Acronym Dictionary

[Fyron]

And don't forget:

IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer)
PITA (Pain In The Arse)

[tbontob]

Thanx Skulky

Makes my job a bit easier with your listing!

[tbontob]

Well, I have the new listing.

It is growing like Topsy. As such, it may lose some of it's relevance unless we make a decision as to its purpose.

So, is the purpose of this dictionary is to be:
1) Common everyday usage? In this case we can turf over 20 MM acronyms.
2) Common everyday usage and MM acronyms?

I included the MM acronyms in the listing. It will be easy to remove some of them if we wish.

I didn’t include stuff like IANAL, PITA, and Star Trek/Deep Space Nine/Voyager/The Next Generation as IMHO they are peripheral acronyms and not germane to the task of providing useful and meaningful acronyms to most SE4 Users.

However, I have no intention of being heavy handed about this. If the consensus is to include one or more of the excluded items, I have no problem in doing so.

Here’s the new up-to-date listing.

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AI = Artificial Intelligence, Computer Player
APB = Anti-Proton Beam, Weapon
APLU = After Last Player Upload
AS = Allegiance Subverter, Weapon

B = Bridge, Component
BA = Baseship, Hull
BB = Battleship, Hull
BC = BattleCrusier, Hull
BS = Battle Station, Hull

CA = Crystalline Armor, Component
CC = Cruiser, Hull
CL = Colony Ship, Hull
CQ = Crew Quarters, Component
CR = Cruiser, Hull
CSM = Capital Ship Missile, Weapon
CX = Carrier, Hull (or CV)
CV = Computer Virus, Weapon

DS = Destroyer, Hull (or DD)
DN = Dreadnaught, Hull
DUC = Depleted Uranium Cannon, Weapon

ES = Escort, Hull

FG = Frigate, Hull (or FF)
FL = Large Fighter, Hull
FM = Medium Fighter, Hull
FS = Small Fighter, Hull

GGGGGGGGGG

HW = Homeworld, Planet type
HX = Heavy Carrier, Hull

IIIIIIIIII

JJJJJJJJJJ

KKKKKKKKKK

LC = Light Cruiser, Hull
LM = Large Mines, Hull
LS = Life Support, Component
LT = Large Transport, Hull
LX = Light Carrier, Hull

MB = Meson BLaster, Weapon
MC = Master Computer, Component
MM = Malfador Machinations, Creator of SE4
MM = Medium Mines, Hull
MT = Medium Transport, Hull

NSP = Null-Space Projector, Weapon

OA = Organic Armour, Component

PBEM = Play By Email
PBW = Play By Web, Game Mode
PDC = Point Defense Cannon, Weapon
PPB = Phased-Polaron Beam, Weapon

QR = Quantum Reactor, Component

RL = Large Drone, Hull
RM = Medium Drone, Hull
RS = Small Drone, Hull
RW = Ringworld, Hull

SB = Starbase, Hull
SDD = Self-Destruct Device, Weapon
SL = Large Satellite, Hull
SM = Medium Satellite, Hull
SM = Small Mines, Hull
SS = Small Satellite, Hull
SS = Space Station, Hull
ST = Small Transport, Hull
SW = Sphereworld, Hull
SY = Space Yard, Facility

TDB = Time Distortion Burst, Weapon
TL = Large Troops, Hull
TM = Medium Troops, Hull
TS = Small Troops, Hull

UUUUUUUUUU

vsAI = Solo Game vs Computer, Game Mode

WL = Large Weapon Platform, Hull
WM = Medium Weapon Platform, Hull
WMG = Wave-Motion Gun, Weapon
WP = Warp Point, Location,
WP = Weapon Platform, Hull
WS = Small Weapon Platform, Hull

XXXYYYZZZZ

**FUN STUFF AND NOT SO FUN STUFF**
BOHICA = Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
DNM = Devnull Mod
FQM = Fyron's Quadrant Mod
P&N = Pirates & Nomads mod
QNP = Quasi-Newtonian Propulsion
ST = Star Trek
SW = Star Wars
TDM = Tamper-Gamer-Daynar-Mephisto mod

[Gryphin]

tbontob,
Do you need this put into a spreadsheet or tab delimited file for easier manipulation?
I can help with that.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
tbontob,
Do you need this put into a spreadsheet or tab delimited file for easier manipulation?
I can help with that.

Hi Gryphin

I very much appreciate the offer to help, although I am not sure what you are offering.

I am managing the data on a spreadsheet now.

The spreadsheet makes the data relatively easy to handle and sort.

The hard part is deciding what data is meaningful to the readers of this dictionary. For myself, I would like a dictionary of the most common Acronym usage. With this view, some of the MM definitions would be excluded.

But maybe the majority want something different. In such a case, my view should not prevail.

To determine this question, I think I am going to have to take a poll.

Question is "Can I take a poll within this thread or must I start a new thread?"

[Slick]

After this list gets pretty complete and the additions slow down a bit, I recommend merging this with the Newbie FAQ. Good idea, btw.

Slick

[tbontob]

Thanx Slick

Must admit, my motives were somewhat selfish...the acronyms were driving me crazy at times!