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 / Pyr | Pyerite 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 |