Tuesday 2 February 2010

EVE Online Nomenclature

Well there are so many abbreviations that I thought I might try an attempt to get as many in one place as possible.  Here goes (if there are any missing then please comment and I will add them).


Ship Type
AF/AS: Assault Ship
BC: BattleCruiser

BS: Battleship
Covops: Covert Ops Frigate
CS/CBS: Command Ship/Battle Cruiser
DN/Dread: Dreadnought
HAC/HAS: Heavy Assault Ship
HIC/Hictor: Heavy Interdictor

Indy: Industrial
Inty/Ceptor: Interceptor
SC: Supercarrier

SB/Bomber: Stealth Bomber


Ship Name
Aba/Abad: Abaddon (BS)
Apoc: Apocalypse (BS)
Arbi: Arbitrator (cruiser)
Arma/Geddon: Armageddon (BS)
BB: Blackbird (cruiser)
Beagle: Eagle (HAC when fitted with blasters)
Bessie/Stower: Bestower (industrial)
Blasterthron: Blaster equiped mega
Cane: Hurricane (BC)
Cerb: Cerberus (HAC)
Cursus: Incursus (frig)
Cyc: Cyclone (cruiser)
Dom/Domi: Dominix (BS)
Harbi: Harbinger (BC)
Itty #: Iteron Mark # (industrial)
Lach: Lachesis (recon cruiser)
Jag: Jaguar (AF)
Kessie: Kestrel (frig)
Mach: Machariel (Faction BS)

Mack: Mackinaw (exhumer)
Mal/Male/Diction: Malediction (inty)
Manti: Manticore (bomber)
Meal: Mealstrom (BS)
Mega/Thron: Megathron (BS)
Moonin: Munin (HIC)
Myrm: Myrmidon (BC)
NH: Nighthawk (CS)
Phoon: Typhoon (BS)
Pilg: Pilgrim (recon cruiser)
Prohp: Prohpecy (BC)
Pun: Punnisher (frig)
Ranis: Taranis (inty)
Rax: Thorax (cruiser)
Ret/Retri: Retribution (AF)
Ret: Retriever (mining barge)
Rox: Ferox
Ruppy: Rupture (cruiser)

Sac: Sacrilege (HAC)
Sader: Crusader (inty)
Scorp: Scorpion (BS)

Sleip: Sleipnir (CS)
Temp/Pest/Test: Tempest (BS)
Vaga: Vabagond (HAC)
Varg: Vargur (Marauder)

Vindi: Vindicator (Faction BS)


Combat, Warfare and Locations
0.0: lawless/null space (outside of empire and lowsec)
Aggro: Attract aggreviation (damage) from all NPCs or opponents.
Bleeder: A pvp setup designed to outlast your enemy
Blob: Large fleet of ships
Bubble: Interdictor Warp Disrupt Probe or Mobile Warp Disruptor.
Camp: A gatecamp.
FC: Fleet commander
Gank: The amount of damage a ship is set up to do. Can also refer to getting "ganked", or killed.
Lvl4: Level 4 missioin tested
Mission Ops: Mission running, see PVE/NPC/Ratting (lots of similarities)
NPC: Non-Player Character (see PVE)

P
odded: Losing pod. Usually to be avoided at all costs.



Popped: Ship is destroyed.


PVE: Player vs Environment


PVP: Player vs Player
Rat: Pirate NPCs
Ratting: see PVE/NPC
Solo: solo PVP, usually self sufficient with ability to tank, gank, and tackle

Spawn: a group of NPCs, or the act of a group of NPCs appearing
Speed tank/Kiting: The ability to avoid damage through speed.

Tackle/Tackler: To Warp Scramble/Disrupt/Web a target.  Often used to describe ship setup.
Tank: The amount of damage a ship is set up to absorb.  Also refers to character who will take all damage.



Core Fittings
CPR: Capacitor Power Relay
CPU: Co-Processor
MAPC: Micro Auxiliary Power Core
PDU: Power Diagnostic System
RCU: Reactor Control Unit



Weapons
AC: Autocannon

Arti: Artillery
BCU: Ballistic Control System
DD: Doomsday
DLB: Dual Light Beam Lasers
DLP: Dual Light Pulse Lasers

GS: Gyrostabilier
Howi: Howitzer

HS: HeatsinkMag Stab/MFS: Magnetic Field Stabilizer (also MFS)
MPL: Medium Pulse LaserSB/Smarty: Smartbomb


Electronic Warfare
Damp: Remote Sensor Dampener
Distruptor/TD: Tracking Disruptor
Neut: Energy Neutralizer
Nos: Nosferatu

Point:  Warp Distruptor
SB: Sensor Booster

Scram/Jammer: Warp Scrambler
TP/Painter: Target Painter
Web: Stasis Webifier


Propulsion
AB: Afterburner

Istab: Inertia Stabilizers
MWD: Microwarp Drive
Nano: Nanofiber Internal Structure

OD: Overdrive Injector System
WCS/Stabs: Warp Core Stabilizer


Rigs
CCC: Capacitor Control Circuit
Poly: Polycarbon Engine Housing



Armour
50-1600mm: (mm) Reinforced Plates (differing materials)

ARU: Armor Repair Unit
EANM: Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Hardener: Armour or Shield hardener, both active and passive
SAR/MAR/LAR: [Size] Armor Repairer


Shields
Extender: [Size] Shield Extender

Hardener: Shield or Armour hardener, both active and passive
SB: Shield Booster
SPR: Shield Power Relays


Factions
DB: Dark Blood
DG/Dread: Dread Guristas
Dom: Angel Cartel (Domination)
Gal: Gallente

Gist: Angel Cartel
Min:  Minmatar
SS: Shadow Serpentis
TS: True Sansha

Item Quality
Faction: A rare faction named version of T1 items

Named: Usually best named variant of Tech 1 item
Officer: The rarest and most expensive mods, dropped by very rare officer rats.
Plex/Complex/Deadspace: An even rarer subfaction type of item, dropped by rats inside complexes.
T1: Tech 1
T2: Tech 2

T3: Tech 3



Location
Plex: Complex or deadspace location in space where NPCs are located.



Forum / Conversations
Bbl: Be back later

Lol: Laugh out loud
OP: Original Poster
Pwned: Owned

QFT: Quoted for truth


Communications
Vent: Ventrilo voice communication software
TS: TeamSpeak voice communication software
Eve Voice: In game comms software

Minerals
Trit: Tritanium
Pyer: Pyrerite
Mex: Mexallon
Iso: Isogen
Nox: Nocxium
Zyd: Zydrine
Mega: Megacyte
Morph: Morphite


Other Items

BM: Bookmark
Cyno: Cynosural Field, generated by ships to be used by some Capital ships for jumping
Deepsafe: A safespot which is very hard to scan out, due to being more than 5AU from all objects
Instaundock: A SS that allows for near instant warp after undocking.

KOS: Kill on Sight
Logoffski: Logging off to avoid being killed.
NBSI: Not Blue Shoot It

NRDS: Not Red Don't Shoot
OP: Outpost

Plex: Pilots extension license providing 30 days of game play.
POS: Player Owned Structure
SS/Safe: Safespot (spot in space that's not directly in line with any 2 objects)

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