Title: Spacey Odyssey abbreviations and basic trems used Post by: Gunfighter Frank on February 19, 2007, 04:02:04 AM This is to help new people learn what the normal Space Odyssey abbrevations stand for. If you can think of others please PM me so I may add them, and please lets keep them to the most commonly seen.
SO is a common referance to the game Space Odyssey TOS is a common referance to Terms of Service BH is common for Black Hole encounter GT is common for Gold Transport encounter EP is common for Endangered Planet encounter SN is common for Super Nova encoutner AC is common for Ancient Commander encounter Bio is common for Bio experiment encounter DL is common to describe a Derlictmother ship MS is common to describe a mothership missions Gal M or G C is common to describe galaxy missions or Encryption missions SAB is a common to describe Secrect Astroid Base BL is common referance to the Bounty list TH is a common referance to the Teufel Hunden alliance AL is a common referance to the Aeternal Light alliance AOF is a common refrance to the Annihilation of Faith alliance FA is a common referance to the Forgotten Ancients alliance SD is a common referance to the Skums Dump alliance DDD is a common referance to the Dooms Day Defenders alliance ddd is a common referance to the Doom Day defense alliance ML is a common referance to the Murphy's Law alliance NAW is a common referance to the New Age Warriors alliance UEA is a common referance to United Earth Alliance Reborn alliance ABS Is a common referance to absorb power or Sheild strength Acc or ACU is common referance to accuracy HP is common for Hitpoints A is common for attack power D is common for Defense power it is also common to request the A/ D/ HP ratio of a ship which is most of the time stated as 1:0.10:2 or some such number much of the time it is only A/ HP that is requested stated as 1:2 commonly neb a common term to describe the protective nebula PShip a common term to describe a small cheap heavy armed ship designed to give massive amounts of power for its size and cost but designed to die at first contact in order to protect the mother ship and mission ships by causing you to go into a protective neb Swarmers - Cheap ships with HP and high attack, mostly around 2500 to 5000. Used to kill strong ships. Pswarmer - Almost the same a Pships but have low HP instead of none and slight amount of ABS and ACU (around 10% or so) . Tinyman - (obselete) Ship with 3/4/5 space and systems that cost around a mill or more each. So create a very expensive ships that gets an enormous swarm bonus. Missionsships/ Strong Ships/ Main Ship/ Tanks/ Super Ships - The ships you do missions with and stuff, that are not a swarm ship these ships are designed to stand alone in a fleet. These listed alliances are those that have been around for a long time or have gained much recognition lately. please dont get upset if I have not mentioned your alliance name here, and if you have more please PM me so I may add them here and other suggestions for this post. and Thanks to Malice for proof reading this post Thanks basill for additional definitions |