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Old February 20, 2001, 07:28   #1
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Acronyms - Final Help Thread
Games:

Civ - (ha, ha, ha) Civilization
Civ 2 - (ha, ha, ha) Civilization 2
Civ ToT - Civilization Test of Time
Civ FW - Fantastic Worlds
MPGE - Civilization II Multiplayer Gold Edition
Civ 3 - (ha, ha, ha) Civilization 3

SMAC - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Ctp - Civilization: Call to Power
Ctp 2 - Call to Power 2

MOO - Masters of Orion
MOO2 – Masters of Orion 2
MOO3 – Masters of Orion 3

RRT - RailRoad Tycoon

SBotf - Star Trek Birth of the Federation

AOE - age of empires, designed by Bruce shelly, a civ1 designer, it was supposed to be "Civ in real time" it wasnt, but it was still a good game.
ROR - Rise of Rome -expansion pack for AOE
AOK - Age of Kings - sequel to AOE, considered by some a major landmar in RTS games.
AOK:TC AOK, the conquerors, expansion pack for aok. Supposed to have fixed the notorious "town center push" bug.

EE - Empire earth, being designed by rick goodman, one on the diegners of AOE (damn small world, aint it?) Supposedly will truly be "Civ in real time".

EU - Europa Universalis - out some months in Europe, soon to be published in US, a civ like game, real time pausible, covering period 1492-1789, supposedly much more realistic ( to the point where discussion of it has been kept off of grognard newsgroups only because you can win without going to war)

Strategies/Challenges:

ICS - Infinite City Sleaze/Sprawl/Strategy ... a very effective, but much hated strategy of perpetually founding new cities without regard for city improvements, etc. The root of the problem is that every city has a "free" worker on the city tile, which results in many small cities having a higher output than few large cities.
OCC - One City Challenge ... this is an attempt to win the game at Deity level by sending a ship to Alpha Centaury, but never building/conquering/bribing more than one city.

Concepts:

WLTCD - We Love The Consul Day
Occurs when more than half the population of a city is happy and there are no unhappy people. Allows one unit per turn growth under Republic and Democracy. There are many variations on this abbreviation depending on the government type (eg. We Love The King Day under Monarchy).
SE - Social Engineering
PBEM - Play By E-Mail
MP - Multiplayer
KISS - Keep it Short and Simple / Keep it Simple, Stupid
LASS - Land, Air, Sea, and Space
CLAS-D - Close, Land, Air, Sea, -Defense
SSC - Super-Science City: A city (usually the capital) that when it is complete will contain the Colossus, Copernicus's Observatory, Isaac Newton's College, a library, university, Research Lab (or benefits from S.E.T.I. Project), and 3 great trade routes. Will result in a city that grants your civ most of it's science output. In OCC games the one city is ALWAYS a SSC.

Civilization II Wonders:

MPE should be Marco Polo's Embassy
MC also=Michelangelo's Chapel
JSB= J.S. Bach's Cathedral
KRC= Kind Richard's Crusade
HG = Hanging Gardens
Mike's = Michaelangelo's Chapel
SoL = Statue of Liberty

Non Apolyton specific acronyms:

IMHO: In My Humble Opinion
IMO: In My (Certainly not humble) Opinion
BTW: By The Way
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
LOL: laughing out loud
LMAO: laughing my a- out
ROFL: rolling on the floor, laughing
ROFLMAO: rolling on the floor, laughing my a- out
etc. - Et Cetera (and so forth)
ASAP - as soon as possible
DL - Data Link / Data List / Double Login
IIRC - If I Remember Correctly
BICBW - But I Could Be Wrong
j/k - Just kidding
AFK - Away From Keyboard
BRB - Be Right Back


Other:

OT - Off Topic
DL - Double Login

Acronym Finder:

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Old February 20, 2001, 07:31   #2
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Possible to stick this on top and make it non-postable, Yin, MarkG, DanQ?
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Old February 20, 2001, 09:09   #3
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Roman,

This is indeed great work! But I'm not sure that sticking it to the top of the forum is the way to go since a lot of it is non-Civ3 stuff. However, I bet Markos could find a special spot for it on the forum...some place all of Apolyton could use and add to.
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Old February 20, 2001, 12:31   #4
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True, it probably does not need to be stuck at the top, but it would be nice if it could somehow be made easily accessible for future reference.
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quote:

Originally posted by Zulu Elephant on 02-20-2001 12:36 PM
surely "Civ FW"?


Thanks!

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Old February 20, 2001, 14:58   #6
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uh, sorry, late additions:

IIRC - If I Remember Correctly
BICBW - But I Could Be Wrong
j/k - Just kidding

and two not likely on a forum:

AFK - Away From Keyboard
BRB - Be Right Back
 
Old February 20, 2001, 14:59   #7
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Good stuff, Roman. Rather than 'sticky' the thread, may I be so presumptuous as to recommend that Yin closes, or 'locks' it. I then suggest that one of us hails Darkcloud and asks that he adds a link to this thread in his 'Related Threads' post. Then, when it disappears into the dusty realms of pages 2,3 and 4, all we need to do to access it is go onto the Related Threads page, and click on the link

Have I repeated what I said in the other Acronyms thread? Oh, well. I hope it's still of some use. With a bit of luck, this should be the very post that takes me to the dizzying heights of the rank of 'Warlord'. Ah, sweet power.
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Old February 21, 2001, 01:36   #8
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Civ FT - Fantastic Worlds

surely "Civ FW"?
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Old February 21, 2001, 03:41   #9
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This should go in the 'Apolyton' forum...
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Old February 21, 2001, 10:24   #10
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Old February 21, 2001, 20:41   #11
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Old February 22, 2001, 00:18   #12
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quote:

Originally posted by Roman on 02-20-2001 06:28 AM
Games:

IMHO: In My Humble Opinion
IMO: In My (Certainly not humble) Opinion
BTW: By The Way
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
LOL: laughing out loud
LMAO: laughing my a- out
ROFL: rolling on the floor, laughing
ROFLMAO: rolling on the floor, laughing my a- out



Just a minor nit, LMAO is laughing my a-- off, not out. Also, I've seen IMNSHO for In My Not So Humble Opinion.

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