Acronyms and Slang
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| AA | Anti-Air |
| AI | Anti-Infantry (Anti-Personnel) |
| AOE | Area of Effect |
| AV | Anti-Vehicle (Anti-Tank, Anti-Vehicular, Anti-Transport) |
| Airterm | Air Vehicle Terminal |
| Backhacking | A strategy in 2 varieties - "Backhacking" usually describes hacking a base with the defending force staying guard and "ghosthacking" represents a hack that has no defense force on it. |
| Bacon is served | Spawn Beacon has been deployed. |
| Bang Bus | Sunderer |
| Barney | A Vanu Sovereignty fighter – So named for the purple color scheme of their armor |
| Boomer | A controlled explosive - a sticky explosive box that has a remote trigger - Used on door frames and corners as booby traps, now known as C4 |
| BR | Battle Rank |
| Bus | Sunderer |
| Cap | Either to capture a base or the control point of a base. |
| CC | Control Console (Control Node) |
| Cert | Certification Point |
| Common Pool | A piece of equipment useable by all three Empires (opposite of Empire Specific (ES)) |
| Clegged | To bungle something. In reference to screenshot where developer Adam Clegg put a Galaxy in a precarious position.[1][2] |
| Cloaker | Infiltrator - A player using stealth armor |
| CoF | Cone of Fire |
| CQC | Close Quarters Combat |
| ES | Empire Specific |
| Esa | Esamir |
| Elmo | A Terran Republic Fighter – So called for the red color scheme of their armor |
| Engy/Engie | An Engineer class player |
| ESF | Empire-Specific Fighter, referring to the Reaver, Mosquito, and Scythe |
| Flag | Control Console (Control Node) |
| Fun Bus | Sunderer |
| Gal | Galaxy |
| Ghosting | Capturing a continent with small to no resistance |
| HA | Heavy Assault |
| JH | Jackhammer |
| Mag | Magrider |
| Magic Missile | Lock On missiles |
| Magmower | A Vanu Sovereignty empire specific hover tank properly called the Magrider, and commonly called the Magmower because of its incredible maneuverability that gives it exceptional strength at running over and killing friendly troops, and occasionally enemy troops too. |
| MAX Crash | A strategy of an amassed MAX push |
| MBT | Main Battle Tank, referring to the Vanguard, Prowler, and Magrider |
| MCG | Mini Chaingun |
| Mossie | Mosquito A TR light air superiority fighter craft |
| Murder | used to describe a large flight of combat aircraft. Presumably named after a “Murder of Crows” |
| NC | New Conglomerate |
| NS | Nanite Systems |
| OL | Outfit Leader |
| OP | Overpowered |
| OS | Orbital Strike |
| Pancake | A Tank Mine |
| PL | Platoon Leader |
| Resec | To re-secure a hacked base |
| RoF | Rate of Fire |
| Smurf | A New Conglomerate fighter – So called for the Blue color scheme of their armor |
| SL | Squad Leader |
| Softy | Any non-MAX infantry unit |
| Squishy | Any non-MAX infantry unit |
| Sundy/ Sundae/ Thunderer | Sunderer |
| Sugar-box | Ammo unit on the ground for Infantry and MAX units that take down Air |
| Threeway | A conflict with all three sides participating. |
| TR | Terran Republic |
| UP | Under powered |
| V-term | Vehicle terminal |
| Van/Vanny/Vannie | Vanguard |
| VS | Vanu Sovereignty |
| Warping | 2 meanings: 1. Also known as ADADADADAD, strafing with bad connection resulting in irrational character movement, dictated by the imperfect netcode. 2. Teleporting to another continent. |
| WG | Warpgate |
| WP | Waypoint, often Squad Waypoint. |
| Zerg | The collection fighting units that appear unorganized, yet successfully attack facilities due to sheer numbers |
| Whoring | Activity solely meant for racking up kills and points using an easy method |
