A few years old, but covers most things.
o7 – Commander salute
Elite Dangerous Acronyms(My humble attempt at a UEDAG lol)
84 - 1984 - year when original Elite was released; also “Class of 84” - players of the original game)
ADS - Advanced Discovery Scanner (All the System)
AFAIK - As far as I know
AFM - Automatic field Maintenance
AI - Artificial intelligence (Non Human intelligence)
API - Application Program Interface
AU - Astronomical Unit (distance Earth to Sun aka 149,597,870,700 meters)
AW - Ammonia world
BBC/Beeb -Refers to the BBC Micro computer that the original 1980's Elite ran on
BDS - Basic Discovery Scanner (500 LS)
BGS/ - Background Simulation
BH - Black hole
Binding - Mapping a key to a specific role
Breadbin - 1990s/2000s nickname to DB
BSR - Brave Sir Robin (jumping or frameshifting away from a fight)
Buff - Improve/strengthen
c - The speed of light; used in super cruise speed read outs (e.g. 0.11c, 25.6c)
CBE/COBE - Commander of the Order of the British Empire
CC - Command Capital
CG - Community Goal
Clean - wanted status (in that jurisdiction)
CMDR - Commander
Conda - Anaconda abbreviation
CTD - Crash To Desktop (The game crashes, raise a ticket commander!)
CQC - Close Quarter Combat or Championship
Cx - Class X of weapons. X that can be 1,2,3 etc.
CxF - Class X Fixed of weapons. X that can be 1,2,3 etc.
CZ - Combat or Conflict Zone
DB - David Braben - creator ED & co-author original Elite
DBE/DBX - Diamondback Explorer
DBOBE - David Braben Officer of the Order of the British Empire
DBS - Diamondback Scout
DDA - Design Discussion Archive (Seehttps://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=36)
DDF - Design Discussion Forum (Forum for game design discussions)
Devs/FDevs - Frontier Developments PLC or staff at Frontier
Diso - a system in the old worlds (famous for being in the earlier games)
Disco Scanner - Discovery Scanner (Basic, Intermediate or Advanced)
Dockered - landing pad reassigned
DPS - Damage per second
DSS - Detailed surface scanner (used during exploration)
ED - Elite Dangerous
Elite 4 - Specualted name for ED since 1990s
ELP - Earth like planet
ELW - Earth like world
EMP - Electromagnetic pulse (EMP interference is generally disruptive or damaging to electronic equipment - UP's can disable your entire ship for a number of seconds)
FA - Flight assist.(When switched on your ship will fly like a plane on planet Earth)
FAO - Flight assist off. (Your ship will fly like a ship in space, each thruster acts separately)
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions (Really?)
FD - Frontier Developments (Founded by DB to continue development of Elite)
FDL - Fer-de-lance
FE2 - Frontier Elite 2
FEF - Fantastic Elite Fiction
FFE - Frontier First Encounters
Freeagle - The free eagle Mercenary Edition owners receive in game
FOV/FoV - Field of view
Fracking - Flight rig assist constant kinetics (my attempt at rapid FA on/off adjustments)lol
FSD - Frame Shift Drive (engine used for super cruising)
FTL - Faster Than Light (To go faster than the speed of light) >671 million miles per hour
Game Modes - Solo, open, or group
GPP - Game Preview Program (for Xbox One)
Griefed - NPC shot me in CZ
GUI - Graphical User Interface
HD - High definition
HH - Happy Hello (to say an even friendlier hello than a wing waggle by opening your
cargo scoop at someone.)
HOTAS - Hands on throttle and stick (joystick and throttle controls set-up)
HUD - Heads Up Display (Graphic like your target recital for example)
IDS - Intermediate Discovery Scanner (1,000 LS)
IMO - In my opinion
IMHO - In my humble opinion
Interdict -Intercept/stop - describes when another ship pulls you out of super cruise
Ironman - A derivative game where a player must delete their save on character death.
Jonty - perform some sort of upgrade
Kylie - 1000/kilo light year
KLY - Kilo-lightyear
KM or K/M - Keyboard & Mouse controls, sometimes used as Km
Km - Kilometer - 1,000 meters
KWS - Kill warrant scanner
LHH - Last Homely Home
LS - distance Light travels in one second or Light Speed (299,792.458km)
LY - distance light travels in one year (9.4605284 × 1012km)
m - meter smallest unit of measure in ED
MBE - Member of the Order of the British Empire
Mm -Megameter - 1,000,000 meters
MMO - Massively Multiplayer Online (game played online with by humans at the same time)
Mobius - Most populated group in ED
NAV Beacon - A waypoint near a sun in core space
Nebula - A cloud of gas and dust located in outer space
Nerf - To weaken or reduce effectiveness
Noob - New and / or inexperienced player
NPC - non player character
OBE - Officer in the Order of the British Empire or Order of the British Empire
OO- Obsidian Orbital
OP - Original Post (person or entry) OR Over-powered
OTOH - On the other hand
Parsec - 3.26 light years
PB - Premium Beta
PB1 - Premium Beta 1
PB2 - Premium Beta 2
PBF - Private (or Players) Backers forum
PC - player character
Permit - Authorization to visit a specific, and otherwise restricted, system
PG - Private group or Procedural generation (way to create game content algorithmically)
Pip - unit of power to distribute to your systems
POV/PoV - Point of view
PP - Powerplay (1.3 release)
PvE - Player vs. Environment
PvP - Player vs. Player
PWF - Player Writer Forum (hidden from almost everyone)
PwP - Player WITH Player (ultimate antidote to PvP)
RES/RSS - Resouce extraction site (May be high or low intensity)
RNG - Random number generator
Sag A*/Sgr A* - Sagittarius A* (Pronounced Sagittarius A star)
SCB - Shield Cell Bank
SB - Shield Booster or Standard Beta
SC - Super cruise (FTL made possible by warping space around your ship)
Sidey - Sidewinder
Slopey - Forum moderator and author of BPC Market tool.
(Seehttps://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76081)
SMBH - Super massive black hole
SOL - The name of both our sun and our solar system
SP - Single player
SRV - Surface Recon Vehicle
SSS - Strong signal source
Toast Rack - The metal frame work around the entrance to a station.
T6 - Type-6 Transport
T7 - Type-7 Transport
T9 - Type-9 Heavy Transport
TC/TFC - Terraformable candidate
Thargoid - Alien race expected in a future release
Thrudds - Reference to a third party on-line trade tool. (Seehttp://elitetradingtool.co.uk/)
TLDR - Too long, didn’t read (reply to long post or if OP too long summarize in TLDR area)
UA - Unknown Artefact (Alien tech, scans your ship and causes damage if carried without cargo hold upgrade)
UEDAG - Ultimate Elite Dangerous Acronym Guide (this is my attempt lol)
UI - User Interface (panels)
UP - Unknown Probe (Alien Tech, using a discovery scanner causes probe to EMP your ship which lasts around 10 seconds)
USS - Unidentified signal source
VA - Voice Attack. (A way of controlling your ship through spoken commands.)
VR - Virtual reality
Wanted - An outstanding bounty is attached to the player in question
Witchspace - The tunnel of hyperspace in which you travel between stars
Wings - (1.2 release)
WSS - Weak signal source
WW - Water world
WWag - Wing Waggle (Tipping wings up and down a few times to wave hello)
WZ - War zone (see CZ)
YT - YouTube
