Having gone through several topics, it reminded me of the jargon and slang we used
back in the good ol' days. The wiki I found about PS jargon didn't include most of the jargon, so I made a little list of most of the PS terminology, but I feel I'm missing out on some... anyone?
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Elmo/TR: Terran Republic player
Barney/VS: Vanu Sovereignty player
Smurf/NC: New Conglomerate player
BR: Battle Rank
CR: Command Rank
AA: Anti-Air
AV: Anti-Vehicle
AI: Anti-Infantry
Veh/Air Term/Vterm/Aterm: Vehicle/Aircraft Terminal
Backhacking: Involves hacking a base with a defence force on it OR attack of a rear-line base by a third empire.
Ghosthacking: Involves hacking a base with no defence force on it
CC: Base/Tower Control Console
Gen: Base Generator
BD/Backdoor: Refers to the backdoor of a base/facility
Rep/Repping: The act of repairing
Glue Gun: Repair tool
Glue: Repair ("Need some glue!")
Med Juice/Engy Juice: Healing/Repairing
Cloaker/Ninja/Ghost: Infiltrator using a cloak suit
Ghosting: Seizing a continent or number of bases with no to minimum resistance.
Max crash: A tactic involving masses of MAX units assaulting a target (base/tower)
HA: Heavy Assault
JH/Noobhammer: Jackhammer (NC Heavy Assault weapon)
Mag/Magmower: Magrider (VS Tank)
MCG/McGun: Mini Chaingun (TR Heavy Assault weapon)
Bang Bus/Fun Bus: Slang for the surrenderer troop carrier
Mossie/Skeeter: Mosquito (Light Air Fighter)
Gal: Galaxy Air Transport
GG: Galaxy Gunship
Van/Vanny: Vangaurd (NC Tank)
Libby: Liberator bomber
Phant: Phantasm
AMS: Advanced Mobile Station, also known as the mobile spawn point.
ANT: Advanced Nanite Transport, energy hauler for bases.
OL: Outfit Leader
SL: Squad Leader
PL: Platoon Leader
OS: Orbital Strike
Resec: Resecuring a base
Softy: Non-max or light/medium armored infantry
Rexo: Reinforced Exo-suit / heavy armored infantry
Threeway: Battles involving all three factions
Circle Jerk: When all 3 empire are stuck on the same cont, making no progress for hours or days. Threeway meets stalemate.
Zerg: Unorganized battles where the army with the biggest numbers wins
LFS: Looking For Squad
Cap: Capturing (base/tower capture)
Cont: Continent
Camp: The act of waiting, defending or sieging an area.
Farming: the act of making easy kills
Caver: Players who spent the bulk of their play time in caves.
Hotdrop/Gal Drop: The act of dropping from a Galaxy into a "hot" zone/battlezone
(Hot)Dropper/Bailer: Someone dropping or bailing from an Air vehicle.
Jack/Jacking: Hacking an enemy vehicle
Nades: Granades
Vet: Veteran
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