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ticker the short name of your the corp and will be shown next to member names while in space eg The Imperial Assassins ticker is IMP A
Podded Pod killed (as in the capsule was destroyed)
Agro Agression - means things are shooting at you. ie "I have agro from the spawn in the left"
Camp Ships camping/waiting at a gate or area of space used by people to travel, and killing anyone who flies into it. (Most often seen in 0.0 with a bubble or interdictor)
Gank your (or someones) ability to cause damage. "I'm fitted to gank" Usually tend to mean that they've ogt alot of stuff to hurt people but little defence. Also can be a verb "we/i got ganked" -means we got whooped.
Sniper Ships fitted for long range (150-200km) encounters, eg. A megathorn with tech II railguns and fitting, allowing for a lock range and optimal between 150-200km.
Tank your (or someones) ability to recieve damage. "whos going to tank this complex?" or "how good is your tank?"
Tackling use of Warp Scramblers/Disruptors and Stasis Webifiers to prevent a target from escaping.
Speedtank / Kite / Kiteing Get the agro from the NPCs and then run around so they dont hit you well. Kinda like tanking, but its more about speed, transversal and less about pure damage absorbing ability.
FRAPS Films/videos made by FRAPS program. It records all your ingame activity to AVI file.
loadout Ship configuration - set via common station screen
PKers Playerkillers (Players in highsec that most commonly use exploits to attack you without response from Concorde)
Carebear Someone who doesn't care for PvP Combat
spawn NPC gathering/cluster of NPC ships. Also can be used if your mining and some NPC pirates appear.
respawn ie the NPCs are back!
drops Loot from destroyed ships
t1 Tech 1 Items - normal base version of an object ship, module, etc.
t2 Tech 2 Items - advanced modules (Meta 5)
Named Items Tech 1 object with specific name, higher quality than standard Tech 1 version, Meta 1 - 4, Meta 4 is best named object
Faction Items Rare Tech 1 items, Meta 6+ (dropped from overseer faction rats)
Officer Items Rarest/Most expensive modules, upto Meta 14 (dropped from powerful faction npcs)

Abbreviations & Acronyms:




ISD Interstellar Services Department
AURORA Auxiliary Union for Relay, Observation, Recording, & Analysis (Events), part of ISD
CRC Communications Relay Commission (Forum Moderators), part of ISD
ECAID Equipment Certification and Anomaly Investigations Division (Bug Hunters), part of ISD
STAR Support Team and Resources (Player Support), part of ISD
RMR Red Moon Rising Update
Rev Revelations Update
SOON Undocumented
TQ Tranquility Server Server (IP: 87.237.38.200:26000)
SiSi Singularity Test Server (IP: 87.237.38.50:26000)
DT Downtime (EvE servers maintained between 11-12 GMT daily)
QFT Quoted for truth
CTD Crashes To Desktop
TS TeamSpeak voice comms software
Vent Ventrilo voice comms software


SP Skill Points
Lv / Lvl Level
Alt Alternate Character - account's 2nd or 3rd char slot often used to support primary char
OOC Out Of Character
IC In Character
CTO Corporate Training Operation
Ammo / Muni / Munni Amunition
RoF Rate of Fire
DPS Damage Per Sec
MI Mission Issuer
MT Mission Taker
P&P People & Places
NPC Non-Player Character (computer controlled eg. Agents, Rats)
Rat NPC Pirate
PvP Player vs Player
PvE Player vs Environment, combat vs rats and in missions
KoS Kill on Sight
NBSI Not Blue Shoot It (referring to alliances in 0.0 killing anyone not set as friendly)
NRDS Not Red Don't Shoot
FC Fleet Commander
0.0 Lawless space outside empire and lowsec (actual sec varies from -0.01 to -0.9 higher gives better faction rats and loot)
Cyno Cynosural Field
POS Player Owned Structure (NOT "pod on sight")
OP Outpost
BM Bookmark
SS Safespot (spot in space that's not directly in line with any 2 objects)
Industry - Manufacturing & Research:



RP Research Points
BP BluePrint
BPC BluePrint Copy
BPO BluePrint Original
ME Material/Mineral Efficiency
ME-R Material Efficiency Research
PL Productivity Level (of BluePrint)
PE-R Productivity Efficiency Research
Bist Bistot Ore
Hed Hedbergite Ore
Hem Hemorphite Ore
Hemo Hemorphite Ore
Kern Kernite Ore
Mex Mexallon Mineral
Nocx / Nox Nocxium Mineral
Mega Megacyte Mineral, Megathron (Battleship)
Morph Morphite Mineral
Plag Plagioclase Ore
Prod Production
Pyer / PyrPyerite Mineral
Pyro Pyroxeres Ore
PE Production Efficiency (skill)
Ref Refining (skill)
Ref Eff / RE Refining Efficiency (skill)
Scord Scordite Ore
Trit Tritanium Mineral
Veld Veldspar Ore
Zyd Zydrine Mineral
Factions & Major Alliance Tickers:



ASCN Ascendant Frontier (Alliance)
BoB Band of Brothers (Alliance)
DB Dark Blood
DG / Dread Dread Guristas
Dom Angel Cartel (Domination)
Gist Angel Cartel
SS Shadow Serpentis
TS True Sansha (also used as an abbreviation for the voice comms software TeamSpeak)
Ship Class:



AF Assault Ship
Inty / Ceptor Interceptor
Indy Industrial
HAC Heavy Assault Ship (cruiser)
BC BattleCruiser
CS Command Ship (BC)
BS Battleship
DN / Dread Dreadnought
CovOps Covert Ops Cloaked ship normally frigate sometimes the recon cruiser
SB Stealth Bomber; Shield Booster; Sensor Booster; Smartbomb
MS Mothership
Ships:



Vindi Vindicator (Faction BS)
Mach Machariel (Faction BS)


Arma / geddon Armageddon (BS)
Apoc Apocalypse (BS)
Aba Abaddon (BS)
Blasterthron Megathron fitted with blasters (BS)
Dom / Domi / Dommy Dominix (BS)
Mega / Thron Megathron (BS), Megacyte mineral
'phoon Typhoon (BS)
Test / Pest Tempest (BS)
Scorp Scorpion (BS)


Abso Absolution (CS)
Damn Damnation (CS)
NH Nighthawk (CS)
Sleip Sleipnir (CS)


Cane Hurricane (BC)
Harbi Harbinger (BC)
Railrox Ferox with Railguns (BC)
Myrm Myrmidon (BC)
Prohp Prohpecy (BC)


Beagle Eagle fitted with blasters (HAC)
Cerb Cerberus (HAC)
Moonin Munin (HAC)
Sac Sacrilege (HAC)
Vaga Vabagond (HAC)


Lach Lachesis (recon)
Pilg Pilgrim (recon)


Arbi / Arby Arbitrator (cruiser)
BB BlackBird (cruiser)
Rax / T-rax Thorax (cruiser)
Ruppy Rupture (cruiser)


Itty # Iteron Mark # (industrial)
Bessie / Stower Bestower (industrial)


Ret / Retri Retribution (AF)
Jag Jaguar (AF)


Mal / Male / Diction Malediction (inty)
Sader Crusader (inty)
Ranis Taranis (inty)


Manti Manticore (stealth bomber)


Kessie Kestrel (frig)
Cursus Incursus (frig)
Puni Punisher (frig)
Weapons:



AC Autocannon
Arti Artillery
DLB Dual Light Beam Lasers
DLP Dual Light Pulse Lasers
Howi Howitzer
MPL Medium Pulse Lasers
Modules:



50-1600mm 50-1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates
AB Afterburner
BCU Ballistic Control System (unit)
Bubble Mobile Warp Disruptor (small/medium/interdictor)
CPR Capacitor Power Relay
CPU Co-Processor
Damp Remote Sensor Dampener
DC Damage Control
EANM Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
GS Gyrostabilier
Hardener Any shield/armor resistance module, passive and active.
HS Heatsink
Istab Inertia Stabilizers
Jammer ECM (Electronic Countermeasures)
LSE Large Shield Extender
MFS / Mag Stab Magnetic Field Stabilizer
MAPC Micro Auxiliary Power Core
MFS Magnetic Field Stabilizer (also Mag Stab)
MWD MicroWarp Drive
Nano Nanofiber Internal Structure
Neut Energy Neutralizer (small/medium/heavy)
Nos Nosferatu (small/medium/heavy)
ODI Overdrive Injector
PDS Power Diagnostic System
Poly Polycarbon Engine Housing (a mass reduction rig)
Repper Armor Repairer
SAR Small Armor Repairer
MAR Medium Armor Repairer
LAR Large Armor Repairer
RCU Reactor Control Unit
SB Sensor Booster; Smartbomb; Stealth Bomber; Shield Booster
Scram Warp Disruptor/Scrambler
Smartys Smartbombs
SPR Shield Power Relay
WCS / Stabs Warp Core Stabilizers
Web Stasis Webifier

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