Proposal Discussion ELT TxT Spk Dictionary

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
I was thinking about the com system and how its a bit of a pain right now, i got to thinking that as a lot of the chat is more than likely going to take place via text chat it might be an idea for us to develop a pilots universal shorthand, a sort of Elite dangerous version of Text speak.

here are some of the ideas i've come up with so far, feel free to suggest your own and we will get a dictionary of terms going :D

OOFPA - Out Of Fuel Please Assist

NHUA - Need Help Under Attack

SYIP - See You In Port

NS - Nice Ship

C-NS (Combat) Nice Shot/Shooting

USS9-DTNS - Unidentified Signal Source at 9 o'clock, Dropping To Normal Space.

SND - Stand and deliver (used when pirating.)

WTC - Wanna trade cargo? (In space bartering)

XsYh - Percentage integrity of shields and hull when reporting status. 100s100h best. 0s2h is time to bug out.

FF - Federal Fighter.

Conda - Anaconda.

Cow - Lakon T9.

Calf - Lakon T6.

with the use of modifiers like C- for combat related chat we could build quite a complex language just using a few letters, and as long as you know what those letters stand for in your language it can sort of become an international form of in game communication.

as more get added i'll start dividing them up into sections for ease of reference, over to you for your suggestions

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W4rSkuLL

W4rSkuLL
Great ideas. :) Dont know if I can remember those though. Its hard to write on keyboard when your hands are all over the throttle and stick. And using track ir makes you very stationary so grabbing the keyboard is often a challenge. Well if you have the keyboard on your lap it shouldnt be a problem.
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
W4rSkuLL said:
Great ideas. :) Dont know if I can remember those though. Its hard to write on keyboard when your hands are all over the throttle and stick. And using track ir makes you very stationary so grabbing the keyboard is often a challenge. Well if you have the keyboard on your lap it shouldnt be a problem.
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Thanks, the idea is once we have enough to make it worth the effort they'll be formatted to make a nice quick reference sheet for printing, that should help with remembering them :)
 

Ascyltos

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SND - Stand and deliver (used when pirating.)

WTC - Wanna trade cargo? (In space bartering)

XsYh - Percentage integrity of shields and hull when reporting status. 100s100h best. 0s2h is time to bug out.

FF - Federal Fighter.

Conda - Obvious.

Cow - Lakon T9.

Calf - Lakon T6.

BOHICA - You all know what this means. Use appropriately. "Damn more jellyfish inbound, & me @ 0s2h. BOHICA."
 
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Nagual

Nagual
Patrick_68000 said:
"Soon(™)", should be incorporated in the dictionary of the commanders, and would be internationally recognized, no doubt
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Indeed, as it has been used by beta testers for as long as I can remember. Sony and Star Wars Galaxy were even more fond of the word than Michael Brookes is.
 

shrinkshooter

shrinkshooter
Like to offer some constructive criticism here: acronyms are there to speed things up and generate complex thoughts with little input needed. Regarding that, we have two, I guess "issues" with this thread, which are 1) common abbreviations from the video game community (and likely the MMO ones) would rise above any less-known language, and 2) one must separate what makes sense as a video game abbreviation and at which point someone is just really trying hard to invent something that simply sounds cool.

AndyB(EDB50) said:
NS - Nice Ship
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The first three suggestions are fine by me (I mean would could make OOFPA NFPA, but that's no big deal) but NS in video game parlance is, pretty ubiquitously, "nice shot." Unless players are really looking up terms beforehand, saying NS to any average player is going to get them confused for a second.

USS9-DTNS - Unidentified Signal Source at 9 o'clock, Dropping To Normal Space.
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So this kind of falls under my #2 critique as seen above. For one thing, your "nine o clock" means nothing to anyone else, and for another, this could be shortened quite a bit. Just use US or SS for unidentified signal, or signal source; and just use DO for dropping out. That's 8 characters there (not including the hyphen) that no one would want to use as standardized communication.

I'm sure at some point in this hypothetical future it would be understood that S meant signal in this context, and people would just start saying SDO.

Ascyltos said:
SND - Stand and deliver (used when pirating.)
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Again, SND is mostly known in the VG community as "search and destroy." That could easily be adopted in this game for the purposes of bounty hunters, but using SND as a threat would confuse anyone who didn't already take the time to read up on the terminology culture of one game.

As another example, you don't want to try saying PLS, for instance, as a stand in for, oh, I don't know, "pulse laser ship" or "setup" or whatever, because everyone and their mom knows it's shorthand for "please."

WTC - Wanna trade cargo? (In space bartering)
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I personally hope this doesn't become a thing, and you only have to have ever stood in a main social hub of any MMO to understand why. But if it WERE to become a thing, the general structure is WTS for "want to sell," WTB for "want to buy," and WTT X for Y, for "want to trade."

XsYh - Percentage integrity of shields and hull when reporting status. 100s100h best. 0s2h is time to bug out.
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And again this could simply be shortened to 100/100. To anyone who knows what the heck we're talking about, the s and h are completely unnecessary, and to those who don't, those letters hardly help, and once they know they don't need to see them there anymore.
 

Defacto

Defacto
If you want some more identifiable alternative to 'SND' I suggest:
- Yarr!
No one can misinterpret that :D
Also:
- Can
- EiGaPN,MSaS
Meaning
(Eranin is glorious and proud nation, most splendid among stars)
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
shrinkshooter said:
Like to offer some constructive criticism here
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nice to see that phrase followed by some constructive criticism for a change :D

not being an MMO players i was unaware of existing terms but it only makes sense to incorporate them - why reinvent the wheel?

i think a good idea is just to 'fill in the gaps' of the existing MMO shorthand with a few ED specific terms.

this page should give us a good list to work from: http://mmoterms.com/full-mmorpg-terms-glossary
 

hawkenfox

hawkenfox
Will definitely learn a few to read those who type ... I still prefer team speak or just comms in game so much more efficient. ;)
 
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