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

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

Acronyms like SP, RP etc. Without understanding the acronyms the information recieved is a bit limited Any such list available?

Cheers,

-Jarkko

[tka]

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Here is link

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 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.
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)

[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

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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&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

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I'll be adding Dom2 acronyms to that

[Nagot Gick Fel]

tka said:

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:

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$ 	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&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

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