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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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| − | *DM - "Delfador's Memoirs"
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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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| − | * frog - a Saurian, especially "magic frog" for an Augur
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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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| − | *pyro - Unit in the Drake Burner line
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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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| − | *BfM - Battle for Meridia
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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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| − | *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
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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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| − | *SSF - [[StandardSideFilter]]
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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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| − | *UAPEB -Units Are Possibly Entire Battalions
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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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| − | *AI - Artificial Intelligence (An 'AI side' is a side controlled by the computer)
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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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| − | *IYSWIM - If You See What I Mean (A statement seeking agreement)
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| − | *LTNS - Long Time No See
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| − | *OMG - oh my god(s)
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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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| − | *QFT - Quote For Truth
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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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