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jg2112
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I'm a VA, but I still don't know certain STO terms yet. What's pugging, agro, proc, DPS, tanking, and other STO terms that might be useful?
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http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/archive/index.php/t-261988.html
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10% = 10% is a stratagy to get the Infected space optional
Aggro = A "aggravation" or "aggression" state a NPC mob. (A mob will ignore you until it is aggro'ed)
AoE = Area of Eeffect
APA = Attack Pattern Alpha
APB = Attack Pattern Beta
APD = Attack Pattern Delta
APO = Attack Pattern Omega
Aux2SIF = Aux Power to Structural Integrity Field
BA = Beam Array
BFAW/FAW = Beam fire at will
BG = Brigadier General (Klingon LA)
Bind = Stuck to your character, can not be sold. See Bind on Pickup/Bind on Equip and Bound
BoP = 1) Bind on pickup. 2) Bird of prey (KDF playable ship class). 3) Bird of prey Hangar pet of the Vo'quv. 4) KDF Bird of prey NPC 5) Romulan Bird of prey NPC
BOFF = Bridge Officer
Boss = High level enemy, usually the final enemy of the mission or part of the mission.
BP# = Boarding Party #
Buff = Something which adds strength or ability.
CGE/CGN - Initials for The Cure Ground Elite or Normal Special Task Force missions.
Connie = TOS (The Original Series) Constitution class ship
C-Points = Cryptic Points, used to buy things which add to the gameplay experience (Soon to be replaced by Zen)
CRF# = Cannon Rapid Fire #
Cryptic = Company that owns and operates Star Trek Online
CSE/CSN - Initials for The Cure Space Elite or Normal Special Task Force mission.
CXP = Commendation Expience point
DBB = Dual Beam Banks
DC = Dual Cannons (or disconnection from the server)
Debuff = Something which removes strength or ability.
Dev = Developers (of the game)
DHC = Dual Heavy Cannons
DI = Diplomatic Immunity
Dilithium = made by refining ore, can be exchanged for C-Points, used to purchase certain items.
DOFF = Duty Officer
DoT = Damage over Time.
DPS = Damage Per Second.
DS9 = Deep Space Nine space station in Beta Ursae sector
EC = Energy Credits, the standard currency in-game
EP2Aux = Emergency Power to Aux
EPTS# = Emergency Power to Shields
ESD = Earth Space Dock (man hub of federation activity)
ET# = Engineering Team #
EWP# = Eject Warp Plasma
Fed = Federation
Feddies=Federation players
gg = good game
gj = good job
GPL = Gold Pressed Latinum, used for certain DOFF tasks, and buying certain items in Quarks.
Griefing = Bullying in a game environment, though misuse of game mechanics.
GW# = Gravity Well #
HE# = Hazard Emitters #
HoT = Heal over Time. Regeneration of health.
IGE/IGN - Initials for Infected Ground Elite or Normal Special Task Force missions.
IP = Intellectual Property
ISE/ISN - Initials for Infected Space Elite or Normal Special Task Force missions.
KAGE/KAGN - Initials for Khitomer Accord Ground Elite or Normal Special Task Force missions.
Kang - Referring to the ship protected in Cure Space mission.
KASE/KASN - Initials for Khitomer Accord Space Elite or Normal Special Task Force missions.
KDF = Klingon Defence Forces
Klink = Klingon
LA = Rear Admiral, Lower Half
LG = Lieutenant General (Klingon VA)
Lobi = Lobi Crystal
LT = Lieutenant
MG = Major General (Klingon UA)
MMORPG = Massively Multilayer Online RPG.
Mob = Any NPC, but generally refers to enemies.
MVAE = Multi vector advance escort
Mvam = Multi vector assault module
MW# = Miracle Worker
Nanites = Borg spheres, probes and structures that heal/repair in stfs.
Nerf = To reduce the capability of an item or the challenge of a mission
NPC = Non Player Character (can include Vendors, and so-called "Background" people)
Oddy = Odyssey Class Starship
Pet = Any NPC summoned by a player. Pets can be non-combat, or combat.
PH# = Polarize Hull #
PR = Phaser Relay
Proc = Short for Procedure, used to describe a trait or bonus on an active piece of equipment.
Pug = Pick-up-Group, which is a team that is assembled of random team mate usually through a queue. May also be used as a derogatory term used on a perceived weaker member of a team.
PvE = Player VS Environment
PvP = Player VS Player
PW = Perfect World, Company that owns Cryptic
Respec = Short for Respecification, AKA Retraining. Process of "redoing" your skills, and re-assigning skill points
RMMRL = Cure space stratagy refering to kill order. (right probes, middle probes, middle cube, right cube, left everything)
RP = 1) Role playing, 2) may refer to the ability "Grant Marauding Force" (Rank 3 Marauding ability similar to Diplomatic immunity) origianlly known as Raiding Party
RPG = Role Playing Game. Long history of gaming, includes titles such as Dungeons and Dragons, and Final Fantasy.
RSP# = reverse shield polarity
Shard = Collection of Servers that runs the game
Skill Points = (??? how to explain in a short thing)
ST# = Science Team #
STF = Special Task Force missions
STOW = Star Trek Online Wiki
Tank/Tanking = The ability to take damage and to prevent other team member from being attacked.
THY# = Torpedo High Yield #
Tick = MMORPG term, A single time increment in a series that is part of the same event/move/ability (DoT, HoT)
Toon = Character
TSS# = transfer shield strength
TT# = Tactical Team #
UA = Rear Admiral, Upper Half
VA = Vice Admiral
XP = AKA Skill Points
tanking is the abilty toi take a lot of damage w/o dieing
DPS is damage per second
aggro is when you attack someone and get then to attack you and not your team
if you need to know any more term just ask :biggrin:
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Pugging is joining a public group of people to play. Like in an stf when you enter the que to play, the game puts other people on your team to play with.
Agro is basically the enemies attention. If you walk into a room of people and the guys by the door attack you then you have their agro.
Proc is the extra ability your weapons have innate. For instance phasers have the proc that they have a chance to disable a system on the enemies ship. These are listed in game on the weapon.
DPS stands for damage per second. Its a common way people use to put a number on how much damage they can do over time in a fight.
Tanking doesn't seem to happen that much in sto. At least I haven't noticed it very much. This is where one guy stands out in front and gets all the baddies attention (agro) so that they target him with attacks instead of the rest of the team.
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This is usually also connected to a given range, example: staying just outside of aggro range for a group of very tough enemy NPC ships, while your shields and hull damage recover before going in full speed with guns blazing.
Aggro=Aggravation, you annoy an enemy enough that it breaks off of everything else, and focuses on you.
It's sort of an abbreviation of Aggravation/Aggravated.
For example "Have to log, guys, drawing GF aggro." :P
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "I weary of the chase. Wait for me. I shall be merciful and quick."
In that sense, the phrase "you noob, you keep getting aggro" would mean "you inexperienced player, you wandered into the hot-zone where the enemy mobs can see you, and now we HAVE to fight them"
In many cases, tactics in STFs and such, require that groups of players travel a fair distance to where the current fight is, and sometimes a straight-line back to the fight travels near enough to several lower level NPC groups that have respawned. In this situation, the inexperienced player flies right through the thickest patch, and ends up aggroing 2-3 groups at once, while the experienced player might fly straight up and over all of the enemy groups.
So this taunt about "noobs getting aggro" that was mentioned in another thread, may in fact refer to a lack of awareness about the tactic of avoiding said aggro zones.
RP = Raiding Party (KDF version of DI).
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "I weary of the chase. Wait for me. I shall be merciful and quick."
Thanks for putting that link in, since the thread was never completed. Hopefully, we can track down the rest of them in order to consolidate them into a sticky.
One thing I forgot to contribute to the list was
EWP: Eject Warp Plasma
There are still a ton out there, so please, everyone contribute.
Mods, I hope we can get this into some form of a sticky.
Is Role Playing really that dead that RP can be used for other terms without confusion?
Well, if someone is asking in a space zone "Can anyone give RP" they're hopefully asking for Raiding Party.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "I weary of the chase. Wait for me. I shall be merciful and quick."
You do have a valid point. I will make sure to add your notation to it. Unfortunately slang like regular English reuses terms and is up to the person to try to figure out based on context of the conversation.
One example of this is the term BoP. It can mean Bind on pickup, Bird of prey (the one that you fly) or Bird of prey combat pet of the Vo'quv.
While role playing is a valid term for rp. The one most people will need to learn is raiding party since in game the term raiding party is referring to the "Grant Marauding Force" ability under Marauding Rank 3. Raiding party is the older term that was updated in march. Please see patch notes for details.
Unfortunately people still use the older term.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "I weary of the chase. Wait for me. I shall be merciful and quick."
Unless you ask about stuff like for example ATPO or RSP, which are STO specific.
Yes, it's true that the OP's examples weren't STO specific, but he/she did ask for STO terms. Therefore, we're trying to compile an all-in-one list w/in this thread. Keep up the contributions, all. Thanks.
MW# = Miracle Worker I, II, III
I know, I was just pointing out that since these aren't STO specific terms, the answers being provided are useful even outside of STO itself, and that's a good thing.
So unless a term is obviously STO specific, people should feel free to apply the answers given here in other MMO games they might play later and hopefully we won't get too many threads like the one where the one guy thought only Tactical officers could do 'alpha strikes' because only they have Attack Pattern Alpha... Again, it's a term used in many games (and I think alpha strike specifically originated in Mech Warrior.)
Kill all Tactical Drones in the left near corner, right near corner and the middle
platform. The 3 jumpers then start the generator on the right near corner and
follows clockwise pattern, ending in the far right corner.
The 2 remaining team members will wait until the jumpers are on the second
generator and then start killing the remaining Tactical Drones, starting from the
far left corner.
MRRML = Middle probes, right probes, right cube, middle cube and all left. Alternate tactic for CSE.
Becky = Rebecca Simmons, the final boss in Infected Ground.
Pulsewave/Hug = Tactic for Cure Ground Boss fight, where team get as close as possible and shoots with pulsewave guns until Armek or the team is dead.
Just to add to this, Becky is also referred to as Manus by some too.
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FS = Fleet Support