Snowglobe's AO Terminology List

[Wizardkiss]

Originally posted by Cz
Btw, Snowglobe, would you mind if I used your list to update the dictionary on the AO site? I wouldn't add everything you have here, as that would make the list a bit too long (imo), but I'm sure I'll find some things on your list that ought to be on ours too.

Sure. Thanks for the sticky.

[Pysgod1978]

PB-pocket bosses 1. bosses that can be reincarnated using patterns, nano crystal and subdued novictum,resulting object can be fit in backpack.

gogogo - 1. to go 2. to be ordered to go,as into 25% zone for tower battle after everybody is buffed and ready


Eel- 1. omni supply guy in avalon,kill him to get black book


smug- 1. clan supply master in wailing wastes,black book of eel goes to him


raidbot - 1. special bot set up by some Clans or corporations or neut orgs for purposes of doing raids on various high lvl NPCs or sometimes on bases


raid - 1. an attack on an NPC for certain items or on a base


base - 1.place that an org ,clan or corporation controls by use of towers


CT- 1. control tower,main tower of a base used to control a spot of land


warrnet - 1. specific channel set up for raids on mercs in EFP,


raidnet -1. specific channel set up for a raid for teams or team leaders to talk on



Ace Camp - 1. pretty ceratin is name for Primus Camp


pool,the - 1. where your unsaved xp goes when you die,to


mord - 1. unredeemed sanctuary boss in SL,Lord Mordeathen


clam or clammers - 1. derogotory name used by omni or neutrals for clan or clanners



ommer or ommmers- 1. name used by clan for omni



neut or neuts - 1. name used for neutrals

[Pysgod1978]

Kronilis - 1. General of Dust Brigade

Nirtox - 1. General of Dust Brigade

Vivyan - 1. General of Dust Brigade


DB - 1. Dust Brigade,known for violent attacks on various cities around Rubi-Ka.

[Snid]

RBP = Robust Backpack

I saw you had a "?" near it.

[Wizardkiss]

List updated. Thanks to all who contributed. Added or modified the following entries:


Ado - Adonis, the fourth playfield in Shadowlands

base - a Notum Wars tower site

beam - support beam, an atrox only 2hb weapon having the appearance of a large steal beam brandished for bashing with, beams are not used much any more but were once the de facto weapon for atrox enforcers

beast, the - the final boss (apparently) of the Shadowlands

blind - a hostile nano which causes a player's view of the game world to black out for it's duration, some blinds may also cause the player or mob it's cast upon to miss more

clam or clammers - derogatory name used by omni or neutrals for clan or clanners

crat suit - a back slot item available to crats only which has the appearance of a business suit

crunch -- a buff that reduces nano cost, most commonly gotten from NTs but MPs have a similar smaller buff

CT - control tower, the main tower of a a Notum Wars tower site, required before any other towers may be placed, when the CT is destroyed the base falls

delta - the speed your hit points or nano pool is refreshed

Eel- omni supply master in Avalon, a unique mob killed for armor he drops and also part of several quests

Ely - Elysium, a playfield in Shadowlands

EoT - Edge of Tarasque, very rare sword dropped by Tarasque

FG - feline grace, an often asked for agent's buff that raises agility

FUBAR - F**ked up beyond all recognition

gank - 1. attacking and killing a player far below one's level who has little or no chance of fighting back, although a legitimate tactic in mass combat, when done off the battlefield it is generally regarded as a cowardly and dishonorable act 2. to attack a player suddenly and unexpectedly doing enough damage before they realize what is happening to decide the outcome

gogo - Go! Go!, to be ordered to go quickly

HI - Hollow Island, high level outdoor encounter in DAV characterized by increasingly powerful "rings" of foes

HIW - Hollow Island Weed, one of two end bosses of Hollow Island

HQ - Omni-1 HQ

IDK - I don't know

imho - in my humble opinion

imo - in my opinion

Inf - Inferno, a high level playfield in Shadowlands with a hellish theme

IOR - Izgimmer's Obfuscated Recompiler, the highest NT nano cost reducer buff.

IS - Inner Sanctum, high level indoor dungeon that continues the theme of Temple of Three Winds

Ljotur - Ljotur the Lunatic, minor raid mob in DAV

LMAO: Laughing my ass off

mercs - mercenaries, a group of high level unique mobs lead by Ian Warr which are periodically spawned at the primus camp in Eastern Fouls Plains, place holders must be killed in order to spawn an NPC named Otacustes (a.k.a. Ota) who is given a letter obtained through a short quest and will in turn spawn the mercs, the mercs appear inside a stone ring in the camp and must be pulled to a large multi-team force waiting to take them down, they drop coveted azure armor among other things

mord - Lord Mordeathen, the unredeemed boss in Inferno killed for high level faction

named - mostly used in Shadowlands to refer to mobs similar to dyna bosses on RK, named mobs are significant in that they drop pocket boss patterns and other desirable loot, some named mobs have an actually name like "Joe" others just have a special title, like "Unhygienic Rafter"

Nas - Nascense, the lowest level playfield in Shadowlands

neut - name used for neutrals

NPC - non-player character, a character in the game that is not controlled by a player, NPCs differ from "mobs" in that NPCs are not usually hunted for xp but rather function as vendors, guards, part of a quest or to serve some other purpose.

OHQ - Omni-1 HQ

ommer - name used by clan for omni

Pan - Pandemonium, the final playfield in Shadowlands where The Beast resides

PB - pocket bosses

Pen - Penumbra, an arctic themed playfield in Shadowlands

pool - 1. the pool in Adonis is an underwater area you must pass through to reach the interior of the zone 2. a holding area where unsaved xp goes when you die, added to the game shortly before Shadowlands

PoP - 1. Pain of Patricia, a pistol which drops at mercs, once uber, now nerfed - 2. pop, when a mob suddenly spawns nearby creating a potentially dangerous situation (example: "careful, pop to the east")
queen - usually referring to the Den Mantis Queen of Smuggler's Den

raid - 1. a large multi-team effort to take down a difficult unique mob 2. an attack on a tower site

raidbot - 1. special chat bot set up to handle the chat needs of large multi-team raids

RBP - Robust Backpack

RoP - Reign of Patricia, an adventurer only pistol that drops at mercs normally dual wielded with a PoP

site - a Notum Wars tower site

smug - clan supply master in wailing wastes, a unique mob killed for armor he drops and also part of several quests

SNAFU - Situation Normal: All F**ked UP

SS 1. Superior Sentinel armor 2. Senior Subjugator, second "vortex" boss in Pandemonium, kill him opening portal to 3th island

TBM - The Brood Mother, one of two end bosses of Hollow Island

TL - title level, upon reaching a new title level skills you were previously unable to raise due to them being "title capped" will again be raisable, TL 1 = 1-14, TL 2 = 15-49, TL 3 = 50-99, TL 4 = 100-149, TL 5 = 150-189, TL 6 = 190-204, TL 7 = 205-220

TNH - The Night Heart, one of the guard bosses in pandemonium, located in second island

TSS - Timid Spectral Scourge, first "vortex" boss in Pandemonium, kill him opening portal to first island

u - you

unique 1. a mob of which there is only one of in the game, uniques are generally very hard to kill and drop uber loot 2. an item flag meaning the player may only have one of item in their inventory

warrnet - a raidbot used specifically for raids on mercs in EFP

weed - Hollow Island Weed, one of two end bosses of Hollow Island

zodiacs - 12 boss mobs in Pandemonium

[Satenia]

blackhole = bug in nano program execution / animation resulting in nano programs not being executed

fumble/fumbling = nano program execution error

imuo = in my unholy opinion

[Escritores]

CL - Computer Literacy (u got it allready just add computer literacy)
AFAIK - As Far As I Know

O and u got Blitz twice and u are missing a T in BBL says Be Back Layer, and COT is Council Of Truth not Council Of Tir, u also got CS twice, also got Ess/Essence twice, and HE twice...


Nice idea making this though way more detailed than the one FC got up and quite more uptodate ...

[Xephydes]

Originally posted by Snowglobe

mord - Lord Mordeathen, the unredeemed boss in Inferno killed for high level faction

He is called Lord Mordeth, Mordeathen is a TL7+ MP on RK2.

[newarival]

Sploit- somehow unfairly bending game mechanics to your advantage causing your charicter to be overpowered

Sploiter- Someone who Sploits, This word is usualy thrown around directly after someone loses in PvP

Example: "OMFG you are teh sploitiest sploiter evar, i sent a petition and you are going to get teh BANN for sure"

[azance]

Originally posted by Snowglobe
In Progress
HHAB - Hold Hell at Bay (Pandemonium protective gear)
LOTV - Lord of the Void - Nasty mofo mob in inferno
raidnet - Clan general raidbot, used for raiding uniques on RK (Eel, One, EFP other than mercs etc)
infonet - Clan botsystem for sending tells to massive amounts of ppl at once. "mercs up" "tara up in 10min, come crash GS" etcetc

[Avarael]

Blackhole: What happens when a nano (usually a nuke) is cast but then fails without any error messages or effects occuring.

(Side note: There's a LotV in northwest Nascence as well - or at least, there used to be).

[Wizardkiss]

Thanks for the contributions. I'll be updating the list again soon.

[Xephydes]

"Nano Delta - Nanocost modifier, an attribute of items."

This is incorrect, to clarify:

- nanocost modifier is the %-reduction of the nanocost of execution of nanoprograms. I.E: -50 % nanocost leads to a nanoprogram which normally requires 500 nano to cost now only requires 250 nano.

-nano delta: The amount of nano increase per "tick" (or call it a nano-over-time if you want), the "ticks" will go faster & faster the higher psychic skill you have. 50 nanodelta from items will give you 50 nano (+8 or whatever your base nanodelta is) every "tick", which at higher levels will be every 2ish seconds.
(Supposedly the *base* amount of nano delta depends on your amount of nanopool)


Might want to add "heal delta" when you're at it, same description as for nano delta, except that it adds the given number of hp every few secs, the regeneration of the "ticks" are dependant on how high your stamina is. (Supposedly the *base* amount of heal delta depends on your amount of body dev.)

[Xephydes]

"AE - the Aegan playfield on Rubi-Ka"

I know I'm picky, but it's called "Aegean"

[Xephydes]

To be picky again, "delta" isn't the speed your hp/nano regenerates, but the *amount*.

[EvilAsh]

Carebear is a negative term used by playerkillers in Asheron's Call to describe nonplayerkillers. I'm quite sure it refers to those peaceloving lil Carebears from TV.

You might add AC1 as an alternative for Asheron's Call. I know me and my friends use that terminology.

I can see that anybody mentions IIRC either. Which means If I Remember Correct(ly).

[Xhairs]

SNS or SNA; Self Nuker Society and Self Nuker Anonymous respectivly. As an NT, you are said to join this when you actualy manage to land a nuke on yourself.

[Xephydes]

BBL - be back layer

Tiny error there.

Nice growing list, but could still use those updates

[Wizardkiss]

List updated. Added or modified the following entries:


AC1 - another name for the original Asheron's Call

acom - a raidbot on Atlantean requiring level 165+ or being a doctor that can self cast CH, you have to talk to an acom leader to get invited

AE - the Aegean playfield on Rubi-Ka

AFAIK - As Far As I Know

BBL - be back later

BF - 1. the Belial Forest playfield on Rubi-Ka 2. may also mean "boyfriend"

Blackhole - What happens when a nano (usually a nuke) is cast but then fails without any error messages or effects occurring

carebear - derogatory term for game mechanics which create more "safe" types of environments where players are protected from being ganked and other unpleasantness, the term originates from a children's TV show

CDR - Customized IMI Desert Reet 1000, a nice pistol which drops from the Lab Director in Foreman's dungeon

CI - composite Infuses, a Shadowlands nano which casts all 6 Infuses at once with a duration of 4 hours

CL - Computer Literacy (u got it already just add computer literacy)

CM - 1. composite Mochams, a Shadowlands nano which casts all 6 Mochams at once 2. in low levels refers to composite Masteries

CoT - Council Of Truth, part of the AO backstory

CS twice

delta - the amount of increase per "tick" to the health or nano pool, the speed of regeneration is determined by the amount of psychic skill for nano pool and stamina for hit points

EP - Extreme Prejudice, an engineer nano formula which buffs pistol and grenade +120

Ess/Essence twice

ETA - estimated time of arrival

FOTM - flavor of the month, refers to the tendency among players to adopt the latest uber weapon rather than choosing a single weapon type to stick with throughout their career

fumble - nano program execution error

GE - Gamma Ejector, a nice low level SMG weapon which drops in Foreman's dungeon

GF - girlfriend

GoT - the Guardian of Tomorrow, a large robotic dog mob in TotW

greenies - most commonly refers to ARK controlled roleplay event characters whose names appear in green

GTA - Guardian Tank Armor

HE twice

HHAB - Hold Hell at Bay - a ring required to survive in the Pandemonium zone, also provides a large amount of Nano Resist

IIRC - if I recall correctly

Infonet - a Clan bot system on Rimor limited to high level players for sending raid announcements to massive amounts of people at once

JOTR - Joy of the Race, a rare and very expensive rifle

LOS - line of sight

LOTV - Lord of the Void, large and very powerful multi-headed dragon mobs found in some of the Shadowlands playfields, they drop nothing of interest and have no known purpose

MEP - Solar-Powered Master Engineer Pistol, a complex tradeskill improved version of the engineer solar starter pistol

mord - Lord Mordeth, the unredeemed boss in Inferno killed for high level faction

nanocost modifier - the percentage reduction of the nanocost of execution of nanoprograms (example: -50% nanocost leads to a nanoprogram which normally requires 500 nano to cost now only requires 250 nano)

OSB - outside buffs, buffs cast on you by others

PC - 1. player character, a character controlled by a customer of the game 2. a general computing term for an IBM-PC compatible computer 3. politically correct

phear - fear

PL - power level, to level very rapidly, usually with the assistance of a high level player healing or pulling

POI - point of interest

pron - porn or pornography, a misspelling which has become a deliberate part of gamespeak

Raidnet - a Clan general purpose raidbot on Rimor, used for raiding uniques on RK (other than mercs)

raidsnet - a general purpose raidbot on Atlantean

RI - Reduce Inertia, an MA evades buff raising all 3 evades +120

soz - means "I'm sorry"

sploit - exploit, taking advantage of bugs to bend game mechanics to your advantage, doing this is against the rules of the game

TLC - 1. trivial loot code, a feature tried and abandoned by Everquest which attempted to curtail high levels farming from low level mobs by removing "trivial" drops from the loot if the killing player was too high, AO has a trivial loot code which was installed in the November 6th 2003 patch but it is unclear what if anything it removes 2. may also mean tender loving care, a nice thing

U got Blitz twice

Vanya - The unredeemed boss of the Penumbra playfield, significant as a source of high level faction



I've never heard IMUO, SNS or SNA used ingame nor do I find any references to them on the boards (other than Satenia's posts) so leaving those out for now as I'm not sure they're really terms in common use

[Acardia]

ubah post. i was looking for TBH or THB people use that in chat and i'm like WTF.