Abbreviations, abrreviations

[Purple]

You got SMAC, but don't forget

SMAX = Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire and
SMAC/X for both games
TOT (ToT) = Test of Time

[Raleigh]

They should TOTALLY post this on the top!

[Evil_Eric_4]

what about

REXing
rapid expansion I think.

[lord of the mark]

Flattered and flabbergasted to be included on the list.

Let me add a few - some of the civ related term are specific to Civ2, but may come up here.


Civ Related:
SSC - Super Science City
NCC - No City Challenge
SL - Scenario League
SOG - Seeds of Greatness
RF - Red Front
CSC - Civ Scenario Collection
WOW - Wonder of World
Game Related
BHG: Big Huge Games
TOAW: The Operational Art of War
SMG: Sid Meirs Gettysburg
General:
SDNWOTN: Sarcasm Does Not Work on the Net
LOTR: Lord of the Rings
Names:
SG - Scouse Gits

[Skanky Burns]

MPP - Mutual Protection Pacts
RoP - Right of Passage agreement

[Bubba_B]

And now the most ironic acronym for this thread:

KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid

Damn, gotta go to language class to keep up.

[Lemmy]

i updated the list, but something went wrong and i can't figure out what, i seem to get the list two times, one time empty, without any words, and one time normal as it should be

[Wernazuma III]

I use "ntl" as a general abbreviation for "nevertheless"

[Oldenbarnevelt]

Originally posted by Lemmy
i updated the list, but something went wrong and i can't figure out what, i seem to get the list two times, one time empty, without any words, and one time normal as it should be

At first I thought the thread was empty. I hope you'll get rid of the empty list.

Here are some general game terms, some genre names frequently used in forums like news://comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic

4X: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate (Civ is, of course, the mother of all 4X games)
FPS: First Person Shooter
RPG: Role Playing Game
RTS: Real Time Strategy
TBS: Turn Based Strategy

Gegroet,

[TitanTim]

This is a good list being created here. Maybe we could go one step further and explain what some of the terms mean (as Lemmy has indicated).

[Skanky Burns]

*Bump*

Well, makes this a tad easier to find again

[Sarxis]

How could I miss it?

I mean- even though I have long ago unsubscribed from this thread, and I have disabled the email notice option, I still receive emails telling me somone has responded to this thread.

Why? WHYYYYY!?!?

[steelehc]

NCC No City Challenge



I don't mean to sound ignorant (too late) but what the hell is this? You play with no cities? IDTLTSTGFITP!

It Doesn't Take Long To Spot The Gaping Flaw In That Plan


Steele

[MrWhereItsAt]

Spink and yo_yo_yo_hey or something were PERMABANNED?? Why and how did they become so often referred to that they needed abbrevs of their own? (See 2nd page of this thread)

[Zoid]

KMFDM - Kein Merheit Für Die Mitgleid

Acronym for a very cool german band...

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by steelehc
NCC No City Challenge



I don't mean to sound ignorant (too late) but what the hell is this? You play with no cities? IDTLTSTGFITP!

It Doesn't Take Long To Spot The Gaping Flaw In That Plan


Steele

Got to get that goodie hut

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by steelehc
NCC No City Challenge



I don't mean to sound ignorant (too late) but what the hell is this? You play with no cities? IDTLTSTGFITP!

It Doesn't Take Long To Spot The Gaping Flaw In That Plan


Steele

Exactly. You just pop huts, get units from them, and conquer. You disband any cities you conquer ASAP. Apparently it is possible to win this way, at the very beginning, before AI has started to build up. Ive never tried it. It is also a good way to learn about hut popping strategies, I guess.

LOTM

[steelehc]

No cities. Damn. I respect anyone who can do that. I am lucky to get five-six units from huts. Well, you learn something new every day...

Steele

[Gramphos]

You need to be on one continent.

[Lemmy]

hey, i didn't know my thread was topped
i really should check the general forum more often, well i guess i really have fix the layout now....

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Lemmy
hey, i didn't know my thread was topped
i really should check the general forum more often, well i guess i really have fix the layout now....

It wasn't topped when I made that last reply.

[Gramphos]

I've fixed the layout. Attached is a textfile (give it .txt) with the entire table area. This time I comment all newlines instaed of making it one single line, as this looks better.

[prince_aki]

What about this!!!! ? - WAT

It has a double meaning and is comical.

[Boney]

Could we also include a list of acs/abs used for wonders, I often read threads with people abbreviating wonders. I can never seem to guess.


eg:
Leo's
NTOG or Newton's
GL
Pen
HS
HGOB
etc. etc.

[Zoid]

OK, I know this isn´t technically a abbrev. but what about "trolling"? What does it mean? I´ve seen it a couple of times on the board, and I suppose it has something to do with spamming/flaming and such. Enlighten me please

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
OK, I know this isn´t technically a abbrev. but what about "trolling"? What does it mean? I´ve seen it a couple of times on the board, and I suppose it has something to do with spamming/flaming and such. Enlighten me please

Trolling - Deliberately posting off-topic or provocative material to a forum, message board or newgroup with the deliberate intention of creating a flamewar and disrupting the discussion. More broadly some use this term for any repetitive off topic posting. The precise definition can get quite controversial in some forums.

LOTM

[Zoid]

OK, thanks, LOTM!

[Fredric Drum]

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(Great, I can use caps lock as much as I want to without being flamed for shouting by those some silly morons. And by the way, it's great weather outside right now. I'm off to play a game of Sid Meier's Civilization three, so if you'll please excuse me, as you understand I have better things to do than trying to come up with silly acronyms...)

[Seeker]

ECS: "Eternal China Syndrome"

refers to the ability of a big Civ to exist pretty much undisturbed for 6000 years.

It was first used in the List discussions where some bright light was on about simulating the 'rise and fall of empires' or something.

It was out of those discussions that the conversations on Culture, Religion, etc grew and thus indirectly that the abomination of Culture Flipping and Resistors came about (all though the way it sounded in the list was a lot better)

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Fredric Drum
I have better things to do than trying to come up with silly acronyms...)

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