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Largs, Scotland
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TLA = Three Letter Acronym
ETLA = Four Letter Acronym (Extended Three Letter Acronym)
Don't you just hate abbrevs?
Working for the International Brotherhood of Magicians, I'm steeped in acronyms and abbrevs, and they are mainly used to support the old strategy: If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em!
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Bratislava, Slovakia
Sep 2000
time: 05:12
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Games:
Civ - (ha, ha, ha) Civilization
Civ 2 - (ha, ha, ha) Civilization 2
Civ ToT - Civilization Test of Time
Civ FT - 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
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
Other:
OT - Off Topic
Acronym Finder:
www.Google.com
[This message has been edited by Roman (edited February 14, 2001).]
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Socialist Dictator
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Communist Party of Apolyton
Dec 2000
time: 06:12
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SBotf Star Trek Birth of the Federation
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:12
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games
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)
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JosefGiven
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Tavistock, Devon, UK
Jan 2001
time: 05:12
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quote:
Originally posted by Theben on 02-18-2001 10:42 PM
...And your thread probably got moved because it must have been relevant to how this site operates somehow.
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Ah, thanks for clearing that up, mate. The DL allegation had me worried. BTW, I was aware why the thread was moved...apparently, it was too 'on-topic' to be off-topic.
On another note, I had an idea at work, today, Roman. I notice that this worthy thread has become, shall I say, diluted by irrelevant posts. Most of these have been posted by me!! 
So my suggestion is this. Gather all the useful acronyms and compile them into one massive list. Then, re-post the list as another thread (suggest "Acronyms - Revised"). Then, ask Yin if he would be so kind as to 'close' this revised thread so's it remains a 'read-only' archive, and ask Darcloud if he could reference it into his Related Threads post.
Of course, this is only a suggestion, and I know we 'newbies' must know our place (bow, scrape, etc.)
How long is it before I lose this accursed 'newbie' moniker, anyway? It makes me feel...dirty. No matter how hard I scrub the filth won't come off!!
[This message has been edited by JosefGiven (edited February 19, 2001).]
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Roman
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Bratislava, Slovakia
Sep 2000
time: 05:12
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Games:
Civ - (ha, ha, ha) Civilization
Civ 2 - (ha, ha, ha) Civilization 2
Civ ToT - Civilization Test of Time
Civ FT - 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
Other:
OT - Off Topic
DL - Double Login
Acronym Finder:
www.Google.com
[This message has been edited by Roman (edited February 20, 2001).]
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13-02-2001 04:28
I've seen it written in the Off-Topic thread, and it's got me scratching my head.
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