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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.10.10 03:36:00 -
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I've seen:
brb [be right back] or [bathroom break]: Quick way to say, don't start the squad match without me, or, continue the chat without me, and I'll catch up in a few minutes.
kk [Okay]: The kid-texter's way of saying, I'll go along with that, and I'm very enthusiastic about doing so.
OB [Orbital Barrage]: This is causing some confusion, because it's supposed to refer to the fire support barrage that can only be requested from a EVE player you communicate with in FW matches. But it is repeatedly mixed up with the "warbarge strike" we can call down when we earn enough points in the Public Contract matches.
EHP [EFFECTIVE Hit Points]: I think this is supposed to be the TOTAL of your dropsuit's shield HP + armour HP, added together.
DS [Dropship]: When player use this, they USUALLY mean the Transport Dropship. This is the dropship that does NOT have a gun in the nose (or chin). It carries a maximum of six passengers, instead of the max four that the ADS (Assault Dropship) can carry.
Ringer [Team Ringer Player]: This is used in PC matches. When a team plays a PC match, they never know how dangerous the opposing team might be, or what sort of proto weapons they might bring to try to win this match at all costs. If our team's leader wants to maximize her chances of winning, she might "hire" a freelance player (someone who is very experienced or has high specialty skills, who may not be part of her corp and may not even care about the corp's ideas) to fight on her team and improve their chances of winning the PC match. The freelance player is called "A Ringer".
Scammer [Scam Artist]: EVE Online has players who infiltrate your corp to steel tons of money from the treasury. Dust has a small version of this, where players use the Chat channels to trick ISK out of you, or to make you agree to trade items from your gear collection, and run off without trading you what they owe you. We call them Scammers in this game. As Dust's trading menus get more and more developed, scammers will be the biggest part of the PvE environment.
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
681
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Posted - 2015.10.18 04:49:00 -
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 Also saw:
gg: [good game] or [good going] or [great game!]: Either way we want to argue it, this term means positive praise from the players who fought with you in that last match.
Meat-shield [nearby Heavy player as your shield]: The game seems to be overrun with more and more loner-style new players, so this term is starting to get extinct (sadlyGǪ). But it's a tactic where a fellow player (usually a Sentinel or Commando merc) lets you intuitively duck behind her when under enemy fire, because her suit's higher ehp allows her to act as a human shield for a few seconds. Still one of the BEST illustrations of true team-spirit this game!
Fattie: [Sentinel-suit player]: The term used to be used alot by vet players,GǪ but the new players these days grab a Sentinel suit for their own protection more than a chance to shield others----when you say "Fattie" to them, they think you're making an inuslt about the Sentinel's plus-size.  !!
NPC [Non-Player Corporation]: These are the Dev-controlled "corporations" that we players can't own or influence. They are Lore-driven, and about the only thing you can voluntarily do with an NPC is resell the gear you salvage from your matches. When you first create your merc character, the first agency name you're given by default, is actually an NPC.
"Sell" [Sell to a Player] : Dust is opening up its trading component much more, so some terms are becoming very specific. Selling is when you give and item to another Dust player for ISK in return.
"Trade" [Swap with a Player]: When you give an item to another player to get an ITEM in return. Not money.
"Re-sell" [Resale to NPCs]: When you sell your item back to the NPCs (or to a Resale Agent like Jara Kumora) for ISK. You're NOT selling to another human player.
Eve Capsuleers (pilots) in our Chat channels can add to the confusion too. But they have a really disciplined set of terms they use in combat. Some of those terms I see still pop up in conversation, and apply to our Dust fights:
"neut" [Neutral Asset]: Any Nulls, CRUs. Installations, etc that you find on the map, but haven't been hacked yet. Technically, they are "yellow" and un-activated.
NDS [NEUT--DON'T--SHOOT !! ] : The slogan means, it's always strategically better to hack a yellow Neutral Installation, or leave it undamaged for fellow players who could really use it later, than to blow it up for safeguards or for WPs.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
685
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Posted - 2015.10.20 13:43:00 -
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Saw three more last night between in a chat between a Capsuleer and two mercs:
LS [Low Sec Space] : When you have a Capsuleer trying to explain why she stopped dropping orbital barrages for your team at the moment in the match when your needed fire support the most, (WTF, Capsuleer?), she might mention that if the District you're fighting on is in "Low Security Space", her battleship may have gotten attacked and blown up by a a roving gang of bandits. Apparently in EVE-Online, LS space is a risky part of space to loiter in, even if you're trying to help some Dust players.
HS [HIgh Sec Space] : The Capsuleers' chat abbreviation for "High Security Space". This space is safer for pilots to loiter in, because it's patrolled and policed by the DeD. DeD?? Who??
DeD [Directive Enforcement Department] : Without going into lots of EVE detail (we ain't EVE... we are DUST!) this is Eve-Online's version of the rule-enforcer and player punisher system we have in FW matches. A Dust merc may say in the chat, "I took my anger out on a fellow player with my gun in FW, and I got Kicked from the match" A Capsuleer may say in our chat, "I did the same thing last week to this mining-player I hate, and I got DeD."
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
712
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Posted - 2015.11.10 18:16:00 -
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Trading in Dust is going to become PROLIFIC. CCP always envisioned that players in this New Eden game would retire from the battleground, and build our wealth purely through commerce and player-transactions (even though we are Console-players, and are world-renowned as shooters-not-socializers in our games). And the Chat Channels are starting to show it....FAST.
So, two more terms were being thrown around last week:
wtb [Want to Buy] ; Sometimes written as "LTB" (LOOKING to buy), but I suspect it means the same thing. A Dust Player is hungry for a particular hard-to-get piece of gear, and is asking if anyone out there has this item and wants to sell it.
wts [Want to Sell] : A Dust player has a small haul of salvaged item, and she figures it must be worth more than reselling it back to the NPCs. So she's advertizing on the Chat Channel that she has (or can get her hands on) this cool piece of gear. "Anyone want to buy?---let's talk money".
NOTICE, in both explanations I wrote DUST-PLAYER! It's got to be a Dust player you're about to sell or buy with.
Don't let anyone fool you into trying to sell or buy something from an EVE-player. Eve players are perfectly allowed to be on the same Dust Chat Channels as us, but they CAN'T directly trade any stuff with a Dust player.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
745
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Posted - 2015.12.04 15:56:00 -
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Here's one that was so obvious, it had me stumped, and even had two Eve Online pilots stumped when they tried to keep up with the conversation on the Chat Channel:
dced: Wha---? What the heck does that mean? "I was up to 3500 wp in the FW unitl I got dced....". "Sorry about that. Dced!"
To be "dced" means you were "Disconnected" from the game by the Server. 
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