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Krash

Krash
Three Letter Acronyms list for the ED universe. Help me build this list for noobs that don't know what is being said around here half the time(of which I consider myself a member):

NPC- non player character
PvE - player vs environment. Why not PvN I dunno
PvP - player vs punks - thank you captain obvious
BGS - background simulation?
PP - power play. I know we need a third letter for some of these
PP - power plant - depends on the context
MC - multi cannon
BH - bounty hunting
CG - community goal
CZ - conflict zone
Haz - hazardous
Res - resource. Not acronyms but used a lot to refer to hazardous resource extraction sites found in the rings of gas giants
KWS - kill warrant scanner
FGS - federal gunship
FAS - federal assault ship
SLF - Ship launched fighter? The tiny ship you get to launch from the hangar bay.

Sorry the list is messy and not alphabetical. Compiled this on my phone ad hoc (PAH)
 

777Driver

777Driver
Mahossive list here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/26642-The-Elite-Dangerous-Acronym-Guide

Still missing a bunch of newer stuff, like HRP,MRP, G1-5 etc


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
 
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Bryan K

Bryan K
Krash said:
Three Letter Acronyms list for the ED universe. Help me build this list for noobs that don't know what is being said around here half the time(of which I consider myself a member):

NPC- non player character
PvE - player vs environment. Why not PvN I dunno
PvP - player vs punks - thank you captain obvious
BGS - background simulation?
PP - power play. I know we need a third letter for some of these
PP - power plant - depends on the context
MC - multi cannon
BH - bounty hunting
CG - community goal
CZ - conflict zone
Haz - hazardous
Res - resource. Not acronyms but used a lot to refer to hazardous resource extraction sites found in the rings of gas giants
KWS - kill warrant scanner
FGS - federal gunship
FAS - federal assault ship
SLF - Ship launched fighter? The tiny ship you get to launch from the hangar bay.

Sorry the list is messy and not alphabetical. Compiled this on my phone ad hoc (PAH)
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Actually, RES stands for Resource Extraction Site.

Others to include:
FdL - Fer-de-Lance
FDS - Federal Dropship
POI - Point of Interest (blue circles on radar)
AX - Anti-Xeno
FA - Flight Assist
PA - Plasma Accelerator
 
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Krash

Krash
777Driver said:
Mahossive list here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/26642-The-Elite-Dangerous-Acronym-Guide

Still missing a bunch of newer stuff, like HRP,MRP, G1-5 etc


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
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Thanks!
 

EvoBeardy

EvoBeardy
Bryan K said:
Actually, RES stands for Resource Extraction Site.
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I actually thought it was quite funny OP put that, and then included the term "Resource Extraction Site" following it. :D
Easily missed though!

@OP: People will also refer to these as REZ - Resource Extraction Zone (HazRES/Z, LoRES/Z, HiRES/Z etc).

You've also got to be aware of acronyms of weapons like the APA (Advanced Plasma Accelerator), so as long as you know the names of things and the context of what's being spoken about is clear, you should be able to get what it is.

Also C or S prefixing or suffixing a number is referring to internal module sizing.
So a C3 or S3 would be Class/Size 3.
Sometimes people will say that to cover just the size and not the grade (A-E) [Edit- purposefully not including H class for current obvious reasons].

SDC - Smiling Dog Crew. A renowned group of players that actively pursued to greet other players with friendly attitudes. Think Reddit/aww. (currently at issues due to internal conflicts FWIH)
 
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OfftheRails

OfftheRails
Krash said:
BGS - background simulation?
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Correct. Might I also venture to suggest

PPP - Palladium, Platinum, Painite (Praesodymium?)
- Felicity Farseer
DSS - Detailed Surface Scanner
SRV - Surface Recon Vehicle
FSD - Friendship Drive
ECM - Electronic Countermeasures
FD - Frontier Developments
BBS - mission board (80s terms die hard)
SC - Supercruise
 

Krash

Krash
EvoBeardy said:
I actually thought it was quite funny OP put that, and then included the term "Resource Extraction Site" following it. :D
Easily missed though!

@OP: People will also refer to these as REZ - Resource Extraction Zone (HazRES/Z, LoRES/Z, HiRES/Z etc).

You've also got to be aware of acronyms of weapons like the APA (Advanced Plasma Accelerator), so as long as you know the names of things and the context of what's being spoken about is clear, you should be able to get what it is.

Also C or S prefixing or suffixing a number is referring to internal module sizing.
So a C3 or S3 would be Class/Size 3.
Sometimes people will say that to cover just the size and not the grade (A-E) [Edit- purposefully not including H class for current obvious reasons].

SDC - Smiling Dog Crew. A renowned group of players that actively pursued to greet other players with friendly attitudes. Think Reddit/aww. (currently at issues due to internal conflicts FWIH)
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Helpful info here, thanks. APA has been driving me nuts.
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
In addition to the TLA's, there are also a number of creative expressions that are unique to Elite. Here are a few of my more popular ones:

Super-Snooze : To fall asleep in super-crusie and fly well past where you were going.
Exsnoring : To fall asleep while exploring and wake up with no idea where you are or what you were scanning.

The Cosby Maneuver : To slip into a station's mail slot without requesting permission and slip back out without incurring a trespass fine.

Imperial Cheerleader : Imperial Clipper. They're pretty and the go down easy.

Imperial Clutter : Imperial Cutters, especially when massing at a CG station. Most are shieldless, many unarmed, and they're full of tasty cargo.

Picasimus Maneuver : Orcas and Belugas that could not find the hole (mail slot) if there were hair around it. They end up pressed against the inside of the station until blasted by station turrets. Also said of players who, for whatever reason, often alcohol-induced, end up in a similar position.
 

Spaceman Si

Spaceman Si
I can't see SLF without hearing "Alternative Ulster" in my head.

(For quite a while in my younger days when there was no google or any easy way of looking things like this up, I was sure the lyrics were "There's a pale lobster". )
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Spaceman Si said:
I can't see SLF without hearing "Alternative Ulster" in my head.

(For quite a while in my younger days when there was no google or any easy way of looking things like this up, I was sure the lyrics were "There's a pale lobster". )
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"'scuse me, while I kiss this guy." - not Jimmy Hendrix

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And let's not forget the most important TLA of the lot:


TLA : Too Long Anyways, said of wall-of-text posts that people around here get all worked up about when someone doesn't read in their entirety because they're TLA.
 
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