Noobers Guide to CoH Abbreviation and Jargon
By
absinthe182,
Posted on: 2004-04-30 08:46 in Player Guides
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We came up with a new one last night (new for our team that is)
TFY = Alternative to RDY (Ready) when typing really fast. Pronounced "Tiffy"
Now when our team asks if everyone's ready we respond with TFY.
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Without trying to sound cocky... hitting the F7 key is even faster. 
You forgot Blind Invite.
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We came up with a new one last night (new for our team that is)
TFY = Alternative to RDY (Ready) when typing really fast. Pronounced "Tiffy"
Now when our team asks if everyone's ready we respond with TFY.
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Without trying to sound cocky... hitting the F7 key is even faster.
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True. It would be if everyone remembered all of the F-key settings.
What about the word "con" as in "a mob 'cons' blue to me"
I understand the reference, but what is 'con' short for? Or is it not an abbreviation at all?
You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame
Con is shortened from Consider, which was a term used in a lot of text muds for the process of working out how tough a mob was in relation to your character.
This often wasn't an automatic process, but a skill that you had to use on each mob and not always possessed by all character classes.
regards, Screwloose.
"I am not young enough to know everything."
How to Look Stuff Up Yourself - It's Fun and Easy
Looking for Powers Numbers try City of Data.
For Fraks sake read the Guides and FAQs
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Con is shortened from Consider, which was a term used in a lot of text muds for the process of working out how tough a mob was in relation to your character.
This often wasn't an automatic process, but a skill that you had to use on each mob and not always possessed by all character classes.
regards, Screwloose.
"I am not young enough to know everything."
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Thank you very much for that quick response. Not being a gamer, I would never have come up with that. The closest I got was Concept. But it didn't make much sense.
You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame
Fantastic post.. thank you very much... now if someone could just tell me what "six slotting" a power means... I think I know... but I hate to assume
Oftentimes I see the phrase min/max, and to be honest with you, I still don't know what it means (specifically) or where it came from.
Perhaps that could be added?
six slotting means ... putting 6 slots into a power. Basically since 6 slots is the most you can put in a power it means putting as much Enhancement into a power as you can.
You will want to do this with powers that you find particularly effective for your playstyle.
Powergamers use it as a short hand which roughly translates as "this power is the uberest".
Min / Max is the philosophy of Minimum investment for Maximum gain.
Basically it assumes that all abilities have some sort of break even point at which they produce the maximum effect for the investment made to get there and above which you get less return for your investment.
For individual powers this is not hard to work out, but sometimes combinations of powers give additional effects by synergy and start to generate enormous mathematical proofs that doing thing in X fashion produces 2% more efficiency that doing it Y way.
People who need to know that their character is absolutely as powerful as it is possible to be often get involved in this sort of shenanigans.
regards, Screwloose.
"I am not young enough to know everything."
How to Look Stuff Up Yourself - It's Fun and Easy
Looking for Powers Numbers try City of Data.
For Fraks sake read the Guides and FAQs
Global Chat Channels - Australia
I cry every time someone says gtg to mean "good to go." It has always (and will always, to me) mean "got to go." The confusion that has resulted in people trying to use it with this new meaning drives me insane.
Being new to the game Ive found this post/guide very useful so thank you to all who have helped. I do have one question, what is H/O (HO)? I assume it's similar to S/O (SO) or D/O (DO)s. 
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Being new to the game Ive found this post/guide very useful so thank you to all who have helped. I do have one question, what is H/O (HO)? I assume it's similar to S/O (SO) or D/O (DO)s.
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Since no one has answered this yet I'll give it a shot. Maybe wrong but someone can post the corrections if I am.
It's a Hamidon enhancement. sometimes called a Hammi-o. You get them from random drops in Hamidon battle. I understand they give a bigger boost to powers and usually (always?) work on two aspects like damage and accuracy. So they are more effective per slot. I haven't done any Hamidon Raids yet. My highest is only 26th level kin nrg defender. Maybe I'll put aside my alt-itis and level one up to experience a raid first hand.
R U HEALR => when said to a Defender, guarantees instantly being added to their /ignore list
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farm - High level char power leveling lower level char
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'Farm' - Actually this means repeating a particular portion of a mission or process to horde its rewards BUT NOT completing it to its entirety. An example would be the Sewer Trial. Though now corrected, a team could take on the Sewer Trial and arrest only the Kraken. At the time, Kraken were avg 60k-70k a pop. Once all the Kraken were arrested the team would exit and fail the trial on purpose only to respawn it again and repeat the process.
Though not always negative, 'farming' could also mean a state of play. " I need to spend tonite farming influence so I can make that costume change I have been aching to do."
Nice Post i finally got around to reading it IYKWIM.
New to CoH, love it btw.... good write up on the acronyms.
However I have a correction, its a historical lesson to some as it is not so well known anymore.
w00t Cool
woot Cool
Either w00t is actually an acronym for "We Own (the) Other Team". Earliest representation I recall was during some 2am.com games back in the mid to late 90's.
It represents winners or super accomplishments in gaming.
Also represented by its stick figure form \o/ (a little man with arms raised in victory.
I would also like to add \o or lo, which both are double edged. 1 correct asumption is a little man waving to you as a greeting, another correct way is to see it as the letter "L" and "O" which combined quickly say "Hello".
Informative for some perhaps... game one \o_
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R U HEALR => when said to a Defender, guarantees instantly being added to their /ignore list
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And when said to a non-Defender, guarantees instantly being made fun of for several minutes over the broadcast channel.
lmao
PS: Someone asked me, as a Fire Tank, if I was a healer once because he noticed I had a power called "Healing Flames"... lmao
Good Thread -- a few more I've seen...
anchor - a mob that is debuffed (usually by Defenders) which also affects
other nearby mobs and lasts till cancelled, caster runs out of end, or a
n00b kills it - usually, really irritating your Defender...
camp - hanging around a specific spot waiting for a particular mob spawn ie.
'Let's camp Royal Refinery for the Paladin'.
dc'd - disconnected
Dirt Nap - a player who got killed by a mob
Dwarf - one of the forms a Kheldian can use.
faces - Banished Pantheon Spirit Masks (they're a badge) ie. 'Let's go
kill some faces at the DA gate'
gtg - Got to Go (no question)
gd2g - Good to Go
herd - tactic used to gather large groups of villains for nukes.
Kheld - a Kheldian AT (Peacebringer or Warshade)
Lobster - slang for Dwarf (sometimes you'll see Crab instead).
Mort - A Vahzilok Mortificator
Ock, Octo - Lusca the (monster) Octopus in IP
pl - Power Level
pl'r - a player who power levels
squid - another Kheldian form, or slang for the AT in general
squishy - a player with very weak defense - ie. 'Don't let anyone melee
our Blaster -- he's squishy'
SWC - Skyway City
tank - The archtype, or as a verb 'to obtain mob aggro, and/or herd mobs"
And last, one of my own 
biff - to de-buff a mob (the opposite of buffing a hero). ie. 'I'll biff
the Mort, you guys hit the Eidolan - kill the Mort anchor last'
Regards,
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I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is definitely better.
Light is faster than sound - that's why some people look smart until they speak.
For every seller who leaves the market dirty stinkin' rich,
there's a buyer who leaves the market dirty stinkin' IOed. - Obitus.
Thanks Quality_Control! I knew that couldn't have meant Cool...Now I know what means when I use it! 
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Maiden Victory 50 MASD Scrapper
Brazen Prime 41 Fireenergy tank
Lady Stratega 50 FireSS tank
& Tons of other Alts
I don't know if this has been answered (too lazy too look all through the thread) but "Illinois Nazis" was used in the film The Blues Brothers (a group of Nazis were chasing them) The 5th Collumn are Naziesque, hence the comparison
w00t is usually used in CoH to mean "awesome" or sweet.
like "w00t! i got a badge!" would be sweet! i got... not cool! i got!
it isn't merely interesting, it makes you full of joy.
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Being new to the game Ive found this post/guide very useful so thank you to all who have helped. I do have one question, what is H/O (HO)? I assume it's similar to S/O (SO) or D/O (DO)s.
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gee i thought that h/o meant hold on?!?!
My 50's:
Fiya Man: Fiya/ Fiya/ Flame Blaster -Protector
Ethros: Dark/Dark/Dark Defender - Protector
Ja-Ja: Fire/Kin/Earth Controller- Protector
Shadow Flux: Fortunata
Daily Forecast: Fire/Storm/Mace Corruptor- Infinity
"XP is for sissies. Real men collect debt." -Adelie
@Gammos
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farm - High level char power leveling lower level char
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........no one will miss you when u die......
My 50's:
Fiya Man: Fiya/ Fiya/ Flame Blaster -Protector
Ethros: Dark/Dark/Dark Defender - Protector
Ja-Ja: Fire/Kin/Earth Controller- Protector
Shadow Flux: Fortunata
Daily Forecast: Fire/Storm/Mace Corruptor- Infinity
"XP is for sissies. Real men collect debt." -Adelie
@Gammos
Here's one you forgot .
BOHICA - (bo - heek' - ah) - Acronym. Stands for "Bend Over Here It Comes Again". Example of Usage: "Hey everyone, it's patch day. BOHICA!"
I usually see PP referring to Paragon Protectors (PP in there).
Con: v. Determine (consider) the game's reported difficulty of an enemy (Let me con those guys... looks like yellows).
n. The difficulty the game has reported for an enemy (group of blue cons over there)
pills: Inspirations (got any purple pills?)
AV: Arch Villian.
CF: Crey's Folley
PI: Peregrine Island
Portal: A passage that can be used by enemies or players that either summons more enemies, or allows players to pass to another zone or mission
Inf: Influence
Nuke: A type of attack that does devestating AoE damage, but drains the player of all endurance when used
KS: Killsteal
Spam: 1) to use a click power rapidly and continuously (spamming holds).
2) excessive chatter, especially on broadcast or request channels.
wipeout: When an entire team of players is defeated.
YW: You're Welcome
blapper: A blaster that spends more time than the average blaster within melee range of mobs.
troll: A poster or player who attempts to incite others into arguing about some subject.
troller: A controller
WoW: World of Warcraft
Log: logoff from the server (gotta log, see ya tomorrow)
And there's a zillion ones for powers, but that would almost need a seperate thread.