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This page lists abbreviations and terms commonly used in EVE Online, aimed at new players and those unfamiliar with the terminology. Some entries are relatively specialized to EVE University, and because of this the definition of some terms may differ when used in other corporations. If any of the terminology is unclear be sure to ask in-game or on the forums for more clarification. (To link to something on this page just link to the term as normal; for example [[Pod]] will link to that part of this page like so: Pod.)

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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

A

AAR

AB

AC

ACR

Active Module

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

AF

AFK

  • "Away from keyboard"

Aggro

Align

  • To move in the direction of an object in space at 75% or more of max speed and within 5 degrees

Alliance

Alt

AMC

Anomaly

Anoms

Arby

Arty

ASB

  • Ancillary Shield Booster (see Tanking)

AU

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

AUR

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 to do so)

AWU

B

Bait

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

BB

BCS

  • Ballistic Control System (previously known as "Ballistic Control Unit"; see Missiles)

BC

Bearing

Biomass

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

Bloodlines

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

Blue

BM

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.

BPC

BPO

BR

  • Blockade Runner, a class of fast industrial ships designed to carry moderate quantities of carry cargo through dangerous space.

BS

Bubble

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
  • A pilot with a ship designed to provide buffs to their fleet

Bump

  • The act of colliding with another vessel in space, causing it to bounce away.

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)

BYOM

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

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.

Capsuleer

  • Human who pilots ships through the use of a capsule and has been rendered effectively immortal through cloning technology. In-game term for player characters.

Capital

  • Capital ship
  • Money and infrastructure necessary for beginning and maintaining a business venture.

CCC

  • Capacitor Control Circuit (see Rigs)

CNR

Concorded

Concordokken

  • The destruction of a ship by CONCORD

Convo

  • "Conversation"

Corp

CovOps

CPR

CPU

CSAA

CSM

CSPA

  • CONCORD Spam Prevention Act. A 'CSPA charge' is a small amount of ISK which is levied on communications such as conversations and mail, which acts as a deterrent to spam.

CTA

  • "Call to arms". An announcement of an alliance-wide combat operation, often involving simultaneous calls for support from an alliance's friends, usually made in response to a reinforcement timer for a valuable structure.

Curse of BWF

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

Customs Office

CTA

  • Call to Arms, a mandatory alliance or corporation PVP operation where everyone is expected to move to a specified location as quickly as possible to prepare to attack or defend.

Cyno

D

Damage dealer

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

Damp

DC

DCU

  • Drone Control Unit, a now-defunct module that allowed carriers and supercarriers to control one additional drone. Removed in Citadel patch.

DD

Deadspace

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

DecShield

Dessie/Dessi/Dessy

DGC

Dictor

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

Domi

DPS

  • Damage per second

Dread

Dread bomb

  • The act of jumping a large number of insured dreadnoughts into a fight in order to escalate against enemy capital ships.

DScan

  • Directional Scanner: A device inherently built into all ships which can detect objects in space within a limited and modifiable direction and range. Can also be used as a verb to describe the act of using the directional scanner. See also: Directional Scanner Guide.

DST

DT

E

E-UNI

EANM

  • Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane (see Tanking)

ECM

ECCM

EFT

EHP

EP

ETA

  • Estimated time of arrival.

EVE

EW/EWAR

F

Failcascade

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

Faildec

  • A wardec where the corporation or alliance that issued the wardec refuses to undock or fight for the full duration of the war.

Failfit

  • A ship that is fit in a less than optimal way.

FAX

FC

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.

Flip

Flytrap

  • An offensive setup POS which deliberately has no force field while it is online.

Freeport

  • A nullsec station owned by a player alliance where everybody is allowed to dock and use the services.
  • Freeport Mode, a feature of Citadels

Frogs

FW

G

Gank

  • Destroyed suddenly or quickly, usually by a much more powerful opponent

Gate

  • Stargate
  • Acceleration Gate

GCC

  • Global Criminal Countdown (see Timers)

GF

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

Gimp

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

Grid

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

Grid Fu

GSC

  • Giant Secure Container

Gyro

H

HAC

HAM

Hardpoint

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

Hard skills

Hic/Hictor

HOC

  • "Hold on contact"

HP

HS

HUD

  • Heads Up Display

Huffing

I

Indy

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)

Inty

IP

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

Ivy League

J

Jam

Jetcan

  • A temporary container created when jettisoning something from a cargo hold

JC

JJJ

  • "Jump, Jump, Jump"

JOC

  • "Jump on contact"

Jump

  • The act of moving between one star system and another

K

K Space

Kitchen Sink

  • A fleet with a random or very mixed composition.

Kite/Kiting

  • Actively maintaining movement and distance from an engaged enemy so as to mitigate their applied damage.

L

LAR

LFAF

  • "Looking for armor fleet."

LFSF

  • "Looking for shield fleet."

LML

Lockdown

  • An order from the leadership of a corporation prohibiting its pilots from undocking in non-PvP ships.

Logi

Loot

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

Locust

  • A group of pilots running missions in one large fleet (see Mission Fleet)

LP

LSB

LSC

LSE

  • Large Shield Extender (see Tanking)

M

MAPC

Macro mining

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

MAR

  • Medium Armor Repairer (see Tanking)

MD

MSE

  • Medium Shield Extender (see Tanking)

Merc/Mercenary

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

Meta

Metagaming

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

MFS

Mins

MJD

ML

MLU

  • Mining Laser Upgrade (see Mining)

Mods

MTU

Multiboxing

  • Playing with two (or more) characters simultaneously

MW

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

MWD

N

Nano

NBSI

Nerf

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

NE

  • "No eyes"

Neut

Newbro

  • A term of endearment for a new or inexperienced player.

Noob

  • Somewhat derogatory term used to refer to new, younger, or inexperienced players. See also: Newbro

NOP

  • Noobs on Patrol

NOS

NPC

  • Non-player character

NPSI

NRDS

NSC

O

OGC

Omni Tank

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

OMW

  • "On wy way"

OOC

  • Out of Corporation
  • Out of character

Op/Ops

  • Operation(s)

OP

  • Overpowered

OpSec

ORE

Outlaw

P

Painter

Passive Module

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

PDS

Pew Pew

  • Common term for casual PvE or PvP, based on the noises made by the weapons.

PG

PI

Picket

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

Piracy

  • The act of engaging in PvP for profit, usually against non-combat ships (see also Scams in EVE Online)

PL

  • Productivity Level (see Blueprints)
  • Pandemic Legion, a well-known nullsec alliance

Plex

PLEX Tanking

  • Transporting PLEX through space, usually with a ship not usually used for hauling

POCO

Pod

  • The egg-shaped escape pod or capsule which players pilot. This interfaces with a ship and is ejected on ship destruction. To be 'podded' is to have your escape pod destroyed. See also: Capsule.

Podding

  • The act of destroying a player's pod.

Pod Express

  • A quick method of travelling, performed by installing a medical clone at a distant station, and then self-destructing the character's pod.

Pod Killing

Point

Pop

  • The act of destroying a ship

POS

Prop Mod

Pubbie

  • A derogatory term used for the purpose of invalidating or excluding players who are not a part of a certain group. Supposedly originating in the Something Awful forums, this term was popularized by members of The Goonswarm Federation. See also: Carebear.

PvE

  • Player versus Environment

PvP

  • Player versus Player

PYOS

Q

QQ

  • Cry / Crying

QRF

R

Rat

Ratting

  • The act of hunting hostile NPCs pirates

RCU

Red Box

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

Reffed

Refine

Reinforce

  • A temporary invulnerable state entered by many structures after taking a certain amount of damage

Rep

RFF

RL

RLML

  • Rapid Light Missile Launcher (see Missiles)

RoE

RoF

Roles

  • Specific access and corporation management rights authorized to individual pilots (usually as part of a title or management position).

Rolling Safespot

  • A fleet maneuver consisting of one ship leading the rest of the fleet from location to location in space.

Room

  • An area of deadspace which can only be accessed via an acceleration gate.

RR

RSB

RSD

RvB

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

SB

SC

Scan down

  • To find something using scan probes. (see Scanning)

Scram

SeBo

Sec

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.

Siege

  • The classification of extra-large high damage modules used by dreadnoughts, typically used to lay siege to a POS.

Signature Resolution

  • A figure, found in the Attributes tab of any turret, which, roughly speaking, represents that turret's ability to aim at the sensor footprint of its target. The bigger the sig res, the less chance that turret has to hit small enemies. See the relevant section of the Gunnery Guide for more details.
  • Not to be confused with signature radius or scan resolution!

Sisi

Six

Slow-boat

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

Smack talk

Smartie

Smartbomb

  • An area affect weapon which causes damage to everything within a fixed distance of your ship. Not at all smart, and will damage neutrals and friendlies, so not recommended for HiSec space.
  • See also: Smartbombs

Soft skills

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

Solitude

SOP

  • Standard Operating Procedures

Sovereignty

  • The ownership of a star system by a group. Commonly "Sov". This may be an NPC faction, or an Alliance in 0.0, and in the latter case is usually strictly defended. More details in Life in 0.0.

SP

  • Skill Points. The points gained by training skills.

Spider Fleets

  • A standings fleet in which each member runs whatever missions they have independently from each other. The members of the fleet share the mission rewards when a mission is turned in. See Mission Fleet for more information.

Spider Tanking

  • A form of tanking that requires two or more ships that use remote armor or remote shield repairer modules on each other.

Spiraling

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

SPR

  • Shield Power Relay. A module which increases the shield recharge rate in exchange for reducing the capacitor recharge rate. Shield Power Relays can be fit in low slots. See: CPR.

Squids

SRP

SS

SSE

  • Small Shield Extender. A mid slot module which increases the total shield capacity of a ship by a fixed amount. Generally fit on frigate sized hulls. See also, LSE, and MSE.

Stab

  • Warp Core Stabilizer. See: WCS.

Station Spinning

  • The act of spinning the camera around and around your ship whilst it is docked in a station, usually as a display of boredom during a Wardec/LockDown.

Standings

  • The rating of how much a pilot or group is liked by another group, in the range -10 to +10
  • With respect to NPC standings; there are 2 different values shown in the game: Actual and Effective standings. Effective is only shown to the pilot viewing their own information and is the result of social skills having been applied to the base standings.
  • See Mission Standings for more detail on corporation standings.
  • Faction Standings

Stargate

  • Large structure in space which most ships must use to jump to another star system in Known Space.

Storyline Module

  • A special type of module, typically with reduced fitting requirements, looted from missions or as a reward for completing COSMOS missions. For more info, see Techs, Tiers and Meta levels.

Storyline Mission

  • Special missions usually offered once you have completed 16 missions of the same level for a single faction. These lead to large increases in standings with that faction and may lead to reduction in standing with another faction. For more details, see Missions.

Stront

Suicide Gank

  • Empire piracy where an attacking pilot will attempt to kill its target before the CONCORD response eliminates them. Usually an alt of the attacker stands by to loot the victim. This form of piracy is only considered profitable when the victim's loot is greater than the cost of the pirate's ship. Piracy is actively discouraged by the EVE University rules. More information: Suicide Ganking.

Supercap

Suspect

  • An engagement status or "Flag" gained by illicit actions in Empire space. Any player may aggress the holder of a Suspect Flag without CONCORD retribution nor loss of Security Status. The Suspect Flag lasts 15 minutes. Also referred to as GCC (its old name). One of the conditions under which a target becomes flashy.

T

Tac

  • A term used by some players to describe a hyphen(-). This is usually used when giving system names, for example: The system B-DBYQ would be "B 'Tac' DBYQ" or "B 'Tac' D" for short.

Tackle

  • The act of preventing a hostile ship from escaping and/or to hold it in place so it can be destroyed. See also: Scram, Web, Tackling.

Tackler

  • One tasked with pinning down the enemy with Warp Jammers and Stasis Webifiers. T1 Frigates are considered to be ideally suited for the tackling role as they are fast moving, fast locking, quick to train for, and inexpensive to replace. More advanced players tend toward using Interceptors or Interdictors as dedicated tackling vessels.

Tank

  • The measure of the damage absorption capability of a ship. Both armor tanks and shield tanks are used. Tanks can actively use modules to regenerate the absorption, and other ships may remotely repair the tank as part of spider tanking. Shields can be passively tanked by using and improving the natural regeneration of the shields. Buffer tanks just have massive amounts of absorption with no regeneration. Speed tanking is damage avoidance through speed rather than true damage absorption. See also: Gank.

TC

  • Tracking Computer. A module that improves turret tracking and weapon range. Tracking computers can be fit in mid slots.

TD

  • Tracking Disruptor. A module that disrupts enemy turret range and the tracking speed of enemy turrets. Tracking Disruptors can be fit in mid slots.

TE

  • Tracking Enhancer. A module that improves turret tracking and turret weapon range. Tracking Enhancers can be fit in low slots.

TF

  • Teraflops. A unit used to measure a ship's computing power (commonly called 'CPU'). A simple calculator uses about 10 FLOPS (FLoating Operations Per Second). A terraflops is a trillion FLOPS. To compare to today's standards, in 2008 an IBM supercomputer reached 1.105 petaflops (1.105 quadrillion FLOPS) or 1,105 teraflops.

Tick

  • The 1 Hz server tick of the EVE server (Tranquility).
  • Bounty payouts per 20 minutes. The bounties for killing rats accrue after every kill and are paid into your wallet every 20 minutes. Quoting the average "tick" (easily seen in your wallet log) is a way of measuring the average ISK gained from an activity (e.g. ratting, mission running).

TiDi

  • Time Dilation. A server side optimization developed by CCP to slow down time when a system is under heavy load, such as when a large fleet engagement is taking place. This results in more consistent average module activation delay for all parties.

Tiericide

  • An ongoing rebalancing of ships in EVE according to roles rather than performance. The rebalancing started with the Retribution expansion, is ongoing, and aims to rebalance ships so that the ships within a given class (e.g. Amarr frigates) fulfill different roles (e.g. combat ships (good damage and defence, but slow), attack (good damage and speed, but weak defences), support (assists friendly ships and hinders enemy ships), etc.) rather than being a linear progression from less to more powerful. For more information, see this dev blog on the ship rebalancing.

Thera

  • Thera is a named wormhole solar system in Shattered Wormhole Space.

TLF

Travel Fit

  • A ship fit optimized for maximum survivability when traveling. When traveling around hostiles (e.g. during wartime or in low/null security space) it is often desirable to fit your ship to escape danger and then refit at your destination for another role. A travel fit can include a cloak and MWD to enable the MWD+cloak trick, WCS, agility mods, ECM, extra tank, etc...

TP

TQ

  • Tranquility. The main server cluster on which EVE is played on; the only exception is players in China, who play on a separate server called "Serenity".

TS

  • TeamSpeak. A third-party communications software utility. Historically the term referred to the University's TeamSpeak server. For Uni use, it has been replaced with Mumble.

T1

  • Tech 1 refers to standard modules and ships with basic stats. They are usually cheap, but flexible, and are used in the process of creating Tech 2 equipment and ships. See Techs, Tiers and Meta levels.

T2

  • Tech 2 refers to improved modules and ships, which are generally more expensive and often have far better stats and greater suitability to specialized roles. Note that Tech 2 modules generally require more ship resources to function than their Tech 1 and Faction counterparts.

T3

  • Tech 3 is an even higher level of technological advancement than Tech 2 and is currently only found in the Strategic Cruiser and the Tactical Destroyer class of ships. Tech 3 technology is highly modular and customizable. It is also only obtained by manufacturing resources located in wormhole space and thus comes with much greater monetary cost.

U

Unista

  • Unista is an internal name used for people that are currently in the EVE University corporation.

UT

  • Universal Time. See also: ET

V

Vanilla Module

  • The most basic modules above Civilian Modules. Often used in contests to provide a level playing field. See also meta.

Vermin

  • Special terminology used to denote those who attack the University in the belief they will get easy kills. See: WT.

VNI

W

Wardec

  • War Declaration. The act of declaring war on another group, which involves a payment to CONCORD in order for them to ignore the hostilities in HiSec. Often used to disrupt the functions of a large 0.0 alliance, or grief a vulnerable organization in HiSec space where they would normally be safe. See Also: Faildec

Warp

  • The act of moving at faster-than-light speeds within a star system. See also: Jump.

Warp bubble

  • A spherical area of space the prevents ships within it from warping, and forcibly pulls in inbound warping ships

WC

WCS

  • Warp Core Stabilizer. A low slot module used to help negate the effect of warp disruption. Note that WCS's are generally not recommended for combat fit ships, but instead are used primarily for transit through hostile territory, for which more than one WCS is often recommended. WCS's do not negate interdiction bubbles. See also: Point, Scram.

Web

  • Stasis Webifier. A mid slot module which greatly slows down a target ship (by up to 90% in extreme cases). Webs are often used when tackling. See also: Scram, Point.

WH

WHC

WIP

  • Work In Progress. See also [1]

WL

  • Wait List. Usually used to queue up pilots for incursion running. See incursions

W Space

WSOP

  • Wartime Standard Operating Procedures - NB. EVE University no longer has any special rules for war time

WT

  • War Target. Denoted on the overview by a red backed star. This is a group who have paid for the ability to attack the corporation or alliance you are in without any security standings loss or retribution from CONCORD in HiSec and LowSec space.

X

X up

  • Exing up is the act of indicating your availability for a fleet by placing the letter "x" in the chat window. Sometimes more information will be requested along with the "x," such as the ship your are flying in or the role you are ready to fulfill in the fleet. See Joining a Fleet.

Y

Yellow Box

  • Being targeted by someone, or to target someone, without aggression. Commonly used for intimidation, so that the target will attack first. It allows you to attack without being concordokken and prevents the target from jumping through a stargate or dock up in a station. The term comes from seeing the normally white bracket on your overview turning yellow, notifying you are targeted. See Aggression
  • In chat also referred to as 'Yellow Boxing'.

Yoiul Conference

  • The Yoiul Conference was a gathering of all the major factions, held aboard the Jovian Cruiser 'Yoiul', and is the epoch for years in EVE, with the event marking YC0.
  • These dates transfer to Real World time, by adding/subtracting 1898. For example:
    • YC106 - 2004
    • YC107 - 2005
    • YC110 - 2008
    • YC111 - 2009
    • YC114 - 2012
    • YC115 - 2013
    • YC116 - 2014
  • More information can be found in this EVE Chronicle.

Yulai Convention

  • The Yulai Convention is an RP term for a number of game mechanics and systems within EVE.
  • It is primarily seen in war CONCORD mails when an the attacking party leaves a bill unpaid, leading to a mail stating that "CONCORD has declared this war invalid as it breaches one or more articles in the Yulai Convention".
  • The convention also covers the definitions of time used by the four major empires, meaning that all time systems in New Eden run on the Gregorian calendar, using the UTC clock.

Z

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