EVE Lexicon

This page lists abbreviations and terms commonly used in EVE Online, aimed at new players and those unfamiliar with the terminology. Most of the terms listed here are universal across all of EVE players, but some may be relatively specialized to EVE University and may mean something slightly different to other corporations. If any of the terminology is unclear be sure to ask in-game or on the forums for more clarification.

Note: Bolded abbreviations have limited recognition across EVE, mostly due to being used specifically within EVE University or other corporations.

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o/

"Wave"

\o

"Wave back"

o7

"Salute"

7o

"Salute" (as performed by the Brave Newbies)

\o/

"Hurrah!"

*\o/*

"Cheerleader"

0.0

See Nullsec

2IC

Second-in-command, a fleet role. The 2IC is a fleet member designated to take over fleet command should the Fleet Commander be taken out of the fight.

A

AAR

1. After Action Report
2. Ancillary Armor Repairer (S, M, L can be prefixed for respective sizes.)

AB

Afterburner (see Propulsion equipment)

AC

Autocannon (see Turrets)

ACR

Ancillary Current Router (see Fitting Guidelines)

Active Module

A module that must be manually activated by the player (see Module)

ADC

Assault Damage Control

AF

Assault Frigate (ship class)

AFK

"Away from keyboard"

Aggro

Aggression

AIF

Adaptive Invulnerability Field, deprecated term for Multispectrum Shield Hardener (see tanking).

Alfa

Alternate spelling of Alpha

Align

Accelerating towards an object in preparation for warp

Aligned

The act of moving towards a warpable object at a minimum speed of 75% ready to warp to said object at a moment's notice (see alignment for more information).

Alliance

A group of Corporations

Alpha

Short for the Alpha clone state or Alpha strike

Alpha Strike

The amount of damage dealt in a single volley from firing all weapons simultaneously. Sometimes sufficient to destroy a target before it can repair the damage.

Alt

Alternate character

AMC

Averon Mining Campus (originally Amarr Mining Campus), former EVE University Campus (rolled into Main Community)

Anchor

Anchors lead fleets by manually piloting and fleet members use commands to follow them. Multiple anchors may exist for specific roles, e.g. DPS, Logi, EWAR.

Ancil

Ancillary Armor Repairer or Ancillary Shield Repairer (see Tanking)

Anoikis

See W-Space

Anomaly

Cosmic Anomaly

Anoms

See Anomaly

Arby

Arbitrator (ship)

Arty

Artillery (see Turrets)

ASB

Ancillary Shield Booster (see Tanking) (S, M, L can be prefixed for respective sizes.)

AU

Astronomical Unit, a unit of distance. 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to the Earth: 149,597,871 km.

AUR

Aurum, replaced by PLEX

AT

Alliance Tournament

Awox

To attack and destroy the ship of a pilot in the same player-run corporation without warning. (Derived from the name of the first widely known EVE pilot accused of such behavior)

AWU

 Advanced Weapon Upgrades (skill name)

B

Bait

To expose a seemingly easy target in order to lure an enemy into committing to an engagement (see Baiting)

Baltec

Ship doctrine: 425mm Railgun, dual 1600mm Armor Plate, MWD Megathron doctrine (Named after capsuleer baltec1, famous for his off-doctrine use of Megathrons, though not this particular fit)

BB

1. Blackbird
2. Battleship

BC

Battlecruiser

BCS

Ballistic Control System (previously known as Ballistic Control Unit; see Missile damage)

BCU

Ballistic Control Unit (now called Ballistic Control System; see Missile damage)

Bearing

See Carebear

Biomass

To permanently delete a character (see Biomassing)

Blap

To destroy a ship suddenly or quickly

Bling

Expensive. Typically used to refer to expensive Faction, Deadspace, or Officer modules ("bling modules"), ships that are fit with said modules ("blingy ship"), or a clone with expensive implants ("bling pod" or "bling head").

Blob

A large fleet (or in some cases, any fleet larger than the speaker's). Generally used as a pejorative term, suggesting that members of that fleet are relying on numbers to win. May also be referred to as a "zerg". May also be used as a verb, for the act of winning a fight through numbers.

Blops

Black Ops Battleships

Bloodlines

A character's familial ancestry. There are three different bloodlines to choose from during character creation for each empire.

Blue

A pilot, corporation, or alliance with positive standings. (see Rules of Engagement)

Blue Loot

Sleeper loot gotten from Sleeper wrecks and data sites. Can be sold to NPCs for ISK. Is called blue loot because of the blue icons.

BM

1. Bookmark
2. Bad Manners (in text conversations)

Bob

Bob is a player-invented deity that supposedly holds sway over wormholes and J-space.

boosh

To use a Micro Jump Field Generator to displace (part of) a fleet. See Command Destroyers.

Booster

1. Medical boosters are drugs that increase a pilots' combat or skill-training attributes for a short time.
2. A ship used to provide Command Bursts to their fleet
3. Sensor boosters, modules used to increase a ship's scan resolution and/or targeting range
4. Shield boosters, modules used to restore a ship's shield hit points
5. Capacitor boosters, modules used to restore a ship's capacitor using cap booster charges

Boson

Bosonic Field Generator, a large cone AoE superweapon usable by titans. Notable for its past ability to decimate subcapitals before a nerf in 2019

Bounce

To warp to a nearby celestial, player, or bookmark and back at a closer range to avoid having to slow-boat to a target or destination.

Bounty

1. (Deprecated mechanic) Player bounties. Which is a bounty placed on one player, from another player.
2. NPC bounties. These are placed by CONCORD and can be gotten by killing the NPC ship.

BPC

Blueprint Copy (see Blueprints)

BPO

Blueprint Original (see Blueprints)

BR

1. Blockade Runner, a class of fast industrial ships designed to carry moderate quantities of carry cargo through dangerous space.
2. Battle Report, a list of ships and pilots involved and destroyed in a specific battle. Usually generated by outside websites such as ZKillboard.

Bracket

Visual indicators or icons displayed in space that represent various objects such as ships, stations, stargates, asteroids, drones, and other entities. See Overview for information on brackets in the context of the overview.

Bricked

An extremely unlucky Abyssal roll.

Brick tank

A more emphatic term for Buffer tanking

BS

A common abbreviation for battleships.

Bubble

Warp disruption field, a spherical area of space that prevents ships within it from warping, and forcibly pulls in inbound warping ships. Created by Interdictors, Heavy Interdiction Cruisers, or by deployed Mobile Warp Disruptors

Buff

To increase the stats or effectiveness of something. Opposite of Nerf.

Buffer

A method of tanking relying on having a large amount of hit points.

Bump

The act of (intentionally) colliding with another ship in space, causing both to be pushed away.

Burn

1. Going fast using a propulsion module. Often used in context of going towards or away from a location. Contrast with slow-boat.
2. To quickly make multiple jumps in order to reach a destination.

BYOC

Bring Your Own Can, a mining fleet operation where you only receive boosts to mining, and you get to choose what you do with the ore. (see AMC) (limited usage to some mining corps and EVE University)

BYOM

Bring Your Own Minerals (within EVE University)

C

Carebear

A contextually derogatory or affectionate term for players or pursuits which are not PvP-centric.

Camp

To hold location at a specific point waiting for targets, usually at a stargate or station.

Cap

1. Capacitor
2. Capital ship

Capchain

"Capacitor chain", the practice of multiple Logistics Cruisers or battleships sending each other one or more Remote Capacitor Transmitters, to provide each other with infinite capacitor energy (by the transmitters restoring their target more capacitor than they cost to activate). See Logistics#Remote Capacitor Transfer

Cap Stable

When a ship recharges capacitor faster than its modules consume it, allowing all modules to remain active indefinitely.

Capsule

An egg-shaped apparatus used by pilots to interface with a ship. Ejected and used as an escape pod in case of ship destruction. A slow and weak vessel.

Capsuleer

In-game term for player characters. Humans who pilot ships through the use of a capsule and have been rendered effectively immortal through cloning technology.

Capital

Capital ship

CCC

Capacitor Control Circuit (see Rigs)

CD

Command Destroyer

Ceptor

Interceptors

Chemo

A group of CovOps cloak, smartbomb-fit Strategic Cruisers used to kill fleets of small ships

Chokepoint

Type of system or location that serves as a critical passageway or junction between different areas of space.

Clip

The ammo capacity of a rapid missile launcher; A period where a rapid missile launcher-equipped ship can do damage before having to undergo a long reload.

CLORP

Cloak+Warp. What ships who can warp cloaked should be doing always.

CNR

Raven Navy Issue (derived from previous name: Caldari Navy Raven)

CNS

Scorpion Navy Issue (derived from previous name: Caldari Navy Scorpion)

Coalition

A group of alliances formed through mutual agreement. There are no in-game mechanics to represent such groups though members usually have blue standings among themselves.

Cold

See Hot

Comp

Short for "fleet composition", and used when quickly describing the makeup of a fleet.

Concorded

Destroyed by CONCORD

Concordokken

The destruction of a ship by CONCORD

Content

1. As EVE is an extremely wide-open sandbox with little story or other enforced activities provided by the developers, players must often come up with their own objectives and activities ('Content') to fill their game time with.
2. PVP fights

Convo

In-game direct conversation, initiated by selecting "Start Conversation" from the right-click menu.

Corp

Corporation

CovOps

1. Covert Ops
2. The Covert Ops Cloaking Device

CPR

Capacitor Power Relay (see Capacitor recharge rate)

CPU

Central Processing Unit (see Fitting Guidelines)

Crowbar

An ECM ship for prying a more valuable ship out of a sticky situation (see Crowbar and Griffin)

CSAA

Capital Ship Assembly Array (see Player-owned starbases)

CSM

Council of Stellar Management

CSPA

CONCORD Spam Prevention Act.
A 'CSPA charge' is an amount of ISK which can be levied on communications such as conversations and mail, acting as a deterrent to spam. CSPA is managed via the EVE Mail settings.

Crit

A Wormhole which "has been critically disrupted [...] and is on the verge of collapse"

CTA

Short for "Call to Arms". An announcement of an alliance- or coalition-wide combat operation.

Curse of BWF

A widely held belief that any corporation or alliance which holds the BWF-ZZ system in the Geminate region will shortly failcascade.

Customs Office

An orbital structure used to import and export goods to and from planets. (see Planetary Industry)

Cwizzing

Using the Point Defense System of a Citadel. (Derived from the real-life acronym 'CIWS')

Cyno

Cynosural field (see Jump drives)

D

Damage Dealer

A ship whose primary role in a fleet is to deal damage.

Damp

Sensor dampening

DC

1. Damage Control (previously known as Damage Control Unit; see Tanking)
2. Disconnect

DCU

1. Drone Control Unit, a now-defunct module that allowed carriers and supercarriers to control one additional drone. Removed in Citadel patch.
2. Damage Control Unit (now called Damage Control; see Tanking)

DD

1. Damage dealer
2. Daredevil
3. Doomsday (Weapon)

DDA

Drone Damage Amplifier.

DED

Directive Enforcement Department. A division of CONCORD Assembly.

Deadspace

Pockets of space typically accessed via acceleration gate which cannot be entered via normal warp. Commonly used for missions and complexes.

Deathcloning

Self destructing your pod to travel to your home station.

Depot

Mobile Depot.

Dessie/Dessi/Dessy

Destroyer.

Desto

Destination.

DGC

Defensive gate camp (See Gate camps.)

Dictor

Interdictor.

Disco

A ship fitting which uses a large number of smartbombs, typically at least one of each damage type. Named for the graphical effects seen when they are fired.

Discovery Scanner

See Sensor Overlay

Doctrine

A monolithic fleet concept, usually consisting of one or two ship fittings. Allows the FC to make decisions based on a known performance profile.

Domi

Dominix.

Doorstop

Any ship fitted and/or used specifically to collapse a wormhole immediately upon jumping through the wormhole. The wormhole is typically weakened beforehand by other ships jumping back-and-forth through the wormhole until the wormhole stability becomes critical. See Wormholes § Mass

DPS

1. Damage per second.
2. Damage Dealer (when discussing fleet compositions)

Dread

Dreadnought.

Dread bomb

The act of jumping a large number of insured dreadnoughts into a fight in order to quickly destroy a group of enemy capital ships. The dreadnoughts used in a dread bomb often do not survive; and so their job is to do as much damage as possible during their short lifespan.

Drop

1. The act of jumping one or more (usually) capital ships on a target, to quickly destroy it.
2. A booster used to improve turret tracking.

Drone boat

A ship which relies heavily on Drones for combat, like the Ishtar or Dominix.

Dronebunny

A ship in a fleet with a fast lock time, which other ships in the fleet order their drones to Assist, so that all drones in the fleet can rapidly and cohesively switch targets regardless of what their owners are doing.

DScan

Directional Scan, which lets you see ships in space over long range or in specific directions.

DST

Deep Space Transport.

DT

Server downtime.

E

E-UNI

EVE University (corporate ticker)

EANM

Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane, the former name of the Multispectrum Energized Membrane (see Tanking)

ECM

Electronic Countermeasures

ECCM

Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (see Electronic warfare)

EFT

1. The text format used for exporting, copy-pasting, and sharing fits out of game, and importing fits into the game. Originally created by EVE Fitting Tool, later integrated with the in-game fitting window.
2. EVE Fitting Tool, a tool dealing with ship fitting that has been abandoned and replaced by PYFA

EHP

Effective Hit Points (see Tanking)

ENAM

Extremely common mis-acronymization of EANM

EOL

Wormhole reaching end of life (less than 4 hours remaining. See Wormholes § Life)

ET

1. EVE time
2. Energy Transfer (now called Remote Capacitor Transmitter; see Logistics)

ETA

Estimated time of arrival

EVE

EVE Online

EW / EWAR

Electronic warfare

ESS

Encounter Surveillance System

F

Failcascade

Failure Cascade. The escalating collapse of a corporation or alliance in EVE, either through leadership problems or other issues.

FAX

Force Auxiliary

FC

Fleet Commander (see Fleet Command Guide)

FF

Friendly Flash, used to alert friendly players that a wormhole activation (flash) is friendly

Firewalling

A defensive strategy of using Smartbombs to destroy incoming missiles

Flag

An engagement status caused by one or more illegal or semi-illegal activities. (see Timers)

Flashy

Being flagged as a legitimate target, or used as noun to describe a pilot that has been flagged, either by having a security status of -5.0 or below ("permaflashy"), from committing Suspect or Criminal actions, being a war target, or being flagged in a Limited Engagement. See also: Legality Timers.

FiBo

Fighter Bomber, the precursor to Heavy Fighters

Flip

Can Flipping

Flytrap

An armed POS that has no force field to appear offline to unsuspecting prey

FOB

Forward Operating Base

FR

Flashing Red. Criminal flag

Freeport

1. A dockable structure owned by a player corporation that has chosen to allow docking to all players.
2. Freeport Mode, a feature of outposts

Frogs

Slightly derogatory term for Gallente Factional Warfare pilots. See also: Squids.

FW

Factional Warfare

G

Gank

To ambush and destroy an enemy, without giving them the chance to fight back.

GANKED

A tag on ZKillboard representing a ship which was killed by multiple pilots who were then immediately killed by CONCORD. See Suicide ganking.

Gate

1. Stargate
2. Acceleration Gate

Gate Green/Gate Red

Terms used by fleet commanders to denote whether a jump gate is clear to jump through or not.

GC

Short for "Good Contest", used when two Incursion Fleets fight over the same Incursion sites for payout.

GCC

Short for "Global Criminal Countdown", an outdated name for the criminal timer.

GF

"Good fight". Usually said in local after a battle.

Gimp

To make a certain setup or attribute ineffective. Extreme version of Nerf.

Godroll

An extremely lucky Abyssal roll

Grid

A discrete section of space generated by the presence of objects in space. (see Grid)

Grid Fu

See Grid Manipulation.

GSC

Giant Secure Container

Gyro

Gyrostabilizer (see Turret damage)

H

HAC

Heavy Assault Cruiser

HAM

Heavy Assault Missiles (see Missiles)

Hardpoint

A ship attribute that determines the number of missile launchers or turrets that can be fitted

Hard skills

Skills trained by characters (as opposed to soft skills).

HAW

High-Angle Weapons, capital ship weapons designed to engage subcapital targets (see Turrets)

Headshotting

The act of specifically killing the opposing fleet commander(s) during a fight, usually to disrupt the fleet and/or end the fight

Heavy Tackle

A tanky ship, such as a Heavy Interdiction Cruiser, which holds tackle on an enemy ship. This is in contrast to light tackle which are a fast ships with little tank.

Hero Tackle

A ship or pilot who flies in alone to Tackle an enemy ship, hold them until their allies arrive, and usually die taking their target with them

Hic/Hictor

Heavy Interdiction Cruiser

HFI/HIFI

Hurricane Fleet Issue

HOC

"Hold on contact", a common movement order in fleets

Hot

• Microwarp drive on/off, commonly used during Wormhole Rolling, e.g. "come in hot"
• A module or set of modules which are overheated or not overheated, respectively, e.g. "guns are hot"

HP

Hit points (see Tanking)

HS

High-security space

HSC

High Sec Campus, former EVE University Campus (rolled into Main Community)

HUD

Heads Up Display

Huffing

Gas cloud harvesting

I

IHUB

Infrastructure Hub (see Sovereignty for Sov Null or Faction Warfare)

Indy

Short for industry or industrial. Haulers used to be named "Industrial" and thus also were referred to as "indies".

Injector

Skill Injector

Insta-undock

A method of safely undocking from a station by immediately warping to a bookmark directly off of the undock point. (see Bookmarks)

Instadock

A method of safely docking in a station by warping to a bookmark within the station's docking radius.

Inty

Interceptor

In Pipe

A message to allies that you have initiated warp, or are already traveling in warp

Invuln

1. Adaptive Invulnerability Field, the former name of the Multispectrum Shield Hardener (see Tanking).
2. Any active Shield Hardeners, usually commented as a reminder to turn them on before going into combat. ("Invulns on")

IPH

ISK per hour (also ISK/hr)

IRL

"In real life"

ISK

Inter Stellar Kredits, the in-game currency of EVE Online. (Also the currency code of the Icelandic króna.)

iStab

Inertial Stabilizers (see Propulsion equipment)

Ivy League

Ivy League, the alliance of EVE University

J

J-Space

Either means Wormhole space (referencing the J prefixing all wormhole system names) or "Jove-space" (referencing the area of space where Jovians live)

Jam

The act of using ECM modules to jam the targeting systems of a ship (see Electronic Countermeasures)

Jamyled

To be killed by Drifters, a reference to Jamyl I the Empress of the Amarr Empire. Pronounce it like yam if Amarrian, like jam if Gallentian.

Jetcan

A temporary container created when jettisoning something from a cargo hold. See: Jettison container

JC

Jump clone

JJJ

"Jump, Jump, Jump", a common movement order in fleets

JOC

"Jump on contact", a common movement order in fleets

JS

See J-Space

Jump

The act of moving between two solar systems

Jump Destroyer

Command Destroyer

K

K-Space

Known space

Killboard

A website, usually public, which gathers records of the ship kills and ship losses which happen in EVE. The most well-known killboard is zKillboard.

Kinetic locked

An aspect of certain Caldari ships (like the Drake), which only receive bonus damage for Kinetic Missiles (and not other damage types).

Kitchen Sink

A fleet without a clear unifying doctrine.

Kite

See Kiting

Kiting

Keeping your distance from shorter-ranged enemies, allowing you to damage them without letting them damage you.

Krab

Running PvE content for ISK. Generally used derisively.

Krabbing

See Krab

KS

See K-Space

L

LA

Logi Anchor (see Anchor). Their task is usually to keep Logi ships in range of friendly DPS but as far from enemies as possible.

LAR

Large Armor Repairer (see Tanking)

LML

Light Missile Launcher (see Missiles)

Links

Command Bursts

Logi

Logistics ships (see Logistics)

Loot

The contents of a destroyed ship, which are left behind in a container when the ship is destroyed.

Local

The standard chat channel that shows who are in system while in high-sec, low-sec and null-sec. Does not show players in system while in wormholes.

Locust

A group of pilots running missions or moon mining in one large fleet (see Locust fleet)

LP

Loyalty Points

LS

Low-security space

LSB

Large Shield Booster (see Tanking)

LSC

Low-Sec Campus, former EVE University Campus (rolled into Main Community)

LSE

Large Shield Extender (see Tanking)

M

MAPC

Micro Auxiliary Power Core (see Fitting ships § Fitting modules)

Macro mining

The illegal use of 3rd party scripts to automate the mining process

MAR

Medium Armor Repairer (see Tanking)

MAR Sniper

Marauder Sniper - (Paladin & Vargur) Type of Ships in fleet doing incursion (example : https://wl.warptome.net/)

MAR DPS

Marauder DPS - (Kronos) Type of Ships in fleet doing incursion (example : https://wl.warptome.net/)

ME

Material Efficiency (see Blueprints)

Merc/Mercenary

A player or corporation that takes contracts to kill, wardec and perform other hostile actions for ISK.

Meta

1. Meta level (see Techs, Tiers and Meta levels)
2. To replace a module with a another module of the same type but with a different meta level (see Techs, Tiers and Meta levels)
3. Common or popular ships, fittings, and doctrines
4. Examination of a game from an outside perspective

Metagaming

Taking actions beyond the confines of the game universe to gain an advantage.

MFS

Magnetic Field Stabilizer (see Turret damage)

Mins

Minerals (see Mining)

MJD

Micro Jump Drive

MJFG

Micro Jump Field Generator

MLU

Mining Laser Upgrade (see Mining)

Mods

Modules

MSE

Medium Shield Extender (see Tanking)

MTU

Mobile Tractor Unit

Multiboxing

Playing with two (or more) characters simultaneously

Multispec

Multispectrum Shield Hardener, or Multispectrum Energized Membrane (see Tanking)

MW

Megawatt, a unit of measurement used to describe a ship's powergrid output (see Fitting Guidelines)

MWD

Microwarpdrive (see Propulsion equipment)

N

Nano

Nanofiber Internal Structure (see Propulsion equipment)

Nanogang

A small fleet of ships reliant on speed, evasion, and hit-and-run tactics, rather than numbers or raw damage advantage

NAP

Non Aggression Pact

Napoc

Apocalypse Navy Issue

NBSI

"Not blue, shoot it" (see Corporation diplomacy - Rules of Engagement)

Nerf

To reduce the stats or effectiveness of something. Opposite of Buff. See also: Gimp.

Neut

Energy Neutralizer (see Capacitor warfare)

Newbie

A term used to refer to a newer or less experienced players. Usually used in a neutral manner. See also: Newbro, Noob

Newbro

A term used to refer to a newer or less experienced players. Usually used in a positive, endearing manner. See also: Newbie, Noob

NM

Nightmare

Noob

A term used to refer to a newer or less experienced players. Occasionally used in a derogatory manner. See also: Newbie, Newbro

NOmen

Omen Navy Issue

NOP

(Newbies/Newbros/Noobs) on Patrol

NOS

Nosferatu (see Capacitor warfare)

NOsprey

Osprey Navy Issue

NPC

Non-player character

NPSI

"Not purple, shoot it" (see Rules of Engagement)

NRDS

"Not red, don't shoot" (see Corporation diplomacy - Rules of Engagement)

NS

See Nullsec

NSC

Null Sec Community (formerly Null-Sec Campus) (within EVE University)

Nullsec

Null-security space

O

Officer

A rare named pirate NPC that drops some of the most expensive modules.

Omega

The Omega Clone state

Omni Tank

A tank effective against all 4 damage types (see Tanking)

OMW

"On my way"

Ongrid Booster

A deprecated term for a ship using Warfare Links to enhance a fleet, while being with the fleet as opposed to at a safe spot in the system. See Command Bursts for the more modern system.

Offgrid Booster

A deprecated term for a ship using Warfare Links to enhance a fleet, while hiding at a safe spot somewhere in the system. Offgrid Boosters are no longer possible; see Command Bursts for the more modern system.

ONI

1. Osprey Navy Issue
2. Omen Navy Issue
3. Oneiros

OOC

1. Out of Corporation
2. Out of character

Op/Ops

Operation(s)

OP

Overpowered

OpSec

Operational Security (see Operational Security Policy)

ORE

Outer Ring Excavations

Outlaw

A pilot with a security status of -5 or less.

P

PAP

Short for ‘Participation Link’. A metric for large organizations to track fleet participation. Formerly required clicking an in-game link before the move to ESI (see CTA).

Painter

Target Painter (see Electronic warfare)

Passive Module

A ship module which does not need to be manually activated. (see Modules)

PDS

1. Power Diagnostic System (see Fitting Guidelines)
2. Point Defense System (a module fitted to large Upwell structures)

Pew Pew

Common term for combat, based on the noises made by the weapons.

PG

Power Grid (see Fitting Guidelines)

PI

Planetary Industry

Picket

A ship placed outside of tactical locations such as gates and stations to watch for enemy activity

Ping

1. A tactical bookmark placed near a stargate or other point of interest, close enough to be on grid, but far enough that it can be fleet warped to during a fight
2. Use of an out-of-game message service (e.g. Slack, Discord) to notify others

Pipe

A sequence of systems with only one way in and out on either end, which must be traversed to move between two areas of space. Can be vulnerable to Pipe Bombing.

Piracy

The act of engaging in PvP for profit

PL

Pandemic Legion, a well-known nullsec alliance

Plex

1. Complex (see Cosmic Anomalies, Cosmic Signatures)
2. Pilot's License Extension (PLEX)

PLEX Tanking

Sarcastic term for transporting PLEX through space, usually with a ship not usually used for hauling. Note that because the PLEX Vault can be accessed from anywhere, no pilot should ever need to do this.

Pocket

1. Alternate term for an area of deadspace
2. An area of space - usually a Constellation - which only has a single entrance. The Null-Sec Community pocket is the constellation 4Y7-Q as the only entrance is via PC9-AY)

POCO

Player-owned Customs Office

Pod

Capsule

Podding

The act of destroying a player's pod.

Pod Express

A quick method of travelling to a player's home Station by self-destructing their capsule.

Pod Killing

See Podding

Point

1. A Warp Disruptor or Warp Scrambler (see Warp disruption)
2. The act of using targeted warp disruption on a ship (see Tackling)

POS

Player-owned starbase

POS Trash

Unpiloted ships sitting within the force field of a POS

Prop Mod

Propulsion module (see Propulsion equipment)

Pubbie

A derogatory term used by some players to refer to others outside their own group

Punt

To warp the fleet in front of yourself

PvE

Player versus Environment

PvP

Player versus Player

Q

QQ

Cry / Crying

QRF

Short for "Quick Response Fleet", a short-term fleet to respond to imminent threats

R

Ramjag

A Jaguar fit with dual Medium ASBs, MWD, and typically web, scram, and nos. This fit makes for a very fast and durable tackle frigate that can ram into a target (hence the name), at the expense of having very low damage capabilities.

Rat

Hostile NPC. Short for "pirate", although also used because said NPCs tend to be very weak but very numerous (like real life rats).

Ratting

The act of hunting hostile NPCs, usually done to earn ISK. See Ratting

Rage Roll

The act of repeatedly Rolling a static wormhole as fast as possible, to find Content

RCU

Reactor Control Unit (see Fitting Guidelines)

Red

A pilot, corporation, or alliance with terrible standings. (See also Blue)

Red Box

The state of being both targeted and subjected to hostile action by a player or NPC

Red Cycle

To deactivate a ship module mid-cycle so that it will stop at the completion of its current cycle. Commonly used regarding modules with longer cycle times, Marauder Bastion, for example. Also "<module> is red".

Red Loot

Triglavian Survey Databases, looted from the Abyss or Triglavian NPC ships. Can be sold to certain NPC stations for ISK, or can be traded in at DED LP Stores. Nicknamed "Red Loot" because, similar to Blue Loot, it's a loot item, whose icon is red.

Refine

Reprocess (see Reprocessing)

Reinforced

A temporary (about 1-4 days) invulnerable state entered by some structures after taking a certain amount of damage, allowing the owners time to form a response fleet.

Rep

Repair (see Tanking, Logistics)

Resebo

Remote Sensor Booster (see Electronic warfare)

RF

1. Reinforce
2. "Republic Fleet", usually seen as a faction module prefix.

RL

Real Life

RHML

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher (see Missiles)

RLML

Rapid Light Missile Launcher (see Missiles)

RMT

Real Money Trading

RoE

Rules of Engagement

RoF

"Rate of fire" (see Turrets, Missiles)

Roll

1. Wormhole rolling, the act of collapsing a wormhole by passing a large amount of mass through it
2. Abyssal roll, an abyssal module or the act of creating one

Roles

Specific access and corporation management rights authorized to individual pilots - in E-UNI this is usually as part of a title or management position (See Managing corporation members)

RR

Remote repair (see Logistics)

RvB

Red vs Blue (player corporation)

S

Safety

Ship setting that helps prevent accidental acts of aggression that would cause the pilot to otherwise gain the Criminal or Suspect flags. (see Timers)

SAR

Small Armor Repairer (see Tanking)

SB

1. Stealth Bomber
2. Smartbomb
3. Sensor Booster

SC

1. Squad Commander (see Fleet Command Guide)
2. Shared Can (see Archive:Mining fleets)

SCI

System Cost Index, a rough indication to how much your job will cost, relatively, to install. (see Industry)

Scram

Warp scrambler (see Warp disruption)

Screen

To prevent others from getting near important ships.

Sebo

Sensor Booster

Sec

1. Security status
2. System security

Sensor Overlay

The automatically scanned overlay that activates upon entering a new solar system or undocking. The Sensor Overlay shows the location of landmarks, bookmarks, and Cosmic Signatures / Anomalies in space. See also: Odyssey.

Shotgunning

Inspect a location without scanning

Sisi

Singularity

Six

In any lists, the sixth item is commonly omitted in reference to a Monthy Python sketch ("Australian University of Woolloomooloo")

SKIN

Super Kerr-Induced Nanocoatings, items which apply cosmetic changes (e.g. different colours) to ships.

SKINR

Super Kerr-Induced Nanocoating Resequencer, allows CEO’s, Directors, and Brand Managers to create Nanocoating designs by applying Nanocoating's of their choosing to different areas of Upwell Structures.

Slide

The act of taking an Acceleration Gate. Often used in Factional Warfare.

Slow-boat

(also "slowboat") Moving in space at sub-warp velocities

Smack talk

Talking trash, taunting, or annoying people in local chat. University members are expected to steer clear. Jokingly referenced in the error message when under a Session Timer from entering or moving within a Fleet.

Soft skills

Skills learned by players through experience or study, as opposed to hard skills.

Soli

Solitude, a Gallente region characterized by its large highsec island and remoteness from most of highsec space. (Dotlan link)

SOP

Standard Operating Procedures

SOV Null

Sovereign Nullspace (see Sovereignty)

SP

Skill Points (see Skills and Learning)

Spai

Another common way of spelling spy. Spais typically are those who have infiltrated another corporation. Can be thought of as 'Sneaky Player Acquiring Intel (SPAI)'

Spider

A group of pilots in a fleet in which each member independently runs their own missions, with other members doing the same thing. Sharing rewards. (See Spider fleet) (See also Locust)

Spider Tanking

A doctrine that relies on most ships having remote repair capabilities, rather than a dedicated logistics wing

Spiraling

The act of manually approaching a target via a continuously diagonal vector. See Manual Piloting.

SPR

Shield Power Relay (see Tanking)

Splash

To enter a Wormhole (see Wormhole)

Squids

Slightly derogatory name for Caldari and Amarr Factional Warfare pilots. The term originated from mixing both faction names into "CalAmari". See also: Frogs.

SRP

Ship Replacement Program

SSE

Small Shield Extender (see Tanking)

SSO

Single Sign-On, a centralized log-in tool CCP provides for both in game, out of game and third party applications.

Stab

Warp Core Stabilizer (see Tackling)

Starburst

When every member of the gang or fleet warps to a different place in the system to hunt someone.

Stargate

Large structure in space which most ships must use to travel between solar systems.

Static

A Wormhole type, present in every wormhole system but specific to the system, which will always immediately re-generate every time it closes

Stront

Strontium Clathrates. Used in POS Warfare, and consumed by Dreadnoughts and Force Auxiliaries.

Stront Check

Attacking a POS to see if it contains Stront. Usually done to annoy the owner.

Super/Supercap

Supercapital ship, usually a supercarrier (or, rarely, a titan).

T

Tack

A hyphen ('-') (used for clarity when speaking)

Tackle

A ship specialized in tackling another, with the intention of keeping the opponent in place.

TC

Tracking Computer (see Turrets)

TCU

Territorial Control Unit (see Sovereignty)

TD

Tracking Disruptor (see Electronic warfare)

TE

1. Tracking Enhancer (see Turrets)
2. Time Efficiency (see Blueprints)

TF

Teraflops, a unit used to measure a ship's CPU (see Fitting)

TFF

Thanks For Fleet - gratitude to FC

Tick

1. Server tick
2. Bounty payouts per 20 minutes

TiDi

Time Dilation

Tiericide

An ongoing rebalancing of ships and modules in EVE according to roles rather than performance. See Tech and Meta Levels.

TL

Tracking Link (now called Remote Tracking Computer; see Electronic warfare)

TLF

Tribal Liberation Force, the Minmatar Factional Warfare NPC corporation.

Toon

Synonym for Alt, aka Alternate character

Top Station

The first station in the list when you right click in space and select 'Stations'.

TP

Target Painter (see Electronic warfare)

TQ

Tranquility

Travelceptor

Any Interceptor specifically fitted to enter warp in <= 2s (Travelceptor vs Instalocker)

Trig/Triangle

Triglavian ship

TS

TeamSpeak, a third-party VOIP software utility

T1, T2, T3

1. Tech levels (see Tech and meta levels)
2. Abyssal Deadspace tiers (from T0 to T6)

U

Unista

A member of EVE University

UTC

Universal Time, the server time for EVE

V

VNI

Vexor Navy Issue

VOC

"Verge of Collapse", a Wormhole state in which the Wormhole has less than 10% of its mass limit remaining. (See Living in Wormhole Space.)

W

W-Space

Wormhole space

Wardec

declaring a war

Warp bubble

See Bubble

WC

Wing Commander (see Fleet Command Guide)

WCS

Warp Core Stabilizer (see Fitting Guidelines)

Web

Stasis Webifier (see Tackling)

Winning EVE

Not playing EVE Online (tongue-in-cheek)

WH

Wormhole

WHC

Wormhole Community (formerly Wormhole Campus) (within EVE University)

Widot

1. A smaller alliance coalescing into one corporation to join a larger alliance
2. For beleaguered or departing groups to lose members to a larger or stronger ally

(Named after Wildly Inappropriate., an alliance that merged into a corporation of the same name to join the larger Goonswarm Federation)

WL

Wait List, a way for the waitlist manager to handle people waiting to get into Incursions fleets. More generally used to refer to a channel for potential fleet members to wait in while the FC invites them.

Wrecking shot

A 1% chance shot fired by a Turret, which is guaranteed to hit and deals 300% damage. (See Turret mechanics.)

WS

See W-Space

WSOP

Wartime Standard Operating Procedures, a defunct SOP that dictated Uni operations during wartime (within EVE University)

WT

War Target (see War Declaration)

Wubble

Stasis Webificataion Probe, used by Interdictors (Portmanteau of Web + Bubble)

www

A message typed in fleet chat, indicating a pilot ships in the fleet should warp to

X

X up

A method of indicating availability for a given task. If an "x up" for an activity or volunteer role is recommended, pilots interested should simply post "x" in the chat channel indicated, optionally followed by additional info as requested. Most commonly used during fleet form-ups.

XLASB/XLAncil

X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster

Y

Yeet

Using a Needlejack or Pochven filament to teleport.

Yellow Box

Being targeted by someone, or to target someone, without also being the subject of hostile action.

Yulai Convention

The Yulai Convention is an RP term for a number of game mechanics and systems within EVE.

YC

An initialism of the Yulai Convention, traditionally written before the current in-Universe year (2021 is YC 123)

Z

Zero Zero

See Nullsec

Zulu

Zulu time: UTC or EVE time