:00 - [16] Originally by: Stefx If podded = killed in your pod, what would be the appropriate verb to describe the situation where one's ship was destroyed (but he wasn't pod-killed / podded)? haxxing, logoffski (logoffskiing), or luckin it up?
Stefx	Posted - 2007.05.19 02:33:00 - [17] I thought logoffski meant someones who logs out of the game while in combat
Sakura Nihil Tabula Rasa Systems The Star Fraction	Posted - 2007.05.19 06:07:00 - [18] Edited by: Sakura Nihil on 19/05/2007 06:05:58 Originally by: Stefx If podded = killed in your pod, what would be the appropriate verb to describe the situation where one's ship was destroyed (but he wasn't pod-killed / podded)? I just use kill, as in: "I just killed that Stabber with Stiehl, my alliancemate" -> denotes I destroyed the ship, also you can replace 'that Stabber' with a pilots name, like: "I just killed Keoryte with Stiehl, my alliancemate". Originally by: Stefx I thought logoffski meant someones who logs out of the game while in combat And you'd be right, especially when they're in a hopeless situation. Unless you state you podded or killed and podded him, we just generally assume you stopped at the ship.
Aioa Planetary Assault Systems	Posted - 2007.05.21 09:59:00 - [19] Few more for a Monday morning bump TQ - Tranquility, the live Eve server SISI - Singularity, the Eve test server HAM - Heavy Assault missile LP - Loyalty Points RP - Research Points Chaining - The act of keeping one NPC alive from a group, in order to allow the entire group to respawn
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.21 19:00:00 - [20] Originally by: Aioa Few more for a Monday morning bump TQ - Tranquility, the live Eve server SISI - Singularity, the Eve test server HAM - Heavy Assault missile LP - Loyalty Points RP - Research Points Chaining - The act of keeping one NPC alive from a group, in order to allow the entire group to respawn Excellent, thanks. Added these to the list. Appreciate it.
xHalcyonx Amarr EmpiresMod	Posted - 2007.05.22 16:43:00 - [21] SB is also Sensor Booster.
Cyberflayer Mercurialis Inc. Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate	Posted - 2007.05.22 16:50:00 - [22] Originally by: Sakura Nihil Edited by: Sakura Nihil on 19/05/2007 06:05:58 Originally by: Stefx If podded = killed in your pod, what would be the appropriate verb to describe the situation where one's ship was destroyed (but he wasn't pod-killed / podded)? I just use kill, as in: "I just killed that Stabber with Stiehl, my alliancemate" -> denotes I destroyed the ship, also you can replace 'that Stabber' with a pilots name, like: "I just killed Keoryte with Stiehl, my alliancemate". Also, "popped" is used extensively. --- Originally by: JabJabVVV Apparently titans cost over a billion isk to produce
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.29 21:03:00 - [23] Update 5/29/2007: Added "Sensor Booster" to the "SB" definition (thanks xHalcyonx) and "popped" (thanks Cyberflayer and others).
Keshin Eurai Gallente	Posted - 2007.05.29 22:15:00 - [24] Thank you, thank you, thank you. --- "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Frederick Nietchze
Hammer Judge Gallente Southern Cross Incorporated	Posted - 2007.05.30 01:11:00 - [25] Edited by: Hammer Judge on 30/05/2007 01:11:48 Very useful guide. I added a link back here from my Newbie guide.
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.05.30 19:05:00 - [26] Originally by: Hammer Judge Edited by: Hammer Judge on 30/05/2007 01:11:48 Very useful guide. I added a link back here from my Newbie guide. Awesome, thanks. :)
Havoc Darkeen	Posted - 2007.05.30 19:16:00 - [27] Deserves to be a sticky!
Aioa Planetary Assault Systems	Posted - 2007.05.31 17:48:00 - [28] Originally by: Havoc Darkeen Deserves to be a sticky! I think so too.
Jimer Lins Gallente Sanctuary	Posted - 2007.06.01 21:10:00 - [29] Update 6/1/2007: Corrected bad formatting on one entry, added "tbh- to be honest" and changed NRDSI to NRDS/NRDSI as both variations get used from time to time. Thanks all.
Jacob Kies	Posted - 2007.06.05 03:46:00 - [30] I can't sticky it, but I can bump it! Enjoy all! bump

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