https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... er_playersMr_StephenB wrote:Some acronyms for newer players.
Been seeing a lot of newer players around so here are some acronyms that get used a lot around here.
"CIG" (Cloud Imperium Games) Sometimes also called "CI" (Cloud Imperium) These are the developers who are making Star Citizen and Squadron 42.
"SC" (Star Citizen) is the massive multiplayer persistent universe, when you buy a game package, this is what you get.
"SQ42" (Squadron 42) is the single player cinematic campaign. It is not part of the game package, you need to buy it in addition to your game package for Star Citizen.
"PU" (Persistent Universe) is what you play on with other people in Star Citizen. Right now it's servers of about 100 players, but the goal is thousands of players in shards run by multiple game servers seamlessly.
"LIVE" is referring to the Live Servers (the current build) of Star Citizen for the Persistent Universe
"PTU" (Public Test Universe) This is the test build for Star Citizen and is where more focused testing takes place to get a new build for Star Citizen onto the Live servers. It's essentially the alpha test of the alpha.
"Free Fly" is where players can try Star Citizen for free for a limited time. It's a great way to see if you like what you see before buying.
"SM" (Server Meshing) This is the underlying tech being developed to allow Star Citizen to reach hundreds, thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands or more players in a single playable universe.
"SM" (Star Marine) This is the quick first-person shooter game mode in Star Citizen that is separate from the Persistent Universe. Games are fast action classic multiplayer type of experience. Star Marine is now just part of Arena Commander.
"AC" (Arena Commander) Is the quick multiplayer mode for dogfighting, racing, and first person shooting. It's part of Star Citizen but is separate to the Persistent Universe
"CitizenCon" is the big convention run every year by CIG, usually at large halls near one of their studios in each country they have studios in.
"IAE" (Intergalactic Aerospace Expo) The big ship sale event that brings in the money for funding as it allows players to purchase most ships for real money. This also brings in an in-game event into Star Citizen where you can walk around a convention centre filled with ships for each manufacturer, that you can rent and try out for free for 24 - 48 hours.
Some quick rapid fire in-game locations (for Star Citizen):
"JT" = Jumptown (drug lab location)
"HEX"/"GHEX"/"GRIM" = Grim Hex (criminal asteroid station)
"ARC" = ArcCorp (major planet in the persistent universe)
"A18" = Area 18 (city hub for ArcCorp)
"MT" = MicroTech (major planet in the persistent universe)
"NB" = New Babbage (city hub for microTech)
"EH" = Everus Harbor (space station orbiting the planet Hurston)
"SPK" = Security Post Kareah (security station to clear crime stats)
"GH" = Ghost Hollow (a mostly PvP mission site on microTech)
Other mentionables
"CS" = Crime Stat (your criminal level)
I hope this helps! I have definitely missed some words but I need to go to bed, so feel free to post them in the comments, and I'll update this post when I can.
TsarAgila wrote:CCU, cross chassis upgrade. An upgrade bought in the online store from a ship to a more expensive site ship.
WB, warbond. Purchases on the online store that can only be made with new money (store credits not allowed), usually for a discount or with better insurance.
LTI, Lifetime insurance. It's probably pointless because we don't know how ship insurance will work in game if it's ever released but some people covet this and will buy small ships with LTI just to upgrade them into bigger ships and keep the LTI.
Pyro_raptor841 wrote:Melt/Melting, Exchanging your purchased ship for store currency on the RSI store. Using store funds means you cannot get discounted 'Warbond' prices, but you can exchange for anything else in the store at a 1:1 rate.
RedditorsGetChills wrote:Pad ramming - ramming someone on their landing pad. They'll be very mad, and it's a bannable offense.
Rate fight - using different turn rates in a close distance dogfight to keep your target in your view and you out of theirs.
aUEC - money used for this alpha phase of the project. Collect it, don't get attached. UEC is the name for when it goes live.
Soon - Months to years to never.
Habs - habitation area of a station where you wake up at the beginning of the game and any session you didn't log out of your bed (bedlog).
Some ship nicknames:
Cutty - Drake Cutlass (usually Black, BEST Cutty)
Connie - RSI Constellation
Tali - Aegis Retaliator
890J - Origin 890 Jump
HH - Aegis Hammerhead
MSR - Crusader Mercury Star Runner
Cutlet - Drake Cutter
Penguin - Aegis Avenger (all variants)
ProceduralTexture wrote:L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 are the various Lagrange points positioned relative to each planet.
And also it's fun to know because Lagrange points are a real world thing [
> ]. Earth's L2 hosts some of humanity's most advanced research satellites, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, and L1 hosts probes that monitor the Sun, IIRC.
Overcast206 wrote:"The Verse"- The universe in which we play the game.
SnowComfortable6726 wrote:CR: Chris Roberts, CEO of CIG
Thesyzz wrote:PO = Port Olisar. The most beloved basic space station that lately has been replaced for a more feature complete space station. High chance people will talk in the gamechat how special PO was.
MetalHeadJoe wrote:ASOP (Automated Ship Organization Program) = ATM-looking thing with a yellow screen where you claim your ships at.
seeriktus wrote:OCS - Object container streaming. A technology that allows areas of the universe to be split apart and independently streamed in, so that it doesn't overload your PC.
SSOCS - Server side object container streaming. The server equivalent of OCS, although originally this was still the same physical server the containers are now being handed off through server meshing, replication layers, and entity graphs.
HUD - Head up display. The markers projected onto the cockpit window or glass panel, because you have your head up and can look out the cockpit window while still looking at the display.
MFD - Multifunction display. In older jets there are only dials that can do a single function.
QT - quantum travel
Splinejump - quantum travel but around a planet
Kastellian wrote:"gf": good fight
SpaceP0tato18 wrote:You forgot o7 = military salute. I was so confused when I saw it. I know it's not an acronym but you see it a lot.
StigHunter wrote:I would add IC for Issue Council. That's an important one that's specific to Star Citizen.
annabunches wrote:Worth adding: many people also use "PU" to refer specifically to the Live servers, as opposed to the more general concept of a Persistent Universe. Example: "it just dropped in PTU, it won't hit PU for at least another month".
SnowComfortable6726 wrote:A ‘30k’ is used to refer to a sever disconnect- you’ll see it as ‘Error 30000’