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| − | Use the following list to demystify the various (mostly wesnoth specific) acronyms you may run into at the forum.
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| − | == Names of Mainline Campaigns and Scenarios ==
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| − | *AoI      - "An Orcish Incursion"
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| − | *DiD      - "Descent into Darkness"
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| − | *EI       - "The Eastern Invasion"
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| − | *HttT     - "Heir to the Throne"
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| − | ** BoP    - "Bay of Pearls"
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| − | ** DD     - "Dwarven Doors"
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| − | ** HotNE  - "Home of the North Elves"
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| − | ** IotD   - "Isle of the Damned"
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| − | ** RtW    - "Return to Wesnoth"
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| − | ** SoE    - "Siege of Elensefar"
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| − | ** SoF    - "Scepter of Fire"
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| − | ** TotC   - "Test of the Clans"
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| − | ** VoD    - "Valley of Death"
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| − | *LoW      - "Legend of Wesmere"
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| − | *NR       - "Northern Rebirth"
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| − | *SoF      - "Sceptre of Fire"
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| − | *SotBE    - "Son of the Black Eye"
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| − | *TB       - "A Tale of Two Brothers"
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| − | *THoT     - "The Hammer of Thursagan"
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| − | *TRoW     - "The Rise of Wesnoth"
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| − | *TSG      - "The South Guard"
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| − | *UtBS     - "Under the Burning Suns"
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| − | == Unofficial Campaigns ==
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| − | *FtF      - "Flight to Freedom" (campaign name)
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| − | *IftU     - "Invasion from the Unknown" (campaign name)
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| − | *SE       - "Saving Elensefar" (campaign name)
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| − | == Unit Names ==
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| − | *bird    - usually Gryphon Rider/Master (knaglans), or occasionally a Falcon or Eagle Rider from the [[Extended Era]] Aragwaith and Kalifa factions.
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| − | *DA      - Dark Adept (undead)
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| − | *fish    - Merman (loyalists or rebels) or Naga Fighter (northerners)
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| − | *gobo    - An affectionate, if somewhat derogatory term for the Goblin Spearman
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| − | *gunner  - Dwarvish Thunderer/Thunderguard/Dragonguard (knaglans)
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| − | *HI      - Heavy Infantryman (loyalists)
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| − | *MoL     - Mage of Light (loyalists or rebels)
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| − | *Ulf     - Dwarvish Ulfserker (knaglans)
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| − | *WC      - Walking Corpse (undead)
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| − | *zombie  - Walking Corpse
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| − | == Other, Wesnoth-specific ==
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| − | *AMLA    - After Maximum Level Advancement
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| − | *AoH     - Age of Heroes
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| − | *BfW     - Battle for Wesnoth (the name of the game)
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| − | *BWH     - Been suggested before.  We think it's a good idea.  Hope to add it eventually.
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| − | *CABD    - Can Already Be Done, e.g., you can already create custom unit abilities via WML.
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| − | *CtH     - Chance to Hit (also C2H)
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| − | *CtBH    - Chance to Be Hit (also C2BH)
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| − | *CtK     - Chance to Kill (also C2K)
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| − | *CtBK    - Chance to Be Killed (also C2BK)
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| − | *EP      - Elvish Pillager, moderator and great man :) at forum
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| − | *FoW     - Fog of War (i.e. fog)
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| − | *FFA     - Free For All (playing a map with >2 players without teams)
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| − | *FPI     - Frequently Posted Idea (read the [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1158|FPI Post] from the Ideas Forum)
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| − | *HANE—EtH      - Hexes Are Not Evil - Embrace the Hex
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| − | *HAPMA   - Hexes Are Possibly Miles Across - http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1882
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| − | *HP      - Hit points
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| − | *IIRWIIR - It Is Ready When It Is Ready
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| − | *KISS    - Keep It Simple, Stupid: Applies to coding, not game rules (although indirectly it does): see [[WesnothPhilosophy]]
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| − | *MP      - Multiplayer or Movement Points
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| − | *N3T     - No 3-Teams; A belief stating that contests between three equal and opposing forces are inherently unbalanced
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| − | *OAB     - Options Are Bad; In reference to gameplay, not user interface options.  Mostly used by Turin. See also [[FrequentlyProposedIdeas]] (idea #1)
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| − | *OFWRA   - Old Flame War Revival Alert; In other words, we have discussed this before and have no interest in discussing it again, especially if it got ugly
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| − | * OOS - Out Of Synch - an error generated by Wesnoth.  OOS errors occur when game data for one player is different/incompatible from the others
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| − | * PoD    - Paths of Daggers, the name of a 2v2 multiplayer map.
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| − | *RiPLIB  - Reduction in Power when Levelling Is Bad: means that when a unit upgrades, at least one of its options should be strictly superior to the original unit. [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1423 Reference 1] / [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7205 Reference 2]
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| − | *RPG     - Role Playing Game - [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4385 1)] Wesnoth's experience system. <nowiki>2)</nowiki> An "RPG-style" game on the MP server means the primary focus will be walking your leader-units through a scripted storyline involving map exploration and lots of WML.
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| − | *SLF     - [[StandardLocationFilter]]
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| − | *SP      - Single Player (Campaigns)
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| − | *SUF     - [[StandardUnitFilter]]
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| − | *ToD     - Time of Day
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| − | *TWP     - The Wesnoth Philosophy: [[WesnothPhilosophy]]
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| − | *UMC    - User Made Campaign or User Made Content (any add-on not packaged with Wesnoth)
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| − | *WICOT  - WML is capable of this (the requested feature is already possible to script, so no need to hard-code it in C++)
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| − | *WINR    - Wesnoth Is Not Realistic
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| − | *WIN_    - Wesnoth Is Not... (Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, medieval Europe, an RPG, a wargame, a war simulation, etc.)
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| − | *WML     - Wesnoth Markup Language: [[ReferenceWML]]
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| − | *XP      - Experience
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| − | *ZoC     - Zone of Control
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| − | == General Acronyms ==
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| − | *AFaICT  - As Far as I Can Tell (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
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| − | *AFaIK   - As Far as I Know (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
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| − | *AfK     - Away from the Keyboard
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| − | *ASaP    - As Soon as Possible
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| − | *BRB     - Be Right Back
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| − | *BtW     - By the Way (A statement with a disclaimer on relevance)
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| − | *EV      - Expected Value
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| − | *FYI     - For Your Information
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| − | *GtG     - Got to Go
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| − | *IIRC    - If I Recall Correctly (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
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| − | *IMHO    - In My Humble Opinion (A statement with a disclaimer on objectiveness)
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| − | *IMO     - In My Opinion
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| − | *LTNS    - Long Time No See
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| − | *OMG     - Oh My God
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| − | *OT      - Off Topic: can refer either to the forum category (http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=11) or to spam
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| − | *OtOH    - On the Other Hand (A contrast)
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| − | *RotFL   - Rolling on the Floor Laughing; also RoFL
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| − | *RNG     - Random Number Generator
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| − | *RtFM    - Read the F***ing Manual
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| − | *RTS     - Real Time Strategy Game - as opposed to a turn-based game like Wesnoth
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| − | *SVN     - Subversion -- the bleeding-edge up-to-the-minute current version of Wesnoth [[WesnothSVN]] ([[What_Is_SVN]])
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| − | *TBS     - Turn Based Strategy Game, like Wesnoth
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