Glossary of Acronyms

kstuartwilson · November 2015

Someone needs to write a glossary terms for newbies. I've been on this for two years and have picked up most of it, but every now and then someone tosses out an acronym that I can't figure out, I'm sure newbies are scratching their collective heads too. Tonight's new one was "AFK", in reference to PVE missions. Anyone wanna help me out with that? From what I can tell it's in reference to lazy schmucks who sit on the side and wait without doing anything. Terms like DOFF, BUFF, NERF, and tons of terms referenced with ship equipment, weapons, consoles, yadda yadda yadda. I know when I started I was googling these terms but most times I never actually found them spelled out. Just the acronym. Anyone want to go to town with this? Or am I just another TRIBBLE who hasn't found the one that exists yet.

bergins · November 2015

AFK=Away From Keyboard

Not STO-specific, but you might check out this page: http://mmos.com/mmo-terms

rattler2 · November 2015

DPS: Damage Per Second
DL: Dilithium
ECs: Energy Credits
DOff: Duty OFFicer
BOff: Bridge OFFicer
DOT: Damage Over Time
AP: AntiProton
GPL: Gold Pressed Latinum
LF: Looking For (insert appropriate term here, be it Buy, Sell, Trade, Group, Guild...)
LTS: LifeTime Subscription
PUG: Pick Up Group
PvE: Player vs Environment
PvP: Player vs Player
ISA: Infected Space Advanced
IGA: Infected Ground Advanced
CSA: Cure Space Advanced
CGA: Cure Ground Advanced
KSA: Kitomer Space Advanced
KGA: Kitomer Ground Advanced
T#: Tier (insert number)

oldravenman3025 · November 2015

bergins wrote: »

AFK=Away From Keyboard

For starters...

And one that is widely misused on these boards.

Not everybody who is dicking about is "AFK". "Leeching" would be more appropriate.

kjwashington · November 2015

DOff/BOff (only idiots capitalize all 4 letters) stands for Duty Officer or Bridge Officer.
BUFF and NERF aren't acronyms as far as I can tell.
Buff refers to increasing the effectiveness of something. I believe it comes from the term "buff" which is usually used as a synonym for muscular.
Nerf means to decrease the effectiveness of something. I'm not sure where this one comes from, but my best guess is it references nerf guns, which are weaker than regular guns.

rattler2 · November 2015

kjwashington wrote: »

DOff/BOff (only idiots capitalize all 4 letters) stands for Duty Officer or Bridge Officer.
BUFF and NERF aren't acronyms as far as I can tell.
Buff refers to increasing the effectiveness of something. I believe it comes from the term "buff" which is usually used as a synonym for muscular.
Nerf means to decrease the effectiveness of something. I'm not sure where this one comes from, but my best guess is it references nerf guns, which are weaker than regular guns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerf_(video_gaming)
Methinks... you may be right.

gfreeman98 · November 2015

Most of these are general terms. Wasn't there a comprehensive, STO-specific list posted at one time? (It was on the old forums)

jbmaverick · November 2015

Here's a thread from about 2 years ago, although you might have to search through it a bit.

http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1138795/stol-acronym-abbreviations-list

tigercatgirl · November 2015

DPS=Damage Per Second.....NOTE: the weapons in STO on ships actually fire in volleys over seconds. So the DPS listed on a weapon is actually DOT (Damage over time) or DPV (Damage Per Volley). Volley also includes a recyle time, so for example a beam array fires 1 shot every second for 4 seconds and then takes 1.5 seconds before it fires again. The volley length is 5.5 seconds so that is why a 1000 point array shows a (9##) for its DPS.

So if your confused about DPS talk in chats...don't be! Most people playing do not know how the weapons actually work in the game. Most mmo's keep their damage figures private and use weird log rythm equations. When you hear someone saying they do 150,000 dps...they are not actually doing that. Trust me, they aren't...there are resistances, and dodge numbers and other factors that reduce that damage to a much smaller number.

rattler2 · November 2015

tigercatgirl wrote: »

DPS=Damage Per Second.....NOTE: the weapons in STO on ships actually fire in volleys over seconds. So the DPS listed on a weapon is actually DOT (Damage over time) or DPV (Damage Per Volley). Volley also includes a recyle time, so for example a beam array fires 1 shot every second for 4 seconds and then takes 1.5 seconds before it fires again. The volley length is 5.5 seconds so that is why a 1000 point array shows a (9##) for its DPS.

So if your confused about DPS talk in chats...don't be! Most people playing do not know how the weapons actually work in the game. Most mmo's keep their damage figures private and use weird log rythm equations. When you hear someone saying they do 150,000 dps...they are not actually doing that. Trust me, they aren't...there are resistances, and dodge numbers and other factors that reduce that damage to a much smaller number.

Unless we're talking upper level WoW I think. A friend of mine plays and he can get some pretty high numbers. Especially since I think the current level cap is actuall 100.

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