I did some changes. Namely added BC,which stands for Battle Cruiser and IFF (real world military term). I'd rather leave the factions out of it,
but for some weird reason I'll update them to disco wiki.
Jousting=head to head firefight, usually ships move in more-less straight line towards each other shooting all guns. They turn after each pass and repeat. Usual fight stlye.
Farming=orbiting low level enemy base/planet, killing weak NPC ships and collecting pilots. Its frowned down upon.
' Wrote:Me being relatively new to this server and having a break of 1,5 years of any FL online gaming I find that everyday brings new definitions, words, abbreviations and expressions to the table to digest. Especially this becomes important because rule violations and sanction reports are curt by nature like "player xxx fined for <insert term here>.
So I propose a short explanatory term dictionary where FL slang is explained because someone is bound to ask the same things I have asked in threads. So please expand this and if someone would kindly take this from my hands since I can update this in bits and pieces only. And please correct the mistakes I've made.
IFF, Identify Friend or Foe. Mention that this is your tag, it causes a lot of confusion.
indie(s), Independent(s). Players, e.g. police tagged, who carry out acts according to a role they play without belonging to a official police faction.
Ion storm, used to indicate that server has crashed and is rebooting the application.
J
JG, jump gate between systems.
JH, jump hole between systems.
Jousting, Head to head firefight. Usually ships move in more-less straight line towards each other shooting with all guns. They turn after each pass and repeat. K
KDGA - Kirche der Grunnen Adler, translates to Church of the Green Eagle. Rheinland state religion, worships the Chancellor as a god.
Kriegsmarine - German name for the Rheinland Navy.
KNF, Kusari Naval Forces
KoS, Kill on sight L
LF, light fighter
LH, Lane Hacker(s) faction
LNS, Liberty Navy Ship
LNT, Liberty Navy Transport
LPI, Liberty Police Incorporated faction Comment: Kill the "faction" word in that sentence, por favor.
LR, Liberty Rogues. M
MNS - Maltese Navy Ship Comment: This is just like LNS, HMS, or RNC, simply the Outcast version, and used by several factions.
N
NB, New Berlin system
NB, bots, nanos, nanobots, items used to repair hull damage.
NHS, Nomad Hunter Ship Never seen this one before, presuming it is a faction tag, and should be removed
NL, New London system
NPC, non player controlled (ship)
NT, New Tokyo system
NY, New York system O
OC, Outcast
ooc/OOC, out of character. Expressing him/herself in a manner not suitable for his/her roleplay in server. OOC chat's de facto notation in the server is //I'm eating ice cream a lot when I'm watching 24 or Lost.
ooRP, out of role play. See RP. P
PC, player controlled (ship)
Powergaming generally means a person's main focus is making their character (ship) as powerful as possible. Because that is their main focus the persons "role play" suffers, is non-existent, or only exists to rationalize why they think they are so uber-super-hella-awesome.
PVP/PvP, player versus player combat Q R
Red Cat - Red Catamaran Blood Dragon Bomber
RAB, Revolutionary Army Bomber... A bomber belonging to the SCRA Coalition Player Faction. Not Xenos!
RACS, Revolutionary Army Capital Ship
RAGB, Revolutionary Army Gunboat
RAHF, Revolutionary Army Heavy Fighter
RAI, Revolutionary Army Intelligence
RALF , Revolutionary Army Light Fighter
RAPS , Revolutionary Army Prison Ship
RATV, Revolutionary Army Transport Vessel
RC, Raven Claw. Advanced VHF.
rep, reputation. Indicates the attitude towards the other factions. Scales from hostile to neutral to friendly.
Rep fixing means making the reputation to align with current character/faction default standings towards other factions. This can be achieved by means of shooting certain faction's ships or completing missions for that faction you are trying to be friendly with or aborting/failing to complete missions for factions you are trying to become neutral or hostile with.
RH - Rheinland
RNC, Rheinland Navy Cruiser or maybe Rheinland Navy Capital ships (un-official faction) Comment: Not an unofficial faction, this is the game tag for Rheinland Military caps. Used by both indies and the RM. Same as LNS, MNS, or HMS
RP, role playing. Acting and conducting him/herself in a manner that fits the player's current status and his factions modus operandi.
RT, Raven's Talon "Elite" VHF.
Run, Trade run from point A to point B and back.
S
Shield camping, Ttrying to dodge when you loose shields so you don't loose your hull. Once you get your shield back, you continue with the attack. It is considered 'unfair' by some, but in fact it is a legal strategy.
Shieldrunning, Shield running is when a ship cruises away to recharge shields, then reengages with his shield and hull at full strength. Against the Discovery server rules.
SHF, super heavy fighter
SN, Supernova antimatter cannon
Snubnose - Rheinland Bomber
SP, Single Player
SS, Screenshot T
tag, prefix or affix used to indicate player's faction.
The Angels, Discovery Angels Organization. Player faction, online helpers.
TL, Trade lane
TR/Tr, Transport (ship) U V
VHF, very heavy fighter W X Y Z
ZOI, Zone of Influence. A collection of systems where a faction's presence in acceptable in their normal role play.
Updated:
25. 03. 2008 - Removed the player faction names because Xoria already has a good list.
27. 03. 2008 - Added IC
30. 03. 2008 - Added FP
20. 04. 2008 - Added ZOI
03. 06. 2008 - Added FAM/FLAM
30. 06. 2008 - Added BC, IFF and appended RNC.
09. 07. 2008 - Added Ion storm
That should help clear stuff up. None of that is factions, its all terms that come up often enough to get annoying to explain.