Commonly Used Acronyms in the Civ Community

[Tristan daCunha]

An acronym I have seen lately is REX or REXed. What on earth does it mean?

 

[BeefontheBone]

Rapid EXpansion. It's a sort of catchall term for an early (and rapid) expansion followed by consolidation, either by capturing cities or settling lots. So long as you don't overdo it and are in a position to shore up the economy afterwards, the short-term economic slowdown can be easily made up for in long-term advantage.

 

[Tristan daCunha]

Rapid EXpansion.

Ah, thank you. Its not a tactic I have fully engaged in, although it is certainly worth consideration.

 

[The Navy Seal]

BtS = Beyond the Sword

 

[hgthechinese]

AP.....the A.....something Palace. BTS pre-UN thing.

 

[The Navy Seal]

It's apostalic Palace.

 

[LAnkou]

BTS Beyond the Sword
MS Military Science

More to come with BTS i think

 

[hgthechinese]

AYBABTU--we all know what that is, right?

 

[Florian]

BFC = "Big Fat Cross," meaning the 22 squares that a city can work

 

[ggganz]

AYBABTU--we all know what that is, right?

No.

BFC = "Big Fat Cross," meaning the 22 squares that a city can work

21

 

[BirraImperial]

BSOD : Blue Screen of Death. What happens when you play Civ IV in my laptop :

 

[henrycccc]

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[Cabay Jet]

21

20 when you don't count the tile the city has been built on.

 

[LAnkou]

WHEOOH: We Have Enough On Our Hands
Aest: Aesthetics
LCBM:Lethal Collateral Big Mushroom
CH: Custom House

 

[Quintillus]

AYBABTU--we all know what that is, right?

All Your Base Are Belong To Us.

I actually found that off a link from a link of the Civilization III Wikipedia page, and the spelled-out phrase is in the postgame when you lose in CivIII, so it's not as far out as it first appears. I don't think the acronym is nearly as common as the full version in the Civ community, though.

YKWIM - You Know What I Mean. Used when you keep misspelling stuff. The only problem is that it is frequently misspelled.
YGTBKM - You've Got To Be Kidding Me. For times a Warrior defeats your Infantry three times in a row.

OK, now that I've got the funny ones out of the way (some other good ones in there, too, btw, CWFMCTF is and MIAS,IATAMN is ), I noticed no one has mentioned the acronyms for the popular mods. I'll start out:

RoC = Rhye's of Civilization
RaR = Rise and Rule
DyP = Double your Pleasure
FFH = Fall from Heaven

edit: LAnkou got FFH first on page 2.

 

[IAM]

Field Unanimous Descision Generated by an Engineer

F.U.D.G.E.

Fudge = fudge a building is to construct it with a great engineer

DTTFSA

Damn The Torpedeos Full Speed Ahead

When you declare war and unexpectedly your opponent was very well prepared. To late to back out now.

 

[The Navy Seal]

RtW = Road to War
NW = Next War
Goo = Gods of old
FF = Final Frontier
AW = AfterWorld
CTW = CrossRoads of the World
Def = Defense
pies = Spies

 

[Zebra 9]

EM = Erroniouse Manual

 

[ggganz]

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Lemme guess, RTFM?

RtW = Road to War
pies = Spies

Why would you just remove one letter?

 

[IAM]

I think spies was inadvertently misspelled in a post and became pies. Funny if you saw it.