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Offline Elmo

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #30 on: January 07, 2010, 05:35:15 AM »
Thanks Steve.  Research Points sounds right.  I was only guessing based on the CIWS thread.
 

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #31 on: April 09, 2010, 12:53:15 AM »
What's OWP? Off-World Platform?
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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #32 on: April 09, 2010, 02:19:19 AM »
Quote from: "AndonSage"
What's OWP? Off-World Platform?

I've been assuming (without hard evidence) that it stands for Orbital Weapon Platform.

You can't assume we know this stuff when you answer our questions, guys! :)
 

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #33 on: April 09, 2010, 04:07:43 AM »
Quote from: "The Shadow"
Quote from: "AndonSage"
What's OWP? Off-World Platform?

I've been assuming (without hard evidence) that it stands for Orbital Weapon Platform.

You can't assume we know this stuff when you answer our questions, guys! :)
Before I asked the question, I did do a search on OWP, and nothing came up. Which is why I asked here. But then I found this post (while searching on something else, actually), and OWP appears to indeed be Orbital Weapon Platform. Thing is, doing a search on OWP doesn't bring up anything.

It appears the search function does not like words below a certain length (certainly not a 3-character length), and it doesn't like any punctuation, e.g. VB.NET (a search on that brings up nothing, even when I know there are messages with VB.NET in them). I wonder if it's possible to mention this in the search screen?

I added OWP to the wiki Glossary, but I don't know how to make it show a tooltip.
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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #34 on: April 13, 2010, 01:44:23 PM »
OWP is an Orbital Weapons Platform. I think it originated with the Starfire fiction by David Weber

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #35 on: December 08, 2010, 09:54:31 PM »
I'm a newbie, but could we get the abbreviations in the population and productions tab?

-Research Tab-
Right now I'm stuck on Add RL and Remove RL and how it works.  I'm assuming this is meaning Research Labs.

-GUI Training-
TP I am assuming means Training Points.

Side question. . .
Is there a tutorial explaining the industry better? I read all the tutorials in the 12 Tutorials section, but it's all a bit vague still.
 

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #36 on: January 04, 2011, 10:39:10 AM »
I'm a noob myself, but here's what I understood.  Add and remove RL add or remove a research lab from the selected research project.  Useful if you just build a new lab for exemple.

TP does mean training points.  Each facility produce 100 of them a year.
 

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #37 on: March 12, 2011, 03:15:51 PM »
I saw mentioned in the tips for new players thread the abbreviation "CF"

. . .  construction factory?
 

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #38 on: March 12, 2011, 03:21:13 PM »
I saw mentioned in the tips for new players thread the abbreviation "CF"

. . .  construction factory?

Probably.

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #39 on: July 11, 2011, 08:00:44 PM »
What is the means of PPV in the class design sheet?
 

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #40 on: July 11, 2011, 08:45:01 PM »
What is the means of PPV in the class design sheet?

Protection Point Valuen (or something like that).  You planetary populations demand protection when they get above a certain size.  This is how much one unit of that class will contribute.

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #41 on: July 13, 2011, 02:37:09 PM »
Experience will teach you to build FARPs. I usually build them in systems 3 jumps from home along the chains. Further FARPs are built 3 jumps from the previous ring, etc.

And a FARP can be anything that supplies. A couple of fuel harvesters marked as tankers make a good fuel resupply point.

FARP = ?
 

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #42 on: July 13, 2011, 02:42:16 PM »
FARP = ?
Forward Area Refueling Point.  Extend this to any place you have set up for ships to refuel especially.  Hopefully if it near a combat front then a place that not only has fuel but maintenance and some missiles.  If I have a big empire with multiple fronts I will often establish one of these near the front and use obslete missiles in it's stockpile.  This way they can rearm in an emergency but I don't worry about the missile stockpile falling into enemy hands either as they are out of date.

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #43 on: July 13, 2011, 04:25:08 PM »
Forward Area Refueling Point.  Extend this to any place you have set up for ships to refuel especially.  Hopefully if it near a combat front then a place that not only has fuel but maintenance and some missiles.  If I have a big empire with multiple fronts I will often establish one of these near the front and use obslete missiles in it's stockpile.  This way they can rearm in an emergency but I don't worry about the missile stockpile falling into enemy hands either as they are out of date.

Brian
I'dve said "Forward Area Resupply Point" as you tend to do more than refuel. :)

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Re: Glossary of Abbreviations?
« Reply #44 on: July 14, 2011, 08:01:16 AM »
I'dve said "Forward Area Resupply Point" as you tend to do more than refuel. :)

From my days in attack helicopter operations.... Forward Arming and Refueling Point.
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