Civ4 Lingo

[SS-18 ICBM]

Can we start a thread about the adopted words and expressions unique to Civ4? Been reading a lot of threads around here lately, and stuff like "2-pop whip" and "HinJewism" take me back to when I found this forum.

Common Civ4 acronyms, contractions, and terms:

Civics:
HR - Hereditary Rule
PS - Police State
US - Universal Suffrage
Buro - Bureaucracy
FS - Free Speech
CS - Caste System
FM - Free Market
SP - State Property
OR - Organized Religion

Diplomacy:
OB - Open Borders
DP - Defensive Pact
DoW - Declaration of War
Attack dog - Aggressive leader easily bribed into attacking other civs

Game Mechanics:
Whipping/Pop rushing - Hurrying production by sacrificing population under the Slavery Civic.
Cash rushing/Gold rushing - Hurrying production with Gold under Universal Suffrage Civic.

Great People:
GP - Great Person. Less commonly Great Prophet
GS - Great Scientist
GG - Great General
GA - Great Artist or Golden Age.
GE - Great Engineer
GM - Great Merchant
Bulbing - Consuming GPs to research tech.
Culture bomb - Nickname for GA's Great Work ability, which often pushes borders by the culture increase.
Settling - Adding GPs as Super Specialists to cities.

Leaders:
Booty - Boudica
Charly/Burger King - Charlemagne
Liz - Elizabeth
Hatty - Hatshepsut
HC - Huayna Capac
Izzy - Isabella
JC - Julius Caesar
MM - Mansa Musa
QSH - Qin Shi Huang
SB - Sitting Bull
Sully - Suleiman

Promotions (may be followed by Arabic or Roman numeral indicating stage):
CG - City Garrison
CR - City Raider
Woody/Woodsy - Woodsman

Strategies:
GP Farm - Great Person farm, a city with excess food devoted to running Specialists to generate GPs.
CE - Cottage Economy.
SE - Specialist Economy.

Technologies:
AH - Animal Husbandry
BW - Bronze Working
HBR - Horseback Riding
IW - Iron Working
CoL - Code of Laws
MC - Metal Casting
CS - Civil Service
PP - Printing Press
MM - Mass Media

Units:
HA - Horse Archer
Cats/Pults - Catapult
Phants - War Elephant
Xbow - Crossbows
CKN - Cho-ko-nu
Cuirs - Cuirassier

Great Wonders:
SH - Stonehenge
GW - Great Wall
Mids - Pyramids
SoZ - Statue of Zeus
TGL/GL/GLib - The Great Library
GLH - Great Lighthouse
AP - Apostolic Palace
SoL - Statue of Liberty
3GD - Three Gorges Dam
UN - United Nations
Fail gold - Conversion of Wonder production to gold when another civ builds it first.

National Wonders:
HE - Heroic Epic
NE- National Epic
FP - Forbidden Palace

 

[shakajewlu]

Bulbing

 

[Michkov]

We used to have an extensive acronym page, but I'm afraid it has fallen to the big software update a while back

 

[Lennier]

Bulbing

Bulbing means to use a great person (GP) to hurry research of a tech. Named after the icon for doing the rush.

 

[SittinDown]

"2-pop whip"

When in the Slavery Civic, you can sacrifice population for production. Whip refers to using this mechanic. A 2-pop whip, refers to a whip where 2 population are sacrificed. It is more efficient to sacrifice more than 1 population at a time, because you get 30 H per population sacrificed; at a cost of +1 unhappy for 10 turns no matter how many population you sacrifice.

A common 2-pop-whip is to get 4 hammers into an Axeman (4/35) at size 4. this generates an axeman, plus 29 hammers that overflow into the next build! much better than when there are 5 hammers in the axeman, which simply finishes the axeman, for the same cost to unhappiness. A perfectly timed whip is often refered to as "Max overflow". Using this mechanic can be really powerful because a city with 2 good food options and nothing else going for it can actually be a powerhouse unit factory.

 

[2popbulb]

This "overflow" thing makes Slavery overpowered,especially since you can sacrifice 1 or more population for same unhappiness penalty. This way you can get tons of units very fast. If that penalty would be equal to number of sacrificed population, Slavery would be more balanced.

 

[SittinDown]

This "overflow" thing makes Slavery overpowered,especially since you can sacrifice 1 or more population for same unhappiness penalty. This way you can get tons of units very fast. If that penalty would be equal to number of sacrificed population, Slavery would be more balanced.

maybe. whipping is very powerful, but it's not everything. there are other powerful things to counter it or make you'd rather do something else.

 

[elmurcis]

Food is king, Diplo is queen, whipping is key, Curaissers says hey

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

We used to have an extensive acronym page, but I'm afraid it has fallen to the big software update a while back

Maybe we can recreate here. I might start doing some.

Food is king, Diplo is queen, whipping is key, Curaissers says hey

"Cuirassier rush", the be-all and end-all of higher-level military strategy.

 

[SittinDown]

"Cuirassier rush"

A strategy where you go easy on early military, and instead focus on good tech trades and producing great scientists for bulbs that let you get Cuirassiers as soon as possible, forgoing everything else. It's very powerful because they're a 12 power gunpowder unit, which counteracts walls, and ignore first strikes which counteract longbows. Usually being a 2-move unit, you use them WITHOUT seige, and instead rely on more sophisticated military techniques which involve drawing your opposition out of cities, pillaging metal resources, et cetera.

 

[davelisowski]

Beeline - straight for a certain tech/unit

UU - unique unit

UB - unique building

Chop rush - cutting down a forrest for production bonus

One I can't figure out is SIP

 

[davelisowski]

SOD - stack of doom
a.k.a. Stack

Treb - trebuchet

 

[davelisowski]

OCC - one city challenge

 

[Lennier]

One I can't figure out is SIP

Settle in place.

 

[davelisowski]

Settle in place.

Thanks!

 

[davelisowski]

REX or REXing - Rapid Expansion

 

[lindsay40k]

Cuirstomp - Cuirassier Rush
Elepult Rush - getting HBR & Con early when you have Ivory
Burocap/Bureaucap - capital running Bureaucracy

WHEOOHRN - We Have Enough On Our Hands Right Now, the AI response to requests to DoW when they’re plotting

Plotting - an AI behaviour whereby they pick a victim, increase emphasis on military production, and declare war when their military strength is high enough relative to the the victim and their own population - regardless of how relations may have improved with the victim since Plotting commenced

SoD - Stack of Death, a large army that has reached a critical mass whereby harassment strategies will do little to reduce its effectiveness as a steamroller

Dogpile - a war with many factions against one, usually where the one is an underdog by Power ratings and the AIs pay each other peanuts to DoW

EE - Espionage Economy
OU - Oxford University
WS - Wall Street
HS - Holy City
Con - Construction
CF - ceasefire
PT - peace treaty

 

[davelisowski]

BFC - Big Fat Cross (max workable tiles for a city)

Fat Cross - same as above