Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Jarhead0331 on January 01, 2010, 10:49:31 AM
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Does one exist? The UI, menus, and tutorials use a staggering amount of abbreviations...sometimes, there is no explanation of what is being abbreviated and its not always self explanatory...if a glossary exists where is it located and if not, I hope thats something that can be put together eventually.
S/F
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Does one exist? The UI, menus, and tutorials use a staggering amount of abbreviations...sometimes, there is no explanation of what is being abbreviated and its not always self explanatory...if a glossary exists where is it located and if not, I hope thats something that can be put together eventually.
I think the problem is that many of us have got so used to all to all the jargon and abbreviations we don't even realise when we are using them.
I'll start posting a list in this thread so if anyone has an abbreviation they need translating, post it in this thread and I will keep editing the master list contained in the next post
Steve
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Placeholder Post for abbreviation list
AM: Automated Mine or Anti-matter
CF: Construction Factory
CIWS: Close in Weapon System. An automated phalanx-type system
ECCM: Electronic Counter Counter Measures. Counters the effects of ECM
ECM: Electronic Counter-measures
EM: Electromagnetic. Used for EM sensors, EM signature, etc
GB Engine: See FAC Engine
GB: Gunboat. Another term used for Fast Attack Craft (FAC)
GC: Gauss Cannon
FAC: Fast Attack Craft. In Aurora terms, usually used to refer to a small spacecraft of about 500-1000 tons that is equipped with a Fast Attack Craft Engine. Sometimes called a Gunboat
FAC Engine: Sometimes referred to as a GB Engine. This is a high-powered engine that has double the normal output but uses 10x fuel. Only one can be mounted on a spacecraft
FC: Fire Control
GFTF: Ground Forces Training Facility
HS: Hull Space. Ships are measured in hull spaces, which are 50 tons each. So a size 100 ship is 5000 tons.
HTK: Hits to Kill: How much damage is required to automatically destroy a ship system. If less damage than the HTK rating is inflicted, the chance of destruction is damage/HTK.
IFR: Incremental Failure Rate. This is the chance of a system failure on a ship during a 5-day increment. On the Ship Summary it shows the current IFR based on the ship's maintenance clock. On the Class Summary it shows the failure rate for a ship with one year on the clock.
JP: Jump point. Occasionally referred to as Warp Point
LP: Lagrange Point. An intra-system jump point found in the L5 lagrange point of super-jovians or massive gas giants (about sixty degrees behind the planet in its orbit)
MSP: Missile Size Point. The way in which the size of missiles, or the amount of space deciated to missile components, is usually described. 1 hull space (50 tons) is equal to 20 MSP. 1 MSP is equal to 1/20th of a hull space, or about 2.5 tons.
MSP: Maintenance Supply Point. MSP are used by ships to fix maintenance failures and carry out repairs.
NPR: Non-player Race. A computer-controlled Empire
OWP: Orbital Weapons Platform. Essentially a ship with no engines in orbit of a planet.
PD: Point Defense ?
PDC: Planetary Defence Centre. A base on a planetary surface. Designed in the Class Design window in a similar way to a ship. The difference is that the Type dropdown (middle top) is set to PDC instead of Ship. Built by industry rather than Shipyards
ROF: Rate of Fire
RP: Research Points
SM: Spacemaster. The referee in a multii-player game
SM Mode: Accessible via Ctrl-S on the main menu. Allows you to see and do more than you normally would as a player
SY: Shipyard
TCS: Target Cross-Section. The size of target for the purposes of active sensors
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FAC = ?
PDC = ?
Just downloaded Aurora after seeing the thread at The Wargamer. Really lost right now but hopefully it will make sense soon. Thanks for what looks like a fun game.
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FAC = ?
PDC = ?
Just downloaded Aurora after seeing the thread at The Wargamer. Really lost right now but hopefully it will make sense soon. Thanks for what looks like a fun game.
Fast Attack Craft and Planetary Defence Centre. I have updated the main list
Steve
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Thanks...and sorry for the double posts. I was confused by the approval delay and thought my initial posts got lost.
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Thanks...and sorry for the double posts. I was confused by the approval delay and thought my initial posts got lost.
No problem. The approval process is only for the first 5 posts just to make sure we don't get spam
Steve
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Thanks...and sorry for the double posts. I was confused by the approval delay and thought my initial posts got lost.
No problem. The approval process is only for the first 5 posts just to make sure we don't get spam
Steve
Understandable...hopefully stupid questions don't count as spam, because with this beast of a game, I'm going to have a lot of them!
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Stickied to keep near the top.
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I've got way too much time on my hands.
I've updated the wiki to include a glossary page. This page is accessible and readable as a full page. However (and this is the sweet part), if you are reading another page, and you come across a term (defined in the glossary), your mouse will change to include a ? on it. After a second or so, a tooltip pops up showing you the definition.
This is easily seen at http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.ph ... sile_Ships (http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=Missile_Ships) and hovering over TCS in the ship readouts.
As with a wiki, the glossary page is editable, so feel free to add to it.
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Very nice work.
Can you add IFR and MSP to the glossary please?
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Can you add HS please?
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Does SP = Survey Points? Got my first Geo survey ship to Luna (one small step for Elmo) and it seems to be counting down SP's so I'm guessing that is what it means.
Edit - And sorry for asking this in the glossary thread but my ship completed it survey of Luna but I don't see any report specific to Luna. Do moon resources get added into the planet totals?
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Edit - And sorry for asking this in the glossary thread but my ship completed it survey of Luna but I don't see any report specific to Luna. Do moon resources get added into the planet totals?
I'm hardly an expert, but that data should be contained within the mineral summary sub-tab in the F2 Economics Window. someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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I think you mean the Minerals sub tab in the System Map (which is F3). I have looked there and on the Geological Survey Report but don't see any results for Luna or a lot of asteroids that we have explored since my last post. I "assume" that means they don't contain any Trans-Newtonian minerals but I never did see any notice of success or failure from the surveys which is what has me a bit confused.
Edit - OK we did just get a successful survey on an asteroid so the others must have come up empty. Perhaps there is a report somewhere that I'm overlooking. Sorry for spamming the Glossary thread with this. Please feel free to delete my posts here is you like.
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Very nice work.
Can you add IFR and MSP to the glossary please?
MSP: Maintenance Supply Points. The number of supply units a ship carries for repairs.
IFR: ??
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Can you add HS please?
HS: Hull Space. The amount of space a particular hull has. This is the tonnage/50.
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I think you mean the Minerals sub tab in the System Map (which is F3). I have looked there and on the Geological Survey Report but don't see any results for Luna or a lot of asteroids that we have explored since my last post. I "assume" that means they don't contain any Trans-Newtonian minerals but I never did see any notice of success or failure from the surveys which is what has me a bit confused.
Edit - OK we did just get a successful survey on an asteroid so the others must have come up empty. Perhaps there is a report somewhere that I'm overlooking. Sorry for spamming the Glossary thread with this. Please feel free to delete my posts here is you like.
SP does mean Survey Points.
Hit F9 and look on the front tab. Planetary bodies will have an M or S in the first column. The M signifies the presence of minerals (click the line to see what all is there), and S signifies a survey has been conducted, but no minerals are present.
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Thanks Erik.
Also, I saw IFR somewhere but can't recall where now. Being a private pilot it means I Follow Roads to me but assume it has some other meaning in the game.
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Thanks Erik.
Also, I saw IFR somewhere but can't recall where now. Being a private pilot it means I Follow Roads to me but assume it has some other meaning in the game.
It's on the ship displays, next to the annual failure rate. I think it means something like individual failure rate, but not certain at all.
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I think you mean the Minerals sub tab in the System Map (which is F3). I have looked there and on the Geological Survey Report but don't see any results for Luna or a lot of asteroids that we have explored since my last post. I "assume" that means they don't contain any Trans-Newtonian minerals but I never did see any notice of success or failure from the surveys which is what has me a bit confused.
Edit - OK we did just get a successful survey on an asteroid so the others must have come up empty. Perhaps there is a report somewhere that I'm overlooking. Sorry for spamming the Glossary thread with this. Please feel free to delete my posts here is you like.
Look on the system screen (F9, or open the galaxy map F11 and double-click on the system you want). Every body in the system will have a survey state; IIRC they are "-" for unsurveyed, "S" for surveyed and no minerals found, and "M" for surveyed and minerals found.
John
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Got it. Thanks guys.
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Does SP = Survey Points? Got my first Geo survey ship to Luna (one small step for Elmo) and it seems to be counting down SP's so I'm guessing that is what it means.
Edit - And sorry for asking this in the glossary thread but my ship completed it survey of Luna but I don't see any report specific to Luna. Do moon resources get added into the planet totals?
SP is survey points and the number counting down is the survey points remaining. Not every planet has minerals. If there are any, you should see the report in the Events log (Ctrl-F3). No report = no minerals. You can check the minerals for the current system on the Minerals tab of the Sidebar in the System Map. Also try the Geographical Survey Report (using the icon on the System map) on which you can do searches for all of known space.
Steve
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Thanks Erik.
Also, I saw IFR somewhere but can't recall where now. Being a private pilot it means I Follow Roads to me but assume it has some other meaning in the game.
I was thinking about the same lines since I don't recall seeing IFR in the program. BTW, you really shouldn't rely on the iron compass when in the soup....
Though thinking about it, maybe there should be a VFR combat option. "Hold fire until you can see the whites of their maneuvering thrusters!" That would be a furball....
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Thanks Erik.
Also, I saw IFR somewhere but can't recall where now. Being a private pilot it means I Follow Roads to me but assume it has some other meaning in the game.
I was thinking about the same lines since I don't recall seeing IFR in the program. BTW, you really shouldn't rely on the iron compass when in the soup....
Though thinking about it, maybe there should be a VFR combat option. "Hold fire until you can see the whites of their maneuvering thrusters!" That would be a furball....
IFR is Incremental Failure Rate. It is on the maintenance line in the class/ship summary and is the chance of a system failure in any single 5-day increment
Steve
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What is CIWS? Thanks.
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What is CIWS? Thanks.
It is Close in Weapon System.
The way Steve has it set up it is a self contained point defense gauss cannon turret. It mounts two gauss cannon with a 50% base to hit chance, beam fire control and an active sensor to detect missiles, and if you want eccm as well. All of it is shrunk down to a system that is 6-8 hull size total. It only defends the mounting ship against missiles however, it will not protect any other ships, nor can it be used against an enemy ship. It is very handy for a backup point defense, especially on missile ships which don't have the tonnage for a regular point defense set up. As a basic point defense setup would otherwise be at least 4hs for the fire control, .5hs for the active sensor, and between 3-6hs for the weapon in a turret. Even on beam ships it is not a bad idea to put one or two on as they are totally self-contained and a lucky hit on your point defense fire control does not leave you defenceless against missile attacks
Brian
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What is CIWS? Thanks.
Close in Weapon System. Here is the thread that describes it:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1691 (http://aurora.pentarch.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1691)
Steve
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Thanks guys.
Edit - OK after reading about CIWS can you also include the following in the Glossary. Some of these are pretty obvious but might be worth adding anyway.
GC = Gauss Canon ?
ROF - Rate of Fire
ECCM = Electronic Counter Counter Measures
PD = Point Defense ?
FC = Fire Control ?
RP = Resource Points ?
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Thanks guys.
Edit - OK after reading about CIWS can you also include the following in the Glossary. Some of these are pretty obvious but might be worth adding anyway.
GC = Gauss Canon ?
ROF - Rate of Fire
ECCM = Electronic Counter Counter Measures
PD = Point Defense ?
FC = Fire Control ?
RP = Resource Points ?
Added all these. RP Is Research Points, unless you have seen it somewhere else in a context where that doesn't sound right
Steve
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Thanks Steve. Research Points sounds right. I was only guessing based on the CIWS thread.
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What's OWP? Off-World Platform?
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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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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 (http://aurora.pentarch.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1834) (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 (http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=Glossary), but I don't know how to make it show a tooltip.
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OWP is an Orbital Weapons Platform. I think it originated with the Starfire fiction by David Weber
Steve
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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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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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I saw mentioned in the tips for new players thread the abbreviation "CF"
. . . construction factory?
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I saw mentioned in the tips for new players thread the abbreviation "CF"
. . . construction factory?
Probably.
John
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What is the means of PPV in the class design sheet?
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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.
John
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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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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.
Brian
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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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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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I recently learned the following:
MSP == Maintenance Supply Points != Missile Size Points
Ordnance transfer systems are for transferring missiles and are rated in MSP per hour.
Ships have a MSP requirement and require maintenance supplies to function properly.
Missile supply points are not interchangeable with maintenance supply points.
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I think NSP (Naval Supply Points) or SSP (Space Supply Points) would be good alternatives to MSP (Maintenance Supply Points). There really isn't any form of ship supply points that factor into anything thats not maintenance plus something like NSP is easily identifiable from GSP (Ground Supply Points).
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Starting to figure enough out to play and am having lots of fun. Reading the fiction threads / AAR’s if helping but not knowing many of the acronyms is slowing me down. Sure wish the Search function worked for these things.
What is “GPS” as in MK I Light Cruiser Active Augur Array (1) GPS 7200 Range 52.8m km Resolution 120
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And “DCR” as in Dauntless class Light Cruiser 15,000 tons 457 Crew 2,178.8 BP TCS 300 TH 1,500 EM 0 5000 km/s Armour 6-54 Shields 0-0 HTK 92 Sensors 5/6/0/0 DCR 12 PPV 72
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Thanks!
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Starting to figure enough out to play and am having lots of fun. Reading the fiction threads / AAR’s if helping but not knowing many of the acronyms is slowing me down. Sure wish the Search function worked for these things.
What is “GPS” as in MK I Light Cruiser Active Augur Array (1) GPS 7200 Range 52.8m km Resolution 120
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And “DCR” as in Dauntless class Light Cruiser 15,000 tons 457 Crew 2,178.8 BP TCS 300 TH 1,500 EM 0 5000 km/s Armour 6-54 Shields 0-0 HTK 92 Sensors 5/6/0/0 DCR 12 PPV 72
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Thanks!
GPS is the strength of the active sensor emissions for detection purposes. I can't actually remember what it stands for :)
DCR is damage control rating.
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Starting to figure enough out to play and am having lots of fun. Reading the fiction threads / AAR’s if helping but not knowing many of the acronyms is slowing me down. Sure wish the Search function worked for these things.
What is “GPS” as in MK I Light Cruiser Active Augur Array (1) GPS 7200 Range 52.8m km Resolution 120
?
And “DCR” as in Dauntless class Light Cruiser 15,000 tons 457 Crew 2,178.8 BP TCS 300 TH 1,500 EM 0 5000 km/s Armour 6-54 Shields 0-0 HTK 92 Sensors 5/6/0/0 DCR 12 PPV 72
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Thanks!
GPS is the strength of the active sensor emissions for detection purposes. I can't actually remember what it stands for :)
DCR is damage control rating.
GPS = Gravitational Pulse Strength?