Abbreviations

Jim W · November 23, 1999, 22:12

I get very confused when people talk in abbreviations, and I don't know most of them.

I already know OCC; One City Challenge. (Heck, twenty cities is a challenge for me still!)

But what is ICS?

If someone will send me a list of Abbreviationss and what they stand for, I promise that I will save them and hold onto them so I won't have to ask again.

JimW

johnmcd · November 24, 1999, 05:36

Hi, you might want to check this thread from when I was little. http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/HT...tml?date=10:46
I hope that works, if not it lives in strategy and is called acronyms. You should find in about the last 45 days.
ICS is Infinite City Strategy/ Sleaze.

November 24, 1999, 05:52

No harm in having a thread like this on top, I guess. Here are some to get the list started. Also, a lot of the regular posters have their usernames abbreviated when referred to by other posters.

ICS = Infinite City Sleaze, a strategy that involves building scores of tiny citys one square apart
MP = Multiplayer, Manhattan Project, Marketplace, Manufacturing Plant, (Marco Polo's),
SP = Single Player
AI = Artificial Intelligence, the computer opponent (more appropriately Artificial Idiocy)
AC = Alpha Centauri (in Civ II)
SS = Space Ship
HG = Hanging Gardens
GL = Great Library
GW = Great Wall
Col = Colossus
CO = Copernicus' Observatory
KRC = King Richard's Crusade
MPE = Marco Polo's Embassy
STWA = Sun Tzu's War Academy
ST = Shakespeare's Theatre, Sun Tzu
MC = Michelangelo's Chapel
ASTC = Adam Smith's Trading Company
DW = Darwin's Voyage
ET = Eiffel Tower
LW = Leonardo's Workshop
INC = Isaac Newton's College
WS = Women's Suffrage
SoL = Statue of Liberty
UN = United Nations
CfC = Cure for Cancer
ACS = Apolyton Civilization Site
OT = Off Topic Forum
ToT = Test of Time
SMAC = Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
CTP = Call To Power
MGE = Multiplayer Gold Edition
CiC = Conflicts in Civilization

November 24, 1999, 11:50

AS: artificial stupidity (if you have a really stupid computer)

Jim W · November 24, 1999, 22:28

Thanks very much.

JimW

fay_mc · November 25, 1999, 17:30

I think my PC has a particularly severe case of AS

War4ever · November 25, 1999, 20:20

AI Artificial Idiot
MWHC My Wife Hates Civ

Hasdrubal · July 13, 2000, 20:23

I thought it best to answer a question from another thread here, digging this old thread up to add some more abbreviations.

WLTxD - We Love The x Day.
SSC - Super Science City.
FW - Fantastic Worlds.
CiC - Conflicts in Civilization.

tonic · July 14, 2000, 19:30

With the number of challenges being explored (see thread http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/HT...ml?date=02:29) there's bound to be more. One not listed here is:

SOC: Space Odyssey Challenge.

And watch out for
FOCC: my dubbing of Tom dM's tough Fundamentalist OCC (debut in OCC12).

Scouse Gits · July 15, 2000, 06:49

... and watch out for references to posters such as AH = Alexander's Horse ...

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The ANZAC · October 13, 2000, 18:29

well, Johnmcd's link doesn't work, so I'll ask here: What does IIRC mean? I see it a lot but I don't know what it is.

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ColdWizard · October 13, 2000, 18:34

If I Remember Correctly