Ack - Exclamation used to show fear or surprise.
AFK - Away From Keyboard
Aggro - Aggro is when a monster turns aggressive towards you. "Ack! The Slack Tentacle Mutant Aggro'd on me!"
AO - Anarchy Online - Let's hope you knew this one.
Bind - An expression from Everquest. The effect of a bind is to decide where a resurrected character is respawned. Scan in AO has some of the same effect.
BRB - Be Right Back [Bath Room Break]
Buffs - Beneficial nano spells or items used to increase stats or abilities.
Burst - A type of high-damage attack that will empty a clip into your enemy.
Camping - The act of sitting and waiting for a monster, item or NPC to spawn, usually in order to kill them for experience, items or money.
Circle of Death - Used in grouping, when one member of the team, usually the puller, runs around in a circle around the group while they shoot at the mob. The monster will eventually switch over to attack someone else, and then they will run around the group in a circle of death, etc. Can also be used to describe surrounding a monster in a "circle" and attacking from all angles.
Creds - Credits, money in AO.
DD - Direct Damage - Nano's or Items that do damage directly to the target.
Death Loop = what happens to a player who is unfortunate enough to save at a scanner in hostile territory. If the character is then killed he will reappear near the scanner and more than likely be killed again by the local guards, killed again, comes back, killed again, etc.
DOT - Damage Over Time - Usually relating to Nano's or Items that do not do Direct Damage but instead they steadily do damage over a given time.
FPS - First Person Shooter (or action games)
Hack'n'Slash - A sub-genre of RPG games or a playing style, in which the objective is to kill, kill, kill with your swords, knifes, maces etc. This is often used derogatory about games that lack story or features to make role-playing interesting.
IP - Improvement Points (used in skills).
KITing - Killing In Transit - attacking a monster, and then moving out of it's reach, to avoid damage. Then attacking again, and so forth. Also called Kiting or Kitting.
KOS - Kill On Sight. This is a term used to define your standing with another creature. If you are severely disliked by a faction, NPC or monster you are probably KOS.
KS -Kill Steal - This is the act of taking a kill from another player that has already initiated combat (Very much looked down on).
LD - Link Dead, losing connection to the server. Also, "Link Death", a death attributed to going Link Dead.
Leveling - When you get enough XP, you will reach a new level. This gives you certain advantages, like more IP to spend on skills.
LFG - Looking For Group
LOL - Laughs Out Loud
MMORPG - Massive/Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
Mobs - Originally meaning MOBile or MOBile creature, the meaning has basically mutated to mean all monsters.
Mule - Using a specialized character within a certain area to help out one of your other characters. One example is to use IP-points on specialising in making implants, and giving this to another character that is specialised in fighting.
Nano - Term used for abilities using Nanobots. Shortened term for Nanoformula.
NCU - Nano Containment Unit. Defines the number of friendly nano programs (buffs) your character can have at any given time.
Newbie - A new player to the game, also called noob or n00b.
NPC - Non Player Character - Any character in the game that is not controledl by a player of the game.
OOC - Out Of Character. Saying or doing something that is not roleplay. Mostly used by roleplayers, as they sometimes need to say something that relates to the real world.
Pet - Player controlled NPC
Powerleveling - Playing the game with focus on finding the fastest and most efficient way to raise in level.
Pulling - Targeting a creature, in order to make it move towards you. Often used in groups. One person is the "puller", and he/her pulls the monster in the direction of the group, who waits [around the corner] to kill the monster.
PvP - Player vs Player combat.
QA - Quality Assurance. The internal department that works with testing the versions before it is put out on the servers.
RFLOL - Rolling on Floor, Laughing out Loud
RL - Real Life
RP - Roleplay / roleplaying
Scan - the act of saving your character at a scanning terminal. "I need to go scan"
Social - Used to describe creatures that help out each other. i.e. if you attack a rhino beater and another rhino type is around, then that second rhino will attack you also, because rhinomen are social.
Tank - An Enforcer or other character with good armor and melee expertise. Used as humanshield for nano wielders, who are more vulnerable to melee attack. Also known as a Meatshield.
Tank Mages - a term originated in Ultima Online, where mages could become so powerful it upset game balance, because they had both good armor, and good offensive weapons.
Twinking - The act of using one higher level character to equip a lower level character with higher level equipment or money.
Whompa - The name given to teleporters located throughout Rubi-Ka. This name was given due to the sound the Teleporter makes when in operation.
XP - Experience Points (used for leveling).
