Jargon

Who-a-whatta? Eh? AC? Aggro?
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AC - Armour Class - The measurement of how effective armour is. The greater the AC number, the more effective it is.
Adv - Adventurer.
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.
ARK - Advisors of Rubi-Ka - Volunteers (players) performing a number of tasks, e.g. creating events on Rubi-Ka. Read more about them on the official ARK web site .
BRB - Be Right Back (or Bath Room Break).
Buffs - Beneficial nano programs used to increase stats or abilities.
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.
CC - Crowd Control - Handling a crowd of enemies through the use of different nano programs, e.g. snare, root, calm and fear programs.
CL - Crowd Limiting - A system preventing huge crowds from gathering, to ensure better game performance. Sometimes referred to as CC.
Crat - Bureaucrat.
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.
Debuff - Nano programs or items used to decrease stats or abilities.
Ding - An exclamation used to explain that you levelled.
Doc - Doctor.
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.
Enf - Enforcer.
Engi - Engineer.
FC - Funcom.
FPS - Mostly used as Frames Per Second but also for First Person Shooter (or action games).
Gimp - Expression used about a poorly developed or poorly performing character. Sometimes used as an insult.
Grats - Congratulations.
HOT - Healing Over Time - Usually relating to Nano's or Items that steadily provide healing over a given time.
HP - Hit points. Also referred to as a players health.
IC - In Character - Talking as if you were your character, not as yourself, i.e. role-playing.
IP - Improvement Points (used to improve skills).
IPR - IP Reallocation - Resetting skills to retrieve used IP, which can then be used on other 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. If you are severely disliked by a monster it probably considers you KOS.
KS - Kill Steal - The act of taking a kill from another player that has already initiated combat (Very much looked down on).
LC - Land Control - A feature allowing organizations to own land through building notum mining towers on it.
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.
LFT - Looking For Team
LOL - Laughs Out Loud
Lvl - Level
MA - Martial Artist.
Mish - Mission.
MMORPG - Massive/Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
Mobs - Originally meaning MOBile or MOBile creature, the meaning has basically mutated to mean all monsters.
MP - Meta-Physicist.
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 Nano Program.
NCU - Nano Containment Unit. Defines the number of friendly nano programs (e.g. buffs and HOTs) 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.
NT - Nano-Technician.
NW - Notum Wars, the first booster pack for Anarchy Online.
OE - Over-Equipping - Wearing / wielding an item which you do not corrently meet the requirements for, though you did at the time of equipping it. The item might perform under par when Over-Equipped. Not all items are affected by Over-Equipping.
OOC - Out Of Character. Saying or doing something that is not role-play. Mostly used by role-players, as they sometimes need to say something that relates to the real world.
OT - Omni-Tek.
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.
QL - Quality level.
Reclaim - Reclaim Terminal - A storage for picking up your items after dying. Most items will be moved to such a terminal upon dying, but only if the character is at least level 10.
Res - Resurrection - Being reconstructed near a Reclaim Terminal after dying.
Res Shock - Resurrection Shock - Temporary penalties on all skills and abilities as a result of dying. Wears off over a few minutes, and does not occur for characters below level 15.
ROFLOL - Rolling on Floor, Laughing out Loud
RK1, RK2 - old names for the dimensions, meaning Rubi-Ka 1 and 2. RK1 is now named Atlantean, and RK2 is Rimor.
RL - Real Life
RP - Roleplay / roleplaying
RST - Rubi-Ka Standard Time (GMT + 1)
Scan - the act of saving your character at a scanning terminal. "I need to go scan"
SL - Shadowlands, the upcoming expansion pack for Anarchy Online.
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.
Support Profession - Used to refer to a profession that may help a team in a variety of ways, and is not focused on one specific task such as healing or doing damage. Examples of a support profession are Bureaucrat, Engineer and Meta-Physicist.
Tank - An Enforcer or other character with a high ability to take a beating, and often the ability to taunt the enemy. Used as human shield for others in combat. Also known as a Meatshield.
Twinking - The act of using one higher level character to equip a lower level character with higher level equipment or money.
Whom-Pah - The name given to teleporters located throughout Rubi-Ka. This name was given due to the sound the Teleporter makes when in operation.
WTA - Want to auction (sell to highest bidder).
WTB - Want to buy.
WTS - Want to sell.
XP - Experience Points (used for leveling).
Zoning - Moving between playfields, e.g from your apartment to the backyard, or from one outdoor area to another.