Commonly Used Acronyms in the Civ Community

[Zebra 9]

Lemme guess, RTFM?

Why would you just remove one letter?

It was misspelled in the manual.

 

[Zoot06]

LoA-List of Acronyms

 

[Zoot06]

JOMT-Just one more turn!

 

[Monkeyfinger]

WFYABTA (variable - We Fear You Are Becoming Too Advanced!)

Why the hell is this not on the list yet?

 

[Swedishguy]

MT - Military Tradition

It's very popular for some reason.

 

[uat2d]

GW - Great Wall or Global Warming

(terrible "nuke use" consequences Firaxis put in this game... )

 

[uat2d]

FF - Final Frontier
NW - Next War
RFC - Rhye's and Fall of Civilization

The other mods are pretty simple to identify!

 

[Swedishguy]

NW - Next War

That's quite unintuitive. It wouldn't be the first thing I would think of.

Why are people so darn lazy that they can't get themselves to spell "Next War"?! Y'all suck!

 

[uat2d]

^

1) Most people are lazy (notice that i typed people and not ppl)
2) The new members might not know, i'm just trying to help!

 

[ggganz]

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[uat2d]

And notice that he took the time to get you to notice that he typed people not ppl. And notice that I took the time to point that out. And that I took the time to point that out. And that I took the time to point that out. And that I took the time to point that out. And that I took the time to point that out. And that I took the time to point that out. And that I took the time to point that out. And that I took the time to point that out. And that I took the time to point that out....

OMG! That was confusing! Was your post really necessary? It was TF who created this thread, better not to spam... so watch out!

 

[TerryM]

SE - Specialist Economy
CE - Cottage Economy

 

[Gooblah]

Um, I think the phrase is:
"We would rather keep this tech for victory"

Something like that, used when a Civ (Roosevelt of America, for example) has a tech like Rocketry or Mass Media that directly enable a Victory type. I've seen it once.
So...
WWRKT4V

 

[JBossch]

TSNISTBAIAIP4 = Too Stoned to Notice I'm Six Techs Behind the AI and its Past 4AM

I'm really thinking this one will catch on.

 

[GoodGame]

which is easily confused with Great Artist.
Similarly is the case for a Great Prophet.

I'd propose we use Gart for Great Artists,
and Gpop for Great Prophet.

GA--Golden Age

(IF I think of any more I'll just edit this instead of posting one at a time).

 

[JustinianVII]

Gus- Augustus Caesar
Mids- Pyramids
Mus- Mansa Musa
Trebs- Trebuchets
KK and GK- The Khans

 

[Scrybe]

How about WM?

as in:

Didn't see the point of WMs before now, but just saw a straight section of river where the AI had built farms on both sides, PLUS there was a watermill on the tile edge between.

 

[slaze]

What is teh? and pwn?

 

[mystyfly]

teh = the
pwn = own (expression you use to show someone is better than someone else. For example: 'I pwned you' can mean that I just took all your cities)

...

WW = War weariness
SE = specialist economy
CE = cottage economy (i know they've been posted before...)
FE = food economy
TRE = trade route economy
EE = Espionage economy (BtS only..)

HR = hereditary rule
Rep = Representation
US = Universal suffrage
Bue = Buerocracy
FS = Free Speech
CS = Caste System
Merc = mercantilism
FM = Free Market
SP = State Property
OR = Organized Religion
Theo = Theocracy
FR = Free Religion

UU = Unique unit
UB = Unique building
VC = victory condition
REX = Rapid EXpansion
rush = very early attack
DoW = Declaration of War
WHEOOH = 'We have enought on our hands'
WFYABTA = 'We fear you are becoming too advanced'

CR = City Raider
CG = City Garrison
C = Combat (the promotion is usually meant. All those three are generally combined with a number like CG-2)

AH = Animal Husbandry
BW = Bronze Working
IW = Iron Working
MC = Metal Casting
ABC = Alphabet (kinda obvious )
123 = Mathematics (...)
lit = Literature
CoL = Code of Laws
DR = Divine Right
CS = Civil Service
PP = Printing Press
Nat = Nationalism
MT = Military Tradition
AL = Assembly Line
SciMeth = Scientific Method
MM = Mass Media

I'll leave out the leaders' nicknames as they're usually quite different from player to player. Just search for 'Leader nickname' or something like this and you'll find 1000+ threads about them.

 

[UnlockPotential]

DDPM - Don't DogPile Me...

TAPAM - They are plotting against me..