List of acronyms?

[Jarkko]

Hello!

I've been toying with the demo for a few days, and ordered the game yesterday. Waiting anxiously for it to arrive http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Anyway, reading this forum I see lots of acronyms used. I believe some/most of them are used in the manual, but is there a list for the acronyms used on this forum? I didn't find them in the FAQ, perhaps it is stupidity or temporal blindness, in which case I'd like to recieve the push to the correct direction http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Acronyms like SP, RP etc. Without understanding the acronyms the information recieved is a bit limited http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Any such list available?

Cheers,

-Jarkko

[tka]

Hi! /threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Finland.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Here is link (http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB74&Number=256267&Forum= All_Forums&Words=IW%20%3D%20Illwinter&Searchpage=0 &Limit=25&Main=256256&Search=true&where=bodysub&Na me=4384&daterange=1&newerval=5&newertype=y&olderva l=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post256267)

And a couple more:
Thug - tough guy, able to kill several lesser units but does not survive against decent magic.
SP - Single-player
AQ - Air Queen, Queen of Elemental Air
WQ - Water Queen

[Jarkko]

Thank's tka http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Clears up a lot!

RP is then Rainbow Pretender too (just like RB)?
And I've seen SP used in connection to MP-gaming, so I guess somebody could use SP instead of SC?

[tka]

Jarkko said:
RP is then Rainbow Pretender too (just like RB)?


Yes, AFAIK.


And I've seen SP used in connection to MP-gaming, so I guess somebody could use SP instead of SC?


I have never heard that SP could mean SC. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
Maybe somebody can correct me if I am wrong.

[PrinzMegaherz]

Some things you might want to know:

Mad castleing: Someone who is building cheap castles in virtually every province to make it nearly impossible to conquer his territory in a short time. If played well this is an important part of a winning strategy

Clam hoarding: Astral / Water Nations use their water gems to forge insane amounts of clams, which produce one astral gem each per turn. This is one of the more successfull winning strategies.

Drive by priesting: This means you gather a lot of priests, script them to banish banish banish flee and attack large enemy undead hordes. Mostly used against ermor, this is a common strategy.

S&A: Tien Chi Theme Spring and Autumn
GoH: Gift of health nature spell. One of the few possibilities to get rid of afflictions, so this is a spell you will see in most games.
GoR: Another important nature spell, you can change units into commanders. Especially usefull to high level summons like Tartarian Giants, Doom Horrors, Vastnesses and so on (although the Last one is no summon)

Hope this helps a bit

[Jarkko]

Thank's PrinzMegahertz, I was wondering what clam hoarding is, altough I had a good guess (as it seems now) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Alneyan]

I guess SP would mean "Super Pretender" in the case of a competitve game; but SC would probably be more accurate, and less confusing here.

Speaking of SC: it stands for Super Combattant, that is any single creature powerful enough to fight on its own (in the early game, it would be any creature able to take Independent provinces without any sort of support, and without breaking a sweat).

RP would be more like "Roleplay" to me, when you are actually your Pretender (or any other unit for this matter). But then, such is the problem with acronyms. A Rainbow Mage (yet another name for them) would be a Pretender with a few picks in several magic paths, if not all of them; its purpose would be to find most sites, forge many items and cast quite a few spells.

And you have the Internet lingo acronyms, such as lol (for lots of laughs, or laughing out loud), IM(H)O (In My (Humble) Opinion), IIRC (If I Recall Correctly), AFAIK/R (As Far As I Know/Recall) or BTW (By The Way). I do not have any lind at hand for one such list of common acronyms though.

[Jarkko]

Thank's Alneyan.

Here is a short list of *general* acronyms. These have nothing to do with Dom2 necessarily, but a list I check in case I forget something when in IRC or the EU2 forums http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
AAR After action report
AFAICS As far as I can see
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AKA Also Known As
ASAP As Soon As Possible
BBIAF Be Back In A Few...
BBL Be Back Later
BCNU Be Seeing You
BG Board Game
BRB Be Right Back
BTDT Been There, Done That
BTW By The Way
CF-up Cluster F***-up
CG Computer Game
CTD crash to desktop.
CYL See You Later
dl download(ing)
DOW Declaration of War
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FUBAR Fed/Fu**ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYI For Your Information
GD&amp;R Grinning, Ducking and Running
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
IAIYH It's All In Your Head...
IANAL I am not a lawyer
IDK I Don't Know
IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly
IMO / IMHO In My (Humble) Opinion
IOW In Other Words
IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
IYKWIMAITYD If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do
JK Just Kidding!
JMO / JMHO Just My (Humble) Opinion
K or K! Okay (I Got It!)
KISS Keep It Short, Stupid! or Keep it Simple, Stupid!
LBR/LGR Little Boys/Girl's Room
LMAO Laughing My *** Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
mp manpower
MP Multiplay(er)
MYOB Mind Your Own Business!
NT No Text
NTA Non-Technical Acronym
OIC Oh, I See!
OK Okay (all correct or all right)
OMG Oh My God
OT Off Topic
OTOH On The Other Hand
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
PITA Pain In The ***
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PMJI Pardon My Jumping In
PS Post Script (In addition to...)
ROFL Rolling on floor laughing
ROTFL Roll On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My *** Off
ROTFLOLAPMP Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud
RTM / RTFM Read the (*beep*) Manual
SO Significant Other
SOHF Sense Of Humor Failure
SP Single play(er)
SPAM Stupid Person's AdvertiseMent
sub substitute
SWALK Sealed With A Loving Kiss
TIA Thanks In Advance
TPTB The Powers That Be
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTYL Talk To You Later
WB Welcome Back
VBG Very Big Grin
WRT With Respect To
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
YWIA You're Welcome In Advance
</pre><hr />

I'll be adding Dom2 acronyms to that http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Nagot Gick Fel]

tka said:

Jarkko said:
RP is then Rainbow Pretender too (just like RB)?


Yes, AFAIK.




Most often RP is used to mean 'research point(s)'. As in, "an unexperienced Seraph is worth 5 RP in a magically neutral dominion". Or, "I'm 34 RP short of learning Orb Lightning this turn".

[Jarkko]

The Dom2 acronyms I've seen defined so far:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
$ Random sorcery pick
* Open ended, like "oe", for dice rolls. Sometimes it also means a random elemental magic pick
? Random magic pick
AD Arch Devil
AE/LAE Air Elemental/Lesser Air Elemental
AQ Air Queen
AW Abysian Warlock (I'm not sure if this was the actual name used in that thread)
BH Blood Hunt
BoB Boots of the Behemoth
BoH Blood of Humans (Abysia theme)
BoT Burden of Time
BVC Bane Venom Charm
Clam hoarding Astral / Water Nations use their water gems to forge insane amounts of clams, which produce one astral gem each per turn.
CotW Call of the Wild / Call of the Winds
Drive by priesting Gathering a lot of priests, script them to banish banish banish flee and attack large enemy undead hordes.
FA Fallen Angel
FAWESDNBHU Fire Air Water Earth Astral Death Nature Blood Holy Unholy
FFTS Flames from the Sky
FoB Fountain of Blood
FoD Fiend of Darkness
GoH Gift of Health
GoR Gift of Reason.
HfH Horde from Hell / Heat from Hell
ID Iron Dragon/Ice Devil
IW Illwinter
JK Johan Karlsson (Designer)
JMC Just Man's Cross
JO Johan Osterman
KO Kristoffer Osterman (Designer)
KoEF / KoEE King of Elemental Fire / Earth.
LotN Lord of the Night
Mad castleing Building cheap castles in virtually every province.
MD Magic Duel
MW Murdering Winter
PBEM Play by email
PD Province Defense
PD Province Defence
PoD Prince of Death
RB Rainbow Mage/Pretender, a human with a couple points in most magic paths.
RP Research points (also Role Play)
RPG Role Playing Game
S&amp;A Tien Chi Theme Spring and Autumn
SC Supercombatant/Saber Cherry
SDR Sanguine Dousing Rod
SoS Staff of Storms
Thug Tough guy able to kill lesser units but does not survive against magic
TT Taurotyrannos
VotD Vengeance of the Dead
VQ Vampire Queen
WQ Water Queen
</pre><hr />

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Jarkko said:
The Dom2 acronyms I've seen defined so far:



No VQ? How strange! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

BTW, no JK or KO?

[Zen]

NGF!

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Zen said:
NGF!



Damn! How did I miss this one? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/stupid.gif

[Ironhawk]

lol

[Jarkko]

Nagot Gick Fel said:

No VQ? How strange! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

BTW, no JK or KO?


Well, like I said, I need definitions to know what acronyms mean. Without definitions you can launch all the acronyms you want, but it won't make me understand them (which might of course be the intention and a "hilarious" way to show have st00pid the n00b is)... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[tka]

Nagot Gick Fel said:

tka said:

Jarkko said:
RP is then Rainbow Pretender too (just like RB)?


Yes, AFAIK.




Most often RP is used to mean 'research point(s)'. As in, "an unexperienced Seraph is worth 5 RP in a magically neutral dominion". Or, "I'm 34 RP short of learning Orb Lightning this turn".



Ah! Of course, I knew there was something silly in my post. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/redface.gif

[tka]

VQ - Vampire Queen
KO - Kristoffer Osterman (Designer)
JK - Johan Karlsson (Designer)
JO - Johan Osterman

[Jarkko]

Thank's tka http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I suppose those would have been self-evident if I had the manual, but as I don't have the game yet in my hands...

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Jarkko said:

Nagot Gick Fel said:

No VQ? How strange! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

BTW, no JK or KO?


Well, like I said, I need definitions to know what acronyms mean. Without definitions you can launch all the acronyms you want, but it won't make me understand them (which might of course be the intention and a "hilarious" way to show have st00pid the n00b is)... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif



What I found "hilarious" is the VQ (Vampire Queen) seemed to be everyone's favorite pretender (and thus favorite acronym) not so long ago. There are clues in that list that let me think you fetched it from an older thread (?), so I was somewhat surprised this one was missing.

For JK and KO (the Illwinter team), they use their initials when posting on this board.