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[Makenzie71]

Seriously...can we make a list here? It's like you guys feel the need to abbreviate everything or come up with quirky little tags for things. Half the time I spend on this forum is divided with google trying to learn what you people are saying.

Know an abbreviation or acronym? share it...I'll try to edit them all into one alphabetical list in this post.


AFK = Away from keyboard
Air Airstrike (gameplay)
Alpha: The amount of damage 'Mech can put out with an Alpha Strike
Arty Artillery Strike (gameplay)
AC: Autocannon
BAP/CAP: Beagle/Clan Active Probe
BT: Battletech
CC: Capellan Confederation
CLG: Combat Loss Grouping (phenomenon where a group of 'Mechs reaches critical damage states at around the same time and begin dying together. That thing you see where everyone on one side starts suddenly dying has an actual name)
CW: Community Warfare
DC: Disconnect or Draconis Combine
DOA Dead On Arrival (Disconnected/AFK drops)
DPS Damage Per Second
ECM: Electronic Counter Measure
ES or Endo: Endo-Steel
ER Extended Range (applies to lasers and PPC's)
FS: Federated Suns
FF: Friendly Fire or Ferro Fibrous
FRR: Free Rasalhague Republic
FWL: Free Worlds League
GG: Good Game (should be used sincerely)
ggclose: When you get stomped hard and the game was neither good nor close.
INC Incoming (gameplay)
JJ: Jump Jet
LASER Light Amplified by Simulated Emission of Radiation (for Juodas!)
LB-X AC: Lubalin Ballistics Autocannon (only weapon class named after the original brand manufacturer of the weapon in lore)
LC: Lyran Commonwealth
LL Large Laser
LPL Large Pulse Laser
LRM Long Range Missile
MG: Machine Gun
ML Medium Laser
MPL Medium Pulse Laser
MRM medium range missle (also not in the game)
PoorDubs 1.4 Heatsinks outside the engine
PPC particle projection cannon
PP FLD Pinpoint Front Load Damage
PUG Pick Up Group
PopTart peek-a-boo-shoot strategy
RA/LA right or left arm
RAC rotary autocannon (though not in the game yet)
RL/LL right or left leg
RTB Return To Base (gameplay)
RT/LT/CT: Right/Left/Center Torso
SL Small Laser
SPL Small Pulse Laser
SRM Short Range Missile
SSRM Streak Short Range Missile
STD Standard (usually referring to engine, armor, or heat sinks)
TAG: Target Acquisition Gear
TruDubs 2.0 Double Heatsinks Inside Engine
TT Table Top (table top game)
UAC ultra autocannon
UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
XL: Extra Light

Edited by Makenzie71, 27 September 2015 - 03:22 PM.

[Deathlike]

INC = Incoming
RTB = Return To Base
AIR/ARTY = Airstrike/Artillery

[FupDup]

Trudubs: Double heatsinks inside the engine that are twice as effective as Standard Heatsinks (2.0x).

[Juodas Varnas]

LASER - Light Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

Edited by Juodas Varnas, 27 September 2015 - 08:18 PM.

[Deathlike]

FupDup, on 27 September 2015 - 11:45 AM, said:

Trudubs: Double heatsinks inside the engine that are twice as effective as Standard Heatsinks (2.0x).

You forgot the other..

Poordubs: Double heatsinks outside the engine (1.4x)

[Mcgral18]

PP FLD, old and outdated, but Pinpoint Frontloaded Damage

PoorDub, the 1.4/0.14 external double heatsinks

PUG, Pick Up Gamer or Game

[FupDup]

ggclose: When you get stomped hard and the game was neither good nor close.

[Makenzie71]

FupDup, on 27 September 2015 - 11:55 AM, said:

ggclose: When you get stomped hard and the game was neither good nor close.

I've been wanting to know what this was about for a long time and never found a decent explanation. Thanks!

[FupDup]

Goose Waffle: Slang for Gauss Rifle

Lurms: Slang for LRMs

[Triordinant]

CASE - Cellular Ammunition Storage Equipment that almost no IS 'mech uses in an actual match but comes for free in all locations (torsos, arms, legs) of all Clan 'mechs without taking up space or weight.

Edited by Triordinant, 27 September 2015 - 12:56 PM.

[Osteo2001]

DPS - damage per second
RNG / RNG-sus / RN Jesus - random number generator (i.e. a dice roll, a hold over from TT)
TT - Table top referring to the BettleTech game this shooter is based on

[Nathan Foxbane]

TAG: Target Acquisition Gear
BAP/CAP: Beagle/Clan Active Probe
MG: Machine Gun
UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
RT/LT/CT: Right/Left/Center Torso
JJ: Jump Jet
AC: Autocannon
LB-X AC: Lubalin Ballistics Autocannon (only weapon class named after the original brand manufacturer of the weapon in lore)
DC: Disconnect or Draconis Combine
FS: Federated Suns
FF: Friendly Fire or Ferro Fibrous
CLG: Combat Loss Grouping (phenomenon where a group of 'Mechs reaches critical damage states at around the same time and begin dying together. That thing you see where everyone on one side starts suddenly dying has an actual name)
LC: Lyran Commonwealth
CC: Capellan Confederation
GG: Good Game (should be used sincerely)
FRR: Free Rasalhague Republic
FWL: Free Worlds League
Alpha: The amount of damage 'Mech can put out with an Alpha Strike
ES or Endo: Endo-Steel
XL: Extra Light
CW: Community Warfare
BT: Battletech

Edited by Nathan Foxbane, 27 September 2015 - 12:48 PM.

[Tincan Nightmare]

UAC for ultra autocannon
PPC for particle projection cannon
RAC for rotary autocannon (though not in the game yet)
MRM for medium range missle (also not in the game)
RA/LA right or left arm
RL/LL right or left leg
Clans for power creep .

[ColdPsyker1]

STD- standard engine

[Makenzie71]

Please try not to go back and edit new stuff into previous posts unless you identify it somehow...if you add them after I've already edited your contribution into the mix I will not know it.

All contributions up to this post have been copied and are currently being added.

[Hollow Earth]

ECM: Electronic Counter Measure

One i personally use: CWAM: Clans where a mistake

[Prc]

DOA = Dead on arrival
AFK = Away from keyboard or "A free kill" depending on your gaming background

[Kira Onime]

OP stands for "arctic cheetah" depending on who you ask.

[SuomiWarder]

add Poptart. Those people who mainly jump up from behind cover to shoot and repeat again. Over and over.
We use OpFor a lot to mean Opposing Force. The Bad Guys who are all on the other team of course.

[Trainee]

SSRM=Streak Short Range Missile