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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons due to there slow degradation of player HP over time. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing a cheap (armourless, weaponless) APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typically typing "kill" in the console (or binding to a mouse button) so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures and Scouts with Smoke grenades to visibly obscure a large area. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]]. Rarely but asking the Comm 'I need a Barracks, Obama'

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'. No often used due to it's ambiguity.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Sab''' - Sabotage. When a Scout pressed her 'E' key (default) on an Enemy's structure (Buildings & Turrets, not Vehicles) it's HP will steadily decline over time. When sabbing a VF this not only affects the building but any Vechiles created have reduced Armour.

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''sHIT Missile''' - A pejorative term given to the 'HIT Missile'. Due to original Nuke being comparatively very powerful the sHIT missle is seen a massively nerfed version of the Nuke.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Also an In-joke due the in-game voice clearly announcing "Our Turrents under attack"

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

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==Y==
==Z==

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons due to there slow degradation of player HP over time. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing a cheap (armourless, weaponless) APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typically typing "kill" in the console (or binding to a mouse button) so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures and Scouts with Smoke grenades to visibly obscure a large area. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'. No often used due to it's ambiguity.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Sab''' - Sabotage. When a Scout pressed her 'E' key (default) on an Enemy's structure (Buildings & Turrets, not Vehicles) it's HP will steadily decline over time. When sabbing a VF this not only affects the building but any Vechiles created have reduced Armour.

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''sHIT Missile''' - A pejorative term given to the 'HIT Missile'. Due to original Nuke being comparatively very powerful the sHIT missle is seen a massively nerfed version of the Nuke.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Also an In-joke due the in-game voice clearly announcing "Our Turrents under attack"

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons due to there slow degradation of player HP over time. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing a cheap (armourless, weaponless) APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typically typing "kill" in the console (or binding to a mouse button) so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures and Scouts with Smoke grenades to visibly obscure a large area. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'. No often used due to it's ambiguity.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''sHIT Missile''' - A pejorative term given to the 'HIT Missile'. Due to original Nuke being comparatively very powerful the sHIT missle is seen a massively nerfed version of the Nuke.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Also an In-joke due the in-game voice clearly announcing "Our Turrents under attack"

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons due to there slow degradation of player HP over time. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing a cheap (armourless, weaponless) APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typically typing "kill" in the console (or binding to a mouse button) so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures and Scouts with Smoke grenades to visibly obscure a large area. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''sHIT Missile''' - A pejorative term given to the 'HIT Missile'. Due to original Nuke being comparatively very powerful the sHIT missle is seen a massively nerfed version of the Nuke.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Also an In-joke due the in-game voice clearly announcing "Our Turrents under attack"

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons due to there slow degradation of player HP over time. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing a cheap (armourless, weaponless) APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typically typing "kill" in the console (or binding to a mouse button) so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''sHIT Missile''' - A pejorative term given to the 'HIT Missile'. Due to original Nuke being comparatively very powerful the sHIT missle is seen a massively nerfed version of the Nuke.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Also an In-joke due the in-game voice clearly announcing "Our Turrents under attack"

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

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2009-08-13T17:22:24Z

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons due to there slow degradation of player HP over time. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing a cheap (armourless, weaponless) APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typing "kill" in the console so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''sHIT Missile''' - A pejorative term given to the 'HIT Missile'. Due to original Nuke being comparatively very powerful the sHIT missle is seen a massively nerfed version of the Nuke.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Also an In-joke due the in-game voice clearly announcing "Our Turrents under attack"

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

Jargon

2009-08-13T17:18:37Z

Flasche: /* T */ Added the "Our Turrents under attack" thing

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing an APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typing "kill" in the console so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''sHIT Missile''' - A pejorative term given to the 'HIT Missile'. Due to original Nuke being comparatively very powerful the sHIT missle is seen a massively nerfed version of the Nuke.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Also an In-joke due the in-game voice clearly announcing "Our Turrents under attack"

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing an APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typing "kill" in the console so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''sHIT Missile''' - A pejorative term given to the 'HIT Missile'. Due to original Nuke being comparatively very powerful the sHIT missle is seen a massively nerfed version of the Nuke.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Joke term.

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing an APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typing "kill" in the console so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player (especially Scout w/Hide upgrade) to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Joke term.

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing an APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

'''Freeball It''' - Empires In-Joke. Something Headshotmaster said when he was Com and his entire team abandoned him. He mean to say "... you guys are no help anymore, i'm just gonna Free*style* it"

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typing "kill" in the console so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Joke term.

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

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| [[#.23|#]] [[#A|A]] [[#B|B]] [[#C|C]] [[#D|D]] [[#E|E]] [[#F|F]] [[#G|G]] [[#H|H]] [[#I|I]] [[#J|J]] [[#K|K]] [[#L|L]] [[#M|M]] [[#N|N]] [[#O|O]] [[#P|P]] [[#Q|Q]] [[#R|R]] [[#S|S]] [[#T|T]] [[#U|U]] [[#V|V]] [[#W|W]] [[#X|X]] [[#Y|Y]] [[#Z|Z]]
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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing an APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''E-Build''' - Whilst an Engineer with a calculator can rapidly build various un-build items to so can other classes simply be press the 'E' (by default) in front of the structure. Just like multiple Engineers building one item, multiple E-builder's efforts will stack.

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typing "kill" in the console so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Joke term.

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

Jargon

2009-08-13T17:04:30Z

Flasche: /* B */ Corrected the tard spellingz of "Blimb" and expanded on the origin of the definition - as it was i that suggested it! ;)

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When you are playing Empires, you may come across some jargon you don't understand. Here is a list of the most commonly used bits of Empires jargon.
==#==
'''3 Phase''' - Refers to the (3 Phase Electric) engine upgrade.

'''8 mine''' - Refers to 8 mines being used to a similar effect as a 9mine, but being counterable by defusal, while 9 mine had no defense other than preventing grenadiers placing the 9th mine.

'''9 mine''' - Refers to the 9th Mine Trick and anything associated with this ability, was removed in 2.2

'''#slot''' - Refers to how many slots a vehicle has for a certain weapon type, or how many slots a weapon uses. "HE is a 2slot cannon" "Brenodi APCs have 3slot MGs"

'''#-#''' - used to describe teams, for example in an 11 versus 8 stacked game, someone might say "Fix the teams, it's stacked 11-8".

==A==
'''AIDS''' - The effects of Bioweapons. "They are giving us AIDS!11".

'''Ammoz''' - Running joke referring to a frequently asked question by new players, usage: "How to get ammoz?!" the subject may be changed, or a specific ammunition type may be referenced: "How to get aircraft?!", "How to get fist ammoz?!".

'''APC rush''' - Building a Vehicle Factory at the beginning of the game, constructing an APC from it, getting all players inside it, and then driving off to the enemy base to quickly destroy their barracks and CV before they have defense.

'''Arty''' - Artillery Vehicle. Plural: 'Arties'.

'''Arty Whore''' - used to refer to those that use artillery in escort and occasionally other maps, in specific locations artillery tanks can be angled such to ignore the turret minimum angle thus becoming highly deadly cannons. Uncommonly used, as artillery has been removed from escort.

'''Aura''' - Refers to the Squad Leader's power-up aura that gives nearby units improved abilities. Uncommonly used.

==B==
'''BE''' - Refers to the "Brenodi Empire" Team.

'''BEAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]]. Not the carnivorous mammal, BEAR no longer exists.

'''BECAR''' - The Brenodi [[Rifleman]]'s long range burst fire rifle.

'''BEHR''' - The heavier variety of the assault rifle available for the Brenodi Empire's [[Rifleman]].

'''Bio''' - Short for Biological, can be used to refer to either Biological Machine Guns or Biological Missile Launchers.

'''BioMG''' - Biological Machine Guns.

'''BioML''' - Biological Missile Launcher.

'''Bio Engine(s)''' - BioDiesel Engine.

'''Blimp''' - Running joke in Empires. To date Aircraft have had a protracted development history over a number of years and the Blimp was casually spec-chatted about as a fast-track of getting some aerial thing in Empires. It would be later much later that the community map "emp_tropicvendetta" would include two airbourne but stationary Blimps housing the CVs.

'''Boomtank''' - The [[Command Vehicle]]. Originates from before the Commander voting system was implemented, when new players would rush to the Command Vehicle and proceed to drive it around the map as if it were some kind of uber-tank, oblivious to its true purpose. It is ironic that some skilled players do use the Command Vehicle to destroy weak tanks or stop/slow bigger tanks allowing others to get a shot in without worrying about the target running. (For further satire, see: [[Noob's Guide to Empires]]). Rarely used nowadays.

==C==
'''Calculator/Calc''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''CDR''' - A prefix to the name of a map, taken to mean 'commanderless'. The only current usage of this term is in [[map:emp_cdr_canyon|emp_cdr_canyon]].

'''Chem''' - The 'Chemistry' research tree.

'''Chokepoint''' - Any point on a map that forces a team into a small geographic area--for example, a bridge, a narrow canyon, an elevator, or a gate. It is these spots in a map that are most often camped, and where battles most often take place, because both teams know that the other team must pass this particular area. These also are the routes that are most easily defendable against assault, as the assaulter is vulnerable when forced into tight quarters.

'''Comm''' – [[Commander]].

'''Comvee''' - [[Command Vehicle]]. Rarely used.

'''Comm Suicide''' - A usually malicious act of intentionally destroying one's own Command Vehicle by driving it into an unrecoverable situation (e.g. off a high cliff or into deep water). More commonly referred to as griefing, or something along the lines of: "The ****ing comm just sank himself."

'''Coolant''' - Refers to the (Advanced Coolant) engine upgrade.

'''Crash Dumps''' - Files generated by the game whenever it crashes. These files contain debugging information used by developers to track down bugs responsible for the crash.

'''CV''' - [[Command Vehicle]].

==D==
'''Decon''' - Short for "Deconstruct"; an Engineer's ability to un-build and destroy enemy structures with the engineer tool.

==E==
'''E''' - East side of map / Right side of map

'''Engy''' - The [[Engineer]] class.

'''Engy Tool''' - Engineers tool which can be used to heal/repair/build structures or units.

'''ER''' - The Extended Range cannon.

'''ETA''' - Estimated Time of Arrival (e.g. "ETA armor?!" = When will armor be done)

==F==
'''Flip''' - (Verb) In reference to when a vehicle is somehow turned upside down by any number of means; poor driving, collision, explosion, etc. Usually in reference to the command vehicle, when a grenadier uses the [[Grenadier#Tips|ninth mine trick]]. Flipped vehicles self-destruct over a short period of time to simplify game mechanics and prevent the server from being bogged down with vehicles. As in "to Flip," or "has been Flipped."

==G==
'''GG''' - Abbreviation of Good Game, not genera

'''Gren''' - The [[Grenadier]] class.

'''Griefer''' - Someone who intends to ruin the game. See 'Comm Suicide'.

==H==
'''HE''' - The High Explosive cannon.

'''HEMG''' - The High Explosive Machine Gun.

'''Heavies''' - Heavy tank.

'''HMG''' - The Heavy Machine Gun, a weapon of the [[Rifleman]].

==I==
==J==
==K==

'''Killspawn''' - Suiciding by typing "kill" in the console so that you can re-spawn at another spawn point elsewhere on the map. Useful emergency measure if immediate reinforcements are required.

==L==
'''Lights''' - The Northern Faction Light tank.

'''LT''' - The Northern Faction Light Tank.

'''Lvl/Level''' - In reference to turrets. Usually described in-game as a "lvl3", this being the third and most powerful variety of turret.

==M==
'''Main''' - The main base, usually where the VF radar and main barracks are placed. Can be the starting base, but that sometimes changes. If the original base is not the main base, it is referred to as "Old Main".

'''Meds''' - Medium tanks.

'''MG''' - Machine Gun Turret.

'''ML''' - Missile Launcher Turret.

'''Mowtar''' - Alternate spelling of the [[Grenadier|Grenadier's]] Mortar weapon.

==N==
'''N''' - North part of map / Top of map

'''Nade''' - Grenade.

'''Nader''' - Another term for a person spamming grenades.

'''Nadespam''' - The act of constantly throwing grenades into some vital area, while simultaneously restocking from an ammo box, often used by engineers with seismic grenades to take down structures. Also seen on district402.

'''NE''' - Northeast corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

'''NF''' - Refers to the [[Northern Faction]].

'''NFAR''' - The standard assault rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''NFHR''' - The heavy rifle of the Northern Faction's [[Rifleman]].

'''Ninja''' - The attempt of a player to sneak into the enemy base and destroy key structures (especially the CV) without the enemy noticing before it is too late.

'''Nukes''' - HIT Missiles, veterans call it a Nuke as that was the original term and the missile is still effectively a nuke, as it is researched under the Fission item.

'''NW''' - Northwest corner of map / Upper-right corner of map

==O==
'''OP''' - Overpowered, unfair in that it suits one side or another. "The LT Mkii is OP!"

==P==
'''Paper Tank/Arty/Armor''' - A vehicle armored with the basic (weak) armor. Also applies to tanks that have one plate of armor on all sides, regardless of armor type.

'''Partybus''' - An APC with spawns, usually refers to an APC loaded with infantry heading to the enemy base in a rush.

'''Pixerduduh''' - Vocalisation of PXR-DDH ('''P'''ortable '''X'''-'''R'''ay '''D'''etection '''D'''evice for '''H'''umanoids), a.k.a. an engineer-placed camera. Rarely used.

'''PUG''' - Acronym of ''''P'''ick-'''U'''p '''G'''ame', a community organized match frequented by veterans of Empires. A good place to show off your skills to the best of the rest in the Empires community, or, at the very least, meet some of the regulars.

==Q==
==R==
'''Rax''' - Abbreviation for [[Barracks]].

'''Ref''' - [[Refinery]].

'''Regen''' - Usually in reference to Regenerative Vehicle Armor. Sometimes refers to the Regenerate skill upgrade.

'''Res''' - Resources, the "money" for Empires and therefore required to build anything.

'''Rev''' - The act of reviving a dead player by use of the Engineer skill.

'''Rez''' - Derived from "resurrect". See 'Rev'.

'''RTFM''' - ''''R'''ead '''T'''he '''F'''*cking '''M'''anual'. Popular acronym, uttered when a new player asks an obvious question.

'''Running''' - Used to indicate that the enemy command vehicle is attempting to flee from his base while being attacked, usually a last ditch effort to relocate and set up a new base elsewhere. As in, "Heads up, the comm's running!"

==S==
'''S''' - South part of map / Bottom of map

'''Scunt''' - Insulting term for Scouts.

'''Scunting''' - Someone who could be playing another class effectively but is currently playing scout (generally poorly or with a scout rifle) for their own enjoyment.

'''SE''' - Southeast corner of map / Bottom-right corner of map

'''Shotty''' - The Northern Faction Shotgun pistol.

'''Skillstack''' - When one team has an advantage of more players with high skill.

'''SL''' - Squad Leader, the first person to join/create a squad.

'''Sploit''' - From "exploit": abusing a bug to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy. Examples include clipping into geometry, falling under the world, getting to places inaccessible by design, etc.

'''Spawnnkill''' - Getting killed the moment you spawn before you can do anything. Happens often when you are revived during a battle.

'''Spotting''' - Use of radio command or scout binoculars to mark enemy units/buildings for the sight of infantry, tanks, and artillery vehicles.

'''Stack/Stacked''' - Referring to when the teams are uneven and there are more players on one team than the other.

'''Stalingrad''' - When one team has almost defeated the other team, but ends up losing because they run out of tickets before the other team, and soon get outnumbered rarely occurs, rarely referred to as Stalingrad, more commonly known as "FUCKING BULLSHIT".

'''Sticky''' - Also, 'to have been stickied,' and 'to stick,' this refers to the various sticky grenades used by riflemen and scouts.

'''Straight Tech''' - (Verb) The action of researching a higher tier upgrade, such as heavy tanks or nuclear missiles, before completing any other research in the match. As in: "the commander straight teched heavies before getting us armor or engines."

'''Suicide''' - Often the last resort to getting "unstuck," or used to get somewhere else in a hurry; pulling down the console with the tilde (~) key, typing "kill" (without quotes) and pressing enter.

'''SW''' - Southwest corner of map / Bottom-left corner of map

==T==
'''Teams''' - Abbreviation of "The teams are imbalanced" or "Even the teams". Ingame usage "Teams!"

'''Tickets''' - How many more "lives" the team has to spare.

'''Turret Climbing''' - Rapidly building and trashing turrets as an engineer in means to build a "ladder" in order to get on top of high places. Often considered exploiting. Walls are also used.

'''Turret Farming''' - Act of creating multiple turrets in a localized area. HE or artillery is usually the reply to such a farm.

'''Turrent''' - Common misspelling of "turret". Joke term.

'''Turtling''' - Variant of 'Turret Farming', where a team relies on walls, turrets and other defensive measures to protect a small area, instead of advancing across the map. Also used as a final resort when a team is pushed back to their final barracks. Very hard to break, since the other team usually has all refineries.

==U==
'''Unstuck''' - As in the command "emp_unstuck" used to remove your avatar if it is clipped into part of the map and can't move.

==V==
'''VF''' - A [[Vehicle Factory]].

==W==
'''W''' - West side of map / Left side of map

'''Wall''' - (Verb) To rush an enemy vehicle, usually the [[Command Vehicle]], and build walls around it, thereby trapping it. As in "to wall the tank", or "I got walled in, there was nothing I could do!".

'''WallClimb''' - Using walls to gain height by utilising their "growing" behaviour as they are constructed.

==X==
==Y==
==Z==

Dedicated Server Setup

2008-12-31T12:50:03Z

Flasche: /* Bandwidth */

{{Sitenav|Dedicated Server Setup}}

== Dedicated Server (Windows) ==
=== Downloading ===
First of all you need the [http://steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.exe HLDS Update Tool]. This is what we use to update/download the server. You will also need Empires Dedicated Server from the [http://empiresmod.com/download.php Empires Download Page].

If you want to use [http://www.mani-admin-plugin.com/ Mani Admin Plugin], make sure you download it before going any further.

=== Installing ===
* First we need to download the SDS (Source Dedicated Server). To download we open up hldsupdatetool.exe and download the tool to an arbitrary location on your machine, for example:
C:\HL2DS
* When you have finished installing the update tool open the install folder in a command prompt and type:
hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game "tf" -dir C:\HL2DS

* If that doesnt work or your stuck or having trouble getting tf then you can go [http://www.srcds.com/db/engine.php?subaction=showfull&id=1097362093&archive= HERE] for a more indepth tutorial on how to get it.

{{Tip|Make sure you replace C:\HL2DS with your install path if it's different.}}

This will download all files necessary to host a Team Fortress 2 server (and Empires). And remember to "Go get yourself a cup of coffee." as valve said, this will take some time

* Install the Empires Dedicated Server files to "C:\HL2DS\orangebox\empires" (use your own install path).
* Create a shortcut of '''srcds.exe''' and place it where you want then go to properties of the shortcut. Add the following to the end of the shortcut target:
-game empires +maxplayers 14 -port 27015 -console +map emp_canyon -autoupdate
It sould look like this;
srcds.exe -game empires +maxplayers 14 -port 27015 -console +map emp_canyon -autoupdate
{{Tip|You can adjust your port and maxplayers via the shortcut or the ''server.cfg'' file.}}

=== Configuration ===
Next, edit your mapcycle.txt and server.cfg files to your liking.
{{Warning|When editing your server.cfg remember to change your '''rcon_password''' and '''hostname''' directives!}}
rcon_password "pass" //Your rcon password
hostname "Servername" //The name of your server

These are the most important settings to change, there are more in the cfg so test around what is best for you.

=== Starting ===
You should now be able to double-click your server shortcut, which will start up your dedicated server.

== Dedicated Server (Linux) ==
=== Downloading ===
First of all you need the [http://storefront.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.bin HLDS Update Tool]. This is what we use to update/download the server. You will also need Empires Dedicated Server from the [http://empiresmod.com/download.php Empires Download Page].

=== Installing SDS ===
Now we have to extract the HLDS-Update-Tool.
* Go to the homedir of the user who is designated to run the HL2-Server and create a subdir.
hl2usr@hl2srv ~ # mkdir hl2
* Copy the HLDS-Update-Tool into your new subdir and chmod it to make it executable:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # chmod +x hldsupdatetool.bin
* Run the binary:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # ./hldsupdatetool.bin
* If you get a warning about not finding "compress", go grab the "[http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/ ncompress]" package on Redhat/Fedora:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # yum install ncompress
* Now that you have finished extracting the Update-Tool you can use it to download all required files:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # ./steam -command update -game "tf" -dir .
Get yourself a cup of tea, coffee, soda, etc., and have a rest. Depending on your connection speed this can take some time

=== Installing Empires ===
Next, we have to extract the previously downloaded Empires-Server.
* Copy the zip-file (something like empires_v1xxx_server.zip) to the folder where the HLDS-Update-Tool resides (''~/hl2'' in this example) and extract it:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # unzip empires_v1xxx_server.zip -d orangebox
This command creates the directory ''~hl2/orangebox/empires'' and extracts all needed files into it.

=== Configuration ===
Before you can start your new Dedicated Server the servers config files have to be altered to satisfy your needs.
* cd to the ''"orangebox/empires"'' subdir
* Edit the file ''mapcycle.txt'' with your prefered text editor and add/remove the maps you like/don't like in your mapcycle
* cd to the config dir of your Empires installation (''~/hl2/orangebox/empires/cfg'' in this example)
* Edit the ''server.cfg'' to your liking
{{Warning|When editing your server.cfg remember to change your '''rcon_password''' and '''hostname''' directives!}}
rcon_password "pass" //Your rcon password
hostname "Servername" //The name of your server

=== Starting ===
Now your server should be ready for startup
* cd to your Dedicated-Servers basedir (''~/hl2'' in this example)
* Start the Server:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # ./srcds_run -game empires +maxplayers 14 -port 27015 -console +map emp_canyon -autoupdate
{{Tip|Use a terminal multiplexer like [http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Screen] to be able to detach the HL2-Server Console and disconnect from your servers shell without terminating the HL2-Daemon}}
* You can create a Bash-File in your Dedicated-Servers basedir to easily start your Empires-Server in a virtual Screen-Terminal:
{{ Box File|empires.sh|
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
screen -A -d -m -S empires -t empires ./srcds_run -game empires +maxplayers 14 -port 27015 -console +map emp_canyon -autoupdate
</pre>
}}
Please note that if you wish to retain explicit control over when updates happen on your server you can omit the -autoupdate option.
* Now make the Bash-File executable and run it:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # chmod +x empires.sh
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # ./empires.sh
The Dedicated-Server now runs in the background. You can attach to the Screen-Terminal by typing:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # screen -r empires

You can detach from the Screen-Terminal and leave the server running by typing a Control-a followed by "d".

To stop the server, reattach to the Screen-Terminal and type Control-c.

If you intend to run multiple servers then you will need to set a unique value for the port used & the the Screen-Terminal name used via the -port & -S options in the above command.

=== Monitoring server resources ===
==== Bandwidth ====
For monitor server bandwidth you can use "iftop" which will display bandwidth consumption on a per port/connections basis. NB: This program needs to run as '''root'''.

Assuming your running empires on the default 27015 port the follow will filter to show only empires traffic:
<pre>
root@hl2srv ~/hl2 # iftop -P -f "port 27015"
</pre>

A lightly loaded server with 4 active players and 7 recently departed:
<pre>
50.0Kb 100Kb 150Kb 200Kb 250Kb
└───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> guru239.netsonic.fi:13765 43.1Kb 44.8Kb 44.5Kb
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> 71-213-216-109.sxcy.:27005 41.1Kb 43.8Kb 41.2Kb
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> cc300737-b.hnglo1.ov:27005 40.7Kb 42.2Kb 36.8Kb
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> dynamic-acs-24-239-4:27011 27.7Kb 27.9Kb 33.7Kb
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> host-091-097-139-118:49167 0b 175b 44b
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> 120.139.76-8:netview-aix-8 0b 0b 44b
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> ANice-754-1-3-:megaco-h248 0b 0b 44b
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> host86-139-6-13.rang:64937 0b 0b 44b
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> daruck-69-4.gimp.co:finger 0b 0b 44b
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> c24-143-85-34.s:t1distproc 0b 0b 44b
oneltdhost.net:27015 <=> 213-67-55-231-no157.:57200 0b 0b 44b

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
TX: cumm: 824KB peak: 88.7Kb rates: 66.0Kb 69.9Kb 72.9Kb
RX: 798KB 92.1Kb 86.6Kb 89.0Kb 83.5Kb
TOTAL: 1.58MB 174Kb 153Kb 159Kb 156Kb
</pre>

Furthermore, you can hit the "t" key to display each connection on a single line rather than show receive and transmit on two lines.

==== CPU/Disk ====
For CPU usage you can use top (default installed all linux distros), htop (enhanced 'top') or atop.

[http://htop.sourceforge.net/ htop] gives a very good "at-a-glance" showing overall CPU core load, memory usage and the top dozen or so processes.

<pre>

1 [|| 2.0%] Tasks: 85 total, 2 running
2 [|||||||| 23.3%] Load average: 0.36 0.23 0.14
Mem[||||||||||||||||||||845/3934MB] Uptime: 10 days, 02:41:32
Swp[| 30/1913MB]

PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
27647 hl2 -3 0 161M 94724 12344 S 57.0 2.4 14:37.76 ./srcds_i486 -game
12337 daruck 20 0 468M 210M 3400 R 8.0 5.3 13h08:54 ./isagimp
27649 hl2 -3 0 161M 94724 12344 S 5.0 2.4 1:38.01 ./srcds_i486 -game
28030 hl2 20 0 14984 1160 912 R 1.0 0.0 0:04.71 htop
27997 hl2 0 -20 15464 3188 2424 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.20 atop
11298 named 20 0 177M 31556 2196 S 0.0 0.8 34:28.57 /usr/sbin/named -u
11296 named 20 0 177M 31556 2196 S 0.0 0.8 30:05.04 /usr/sbin/named -u
11295 named 20 0 177M 31556 2196 S 0.0 0.8 25:34.77 /usr/sbin/named -u
2149 mysql 20 0 324M 41132 5068 S 0.0 1.0 2h02:27 /usr/libexec/mysql
2163 mysql 20 0 324M 41132 5068 S 0.0 1.0 50:19.25 /usr/libexec/mysql
1 root 20 0 10308 716 596 S 0.0 0.0 0:08.52 init [2]
556 root 16 -4 12588 768 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.50 /sbin/udevd -d
1668 root 20 0 6684 916 432 S 0.0 0.0 2:50.50 /sbin/dhclient -1
1728 rpc 20 0 18660 624 424 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.63 rpcbind
1748 root 20 0 21044 1316 564 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.15 pcscd
1756 root 20 0 90636 1292 648 S 0.0 0.0 4:56.45 rsyslogd -m 0
F1Help F2Setup F3SearchF4InvertF5Tree F6SortByF7Nice -F8Nice +F9Kill F10Quit
</pre>

[http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop/download-atop.html atop] will give you the missing Hard disk activity monitor by way of the "DSK" line's "busy" percentage:
<pre>
ATOP - oneltdhost 2008/12/31 12:38:24 10 seconds elapsed
PRC | sys 1.10s | user 5.76s | #proc 121 | #zombie 0 | #exit 0 |
CPU | sys 4% | user 21% | irq 0% | idle 174% | wait 0% |
cpu | sys 2% | user 19% | irq 0% | idle 78% | cpu001 w 0% |
cpu | sys 2% | user 1% | irq 0% | idle 97% | cpu000 w 0% |
CPL | avg1 0.19 | avg5 0.20 | avg15 0.12 | csw 18728 | intr 3847 |
MEM | tot 3.8G | free 93.8M | cache 2.9G | buff 4.4M | slab 306.0M |
SWP | tot 1.9G | free 1.8G | | vmcom 972.8M | vmlim 3.8G |
DSK | sda | busy 0% | read 12 | write 9 | avio 1 ms |
NET | transport | tcpi 679 | tcpo 704 | udpi 805 | udpo 620 |
NET | network | ipi 1498 | ipo 1332 | ipfrw 0 | deliv 1485 |
NET | eth0 0% | pcki 1498 | pcko 1332 | si 344 Kbps | so 279 Kbps |

PID SYSCPU USRCPU VGROW RGROW RDDSK WRDSK ST EXC S CPU CMD 1/1
27647 0.73s 5.55s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 62% srcds_i486
2149 0.07s 0.11s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 2% mysqld
28030 0.10s 0.03s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 1% cheese
27997 0.03s 0.00s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - R 0% and
11294 0.00s 0.01s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 0% biscuits
12336 0.00s 0.00s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 0% screen
</pre>

== Tip and Tricks ==
=== Modularise server.cfg settings ===
As the server.cfg (amongst others) can be overwritten during upgrade and you may wish to have your server run in different "modes" such as password protected clan match/practice, increase resource rates for "tank wars", etc it's best to treat your server.cfg as "read-only" and any default settings you wish to have place them in a unique filename e.g. myserver.cfg then add a single line to the end of server.cfg "exec myserver.cfg"

This way server.cfg will then run myserver.cfg and override any server.cfg settings.
For example to set your server's hostname you'd add the following to myserver.cfg
<pre>
hostname "My Empires Server"
</pre>

In addition to myserver.cfg you can then create modified files to accommodate your various server "modes" which can either be called via
<pre>
rcon exec tankwars.cfg
</pre>
Or if you want this mode to automatically survive a map change/server restart, add another line to server.cfg below your "exec myserver.cfg" entry.

== Related Links ==
* [http://server.counter-strike.net/server.php?cmd=cmdall General HL2 Directives/Commands]
* [http://www.mani-admin-plugin.com/ Mani Admin Plugin]

Dedicated Server Setup

2008-12-31T12:44:22Z

Flasche: /* Dedicated Server (Linux) */

{{Sitenav|Dedicated Server Setup}}

== Dedicated Server (Windows) ==
=== Downloading ===
First of all you need the [http://steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.exe HLDS Update Tool]. This is what we use to update/download the server. You will also need Empires Dedicated Server from the [http://empiresmod.com/download.php Empires Download Page].

If you want to use [http://www.mani-admin-plugin.com/ Mani Admin Plugin], make sure you download it before going any further.

=== Installing ===
* First we need to download the SDS (Source Dedicated Server). To download we open up hldsupdatetool.exe and download the tool to an arbitrary location on your machine, for example:
C:\HL2DS
* When you have finished installing the update tool open the install folder in a command prompt and type:
hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game "tf" -dir C:\HL2DS

* If that doesnt work or your stuck or having trouble getting tf then you can go [http://www.srcds.com/db/engine.php?subaction=showfull&id=1097362093&archive= HERE] for a more indepth tutorial on how to get it.

{{Tip|Make sure you replace C:\HL2DS with your install path if it's different.}}

This will download all files necessary to host a Team Fortress 2 server (and Empires). And remember to "Go get yourself a cup of coffee." as valve said, this will take some time

* Install the Empires Dedicated Server files to "C:\HL2DS\orangebox\empires" (use your own install path).
* Create a shortcut of '''srcds.exe''' and place it where you want then go to properties of the shortcut. Add the following to the end of the shortcut target:
-game empires +maxplayers 14 -port 27015 -console +map emp_canyon -autoupdate
It sould look like this;
srcds.exe -game empires +maxplayers 14 -port 27015 -console +map emp_canyon -autoupdate
{{Tip|You can adjust your port and maxplayers via the shortcut or the ''server.cfg'' file.}}

=== Configuration ===
Next, edit your mapcycle.txt and server.cfg files to your liking.
{{Warning|When editing your server.cfg remember to change your '''rcon_password''' and '''hostname''' directives!}}
rcon_password "pass" //Your rcon password
hostname "Servername" //The name of your server

These are the most important settings to change, there are more in the cfg so test around what is best for you.

=== Starting ===
You should now be able to double-click your server shortcut, which will start up your dedicated server.

== Dedicated Server (Linux) ==
=== Downloading ===
First of all you need the [http://storefront.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.bin HLDS Update Tool]. This is what we use to update/download the server. You will also need Empires Dedicated Server from the [http://empiresmod.com/download.php Empires Download Page].

=== Installing SDS ===
Now we have to extract the HLDS-Update-Tool.
* Go to the homedir of the user who is designated to run the HL2-Server and create a subdir.
hl2usr@hl2srv ~ # mkdir hl2
* Copy the HLDS-Update-Tool into your new subdir and chmod it to make it executable:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # chmod +x hldsupdatetool.bin
* Run the binary:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # ./hldsupdatetool.bin
* If you get a warning about not finding "compress", go grab the "[http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/ ncompress]" package on Redhat/Fedora:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # yum install ncompress
* Now that you have finished extracting the Update-Tool you can use it to download all required files:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # ./steam -command update -game "tf" -dir .
Get yourself a cup of tea, coffee, soda, etc., and have a rest. Depending on your connection speed this can take some time

=== Installing Empires ===
Next, we have to extract the previously downloaded Empires-Server.
* Copy the zip-file (something like empires_v1xxx_server.zip) to the folder where the HLDS-Update-Tool resides (''~/hl2'' in this example) and extract it:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # unzip empires_v1xxx_server.zip -d orangebox
This command creates the directory ''~hl2/orangebox/empires'' and extracts all needed files into it.

=== Configuration ===
Before you can start your new Dedicated Server the servers config files have to be altered to satisfy your needs.
* cd to the ''"orangebox/empires"'' subdir
* Edit the file ''mapcycle.txt'' with your prefered text editor and add/remove the maps you like/don't like in your mapcycle
* cd to the config dir of your Empires installation (''~/hl2/orangebox/empires/cfg'' in this example)
* Edit the ''server.cfg'' to your liking
{{Warning|When editing your server.cfg remember to change your '''rcon_password''' and '''hostname''' directives!}}
rcon_password "pass" //Your rcon password
hostname "Servername" //The name of your server

=== Starting ===
Now your server should be ready for startup
* cd to your Dedicated-Servers basedir (''~/hl2'' in this example)
* Start the Server:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # ./srcds_run -game empires +maxplayers 14 -port 27015 -console +map emp_canyon -autoupdate
{{Tip|Use a terminal multiplexer like [http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Screen] to be able to detach the HL2-Server Console and disconnect from your servers shell without terminating the HL2-Daemon}}
* You can create a Bash-File in your Dedicated-Servers basedir to easily start your Empires-Server in a virtual Screen-Terminal:
{{ Box File|empires.sh|
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
screen -A -d -m -S empires -t empires ./srcds_run -game empires +maxplayers 14 -port 27015 -console +map emp_canyon -autoupdate
</pre>
}}
Please note that if you wish to retain explicit control over when updates happen on your server you can omit the -autoupdate option.
* Now make the Bash-File executable and run it:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # chmod +x empires.sh
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # ./empires.sh
The Dedicated-Server now runs in the background. You can attach to the Screen-Terminal by typing:
hl2usr@hl2srv ~/hl2 # screen -r empires

You can detach from the Screen-Terminal and leave the server running by typing a Control-a followed by "d".

To stop the server, reattach to the Screen-Terminal and type Control-c.

If you intend to run multiple servers then you will need to set a unique value for the port used & the the Screen-Terminal name used via the -port & -S options in the above command.

=== Monitoring server resources ===
==== Bandwidth ====
For monitor server bandwidth you can use "iftop" which will display bandwidth consumption on a per port/connections basis. NB: This program needs to run as '''root'''.

Assuming your running empires on the default 27015 port the follow will filter to show only empires traffic:
<pre>
root@hl2srv ~/hl2 # iftop -P -f "port 27015"
</pre>

Furthermore, you can hit the "t" key to display each connection on a single line rather than show receive and transmit on two lines.

==== CPU/Disk ====
For CPU usage you can use top (default installed all linux distros), htop (enhanced 'top') or atop.

[http://htop.sourceforge.net/ htop] gives a very good "at-a-glance" showing overall CPU core load, memory usage and the top dozen or so processes.

<pre>

1 [|| 2.0%] Tasks: 85 total, 2 running
2 [|||||||| 23.3%] Load average: 0.36 0.23 0.14
Mem[||||||||||||||||||||845/3934MB] Uptime: 10 days, 02:41:32
Swp[| 30/1913MB]

PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
27647 hl2 -3 0 161M 94724 12344 S 57.0 2.4 14:37.76 ./srcds_i486 -game
12337 daruck 20 0 468M 210M 3400 R 8.0 5.3 13h08:54 ./isagimp
27649 hl2 -3 0 161M 94724 12344 S 5.0 2.4 1:38.01 ./srcds_i486 -game
28030 hl2 20 0 14984 1160 912 R 1.0 0.0 0:04.71 htop
27997 hl2 0 -20 15464 3188 2424 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.20 atop
11298 named 20 0 177M 31556 2196 S 0.0 0.8 34:28.57 /usr/sbin/named -u
11296 named 20 0 177M 31556 2196 S 0.0 0.8 30:05.04 /usr/sbin/named -u
11295 named 20 0 177M 31556 2196 S 0.0 0.8 25:34.77 /usr/sbin/named -u
2149 mysql 20 0 324M 41132 5068 S 0.0 1.0 2h02:27 /usr/libexec/mysql
2163 mysql 20 0 324M 41132 5068 S 0.0 1.0 50:19.25 /usr/libexec/mysql
1 root 20 0 10308 716 596 S 0.0 0.0 0:08.52 init [2]
556 root 16 -4 12588 768 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.50 /sbin/udevd -d
1668 root 20 0 6684 916 432 S 0.0 0.0 2:50.50 /sbin/dhclient -1
1728 rpc 20 0 18660 624 424 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.63 rpcbind
1748 root 20 0 21044 1316 564 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.15 pcscd
1756 root 20 0 90636 1292 648 S 0.0 0.0 4:56.45 rsyslogd -m 0
F1Help F2Setup F3SearchF4InvertF5Tree F6SortByF7Nice -F8Nice +F9Kill F10Quit
</pre>

[http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop/download-atop.html atop] will give you the missing Hard disk activity monitor by way of the "DSK" line's "busy" percentage:
<pre>
ATOP - oneltdhost 2008/12/31 12:38:24 10 seconds elapsed
PRC | sys 1.10s | user 5.76s | #proc 121 | #zombie 0 | #exit 0 |
CPU | sys 4% | user 21% | irq 0% | idle 174% | wait 0% |
cpu | sys 2% | user 19% | irq 0% | idle 78% | cpu001 w 0% |
cpu | sys 2% | user 1% | irq 0% | idle 97% | cpu000 w 0% |
CPL | avg1 0.19 | avg5 0.20 | avg15 0.12 | csw 18728 | intr 3847 |
MEM | tot 3.8G | free 93.8M | cache 2.9G | buff 4.4M | slab 306.0M |
SWP | tot 1.9G | free 1.8G | | vmcom 972.8M | vmlim 3.8G |
DSK | sda | busy 0% | read 12 | write 9 | avio 1 ms |
NET | transport | tcpi 679 | tcpo 704 | udpi 805 | udpo 620 |
NET | network | ipi 1498 | ipo 1332 | ipfrw 0 | deliv 1485 |
NET | eth0 0% | pcki 1498 | pcko 1332 | si 344 Kbps | so 279 Kbps |

PID SYSCPU USRCPU VGROW RGROW RDDSK WRDSK ST EXC S CPU CMD 1/1
27647 0.73s 5.55s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 62% srcds_i486
2149 0.07s 0.11s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 2% mysqld
28030 0.10s 0.03s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 1% cheese
27997 0.03s 0.00s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - R 0% and
11294 0.00s 0.01s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 0% biscuits
12336 0.00s 0.00s 0K 0K 0K 0K -- - S 0% screen
</pre>

== Tip and Tricks ==
=== Modularise server.cfg settings ===
As the server.cfg (amongst others) can be overwritten during upgrade and you may wish to have your server run in different "modes" such as password protected clan match/practice, increase resource rates for "tank wars", etc it's best to treat your server.cfg as "read-only" and any default settings you wish to have place them in a unique filename e.g. myserver.cfg then add a single line to the end of server.cfg "exec myserver.cfg"

This way server.cfg will then run myserver.cfg and override any server.cfg settings.
For example to set your server's hostname you'd add the following to myserver.cfg
<pre>
hostname "My Empires Server"
</pre>

In addition to myserver.cfg you can then create modified files to accommodate your various server "modes" which can either be called via
<pre>
rcon exec tankwars.cfg
</pre>
Or if you want this mode to automatically survive a map change/server restart, add another line to server.cfg below your "exec myserver.cfg" entry.

== Related Links ==
* [http://server.counter-strike.net/server.php?cmd=cmdall General HL2 Directives/Commands]
* [http://www.mani-admin-plugin.com/ Mani Admin Plugin]

Dedicated Server Setup

2008-12-31T12:18:39Z

Flasche: /* Starting */

Dedicated Server Setup

2008-12-31T12:16:55Z

Flasche:

Dedicated Server Setup

2008-12-29T18:24:46Z

Flasche: /* Installing SDS */

Dedicated Server Setup

2008-12-29T18:24:18Z

Flasche: /* Installing SDS */

Dedicated Server Setup

2008-12-29T18:10:49Z

Flasche: /* Starting */

Dedicated Server Setup

2008-12-29T18:08:53Z

Flasche: /* Installing SDS */

APC

2006-05-13T22:55:11Z

Flasche:

{{Sitenav|[[Vehicles]] > APC}}
[[Image:NFAPC.jpg|thumb|right|Northern Faction APC]]
[[Image:BEAPC.JPG|thumb|right|Brenodi Empire APC]]
The armoured personnel carriers's role is for the safe transportation of infantry through hostile territory. It is lightly armored but more resiliant to attack than the [[Jeep]], while generally sacrificing speed. However, it can be customized for greater speed by stripping any defensive weaponry and installing a better engine.

As of 1.04, the APC has a new function: mobile spawn point. Players can choose to spawn at any APC and will appear inside of it if there is space availiable. If there is no empty space, the player appears outside of the APC.

== Stats ==
* Seats: 8
* Non-Equipped Cost: 60
* Non-Equipped Weight: 300/600
* Heat Capacity: 100
* Availability: [[Northern]] and [[Imperial]]

== Armor Plates ==
* Front: 2
* Sides: 3
* Back: 2

== Weapon Slots ==
* Weapon Slots:
* Machine Guns: 3
* Grenade Launchers: 3

[[Category:Vehicles|APC]]

Skills

2006-05-13T22:23:52Z

Flasche: /* Engineer */

{{Sitenav|Skills}}

[[Image:Class_selection.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Notice the skill boxes on the bottom]]
Skills are generally gained by earning rank points, which are rewarded when players:
* Kill other players
* Destroy enemy structures
* Destroy enemy vehicles
* Repair 100 units worth of structures or equipment (excluding your own structures, but including dis-assembly of enemy equipment)
* Heal 200 health points of friendly players
* Revive a dead teammate (using the [[Engineer]]'s class-specific "Revive" skill)
* Command
* Participate in [[Squads]]

For each rank, the number of skill points needed to progress to the next rank increases. Once you gain enough skill points to advance to the next rank, a new skill slot is opened in the class selection dialogue.

== General Skills ==
[[Image:Generalskills.JPG|thumb|right|General Skills]]
* '''Health Upgrade:''' Increases your maximum amount of health to 130% (Use the medkit in the armory to achieve this health after spawning).
* '''Health Regeneration:''' Slowly regenerates health.
* '''Ammo Increase:''' Increases your total amount of carryable ammo by a factor of two (carry twice as much ammo).
* '''Stamina Increase:''' Increases your total available stamina.
* '''Speed Upgrade:''' Your normal speed is faster, but you slowly lose stamina.
* '''Accuracy Upgrade:''' Increases accuracy while stopped and moving.
* '''Melee Upgrade:''' Increases the damage, range, and area covered by your melee attacks.

== Class-Specific Skills ==
In addition to general skills, each class has a set of its own unique abilities. These skills can be accessed on the Skill Selection screen by expanding the dropdown in the upper-left side and choosing the '''Class-Specific''' option.

=== Engineer ===
[[Image:Engyskills.JPG|thumb|right|Engineer Skills]]
* '''Healing Upgrade:''' Increases the rate at which you heal team mates.
* '''Repair Upgrade:''' Increases the rate at which you repair friendly structures and vehicles and dis-assemble the enemy's. Considered the most powerful of the [[Engineer]]'s skills.
* '''Turret Upgrade:''' Allows the [[Engineer]] to upgrade their own turrets past level 1.
* '''Revive:''' Allows the [[Engineer]] to bring a fallen team mate back to life (refunding a ticket in the process.) Select your engineer tool and use it on the fallen teammate. Has a limited range. Will not work on a player who suicided.
* '''Vehicle Cooling''' Increases the rate of driven vehicles heat dissipation by 10%.

=== Grenadier ===
[[Image:Grenadierskills.JPG|thumb|right|Grenadier Skills]]
* '''Defuse:''' Allows the [[Grenadier]] to remove enemy mines from the field, clearing the way for others to safely pass. Grenadiers can also step on mines and drive on them without harm.
* '''Artillery Feedback:''' Shows an indicator on the minimap in form of a white diamond the location of the last shell exploded (from mortar, RPG, or vehicle-mounted missile launchers).
* '''Armor Detection:''' Allows the [[Grenadier]] to know the health of enemy vehicles. When the crosshair is pointed at an enemy vehicle, the percent health of that side of the vehicle's armor will be displayed in white letters above the crosshair.
* '''Increased Armor:''' Reduces damage dealt to the armor of a vehicle piloted by the grenadier.

=== Scout ===
[[Image:Scoutskills.JPG|thumb|right|Scout Skills]]
* '''Hide:''' Become transparent while crouching for five seconds, one second less with each promotion. The [[Scout]] becomes less visible with more of his body touching a wall or walls. Automatically deactivates when firing, standing again, or taking damage. Will conceal Scout from turrets.
* '''Enchanced Senses:''' Enemies appear on minimap. Needs Editing.
* '''Weapon Silencer:''' Reduces weapon noise by 50%, hides kill and death messages.
* '''Vehicle Speed:''' Increase speed of Scout's vehicle by 20%.
* '''Radar Stealth:''' Reduce vehicle detectability-- minimap? Main Screen? Needs Editing.

=== Rifleman ===
[[Image:Riflemanskills.JPG|thumb|right|Rifleman Skills]]
* '''Dig In:''' Reduces explosion damage by 70% while crouching.
* '''Improved Rifle Damage:''' Increases Rifle and Pistol damage by 10%.
* '''Improved Vehicle Damage:''' Increase vehicle weapon damage by 10%

Skills

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Flasche: /* Engineer */

{{Sitenav|Skills}}

[[Image:Class_selection.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Notice the skill boxes on the bottom]]
Skills are generally gained by earning rank points, which are rewarded when players:
* Kill other players
* Destroy enemy structures
* Destroy enemy vehicles
* Repair 100 units worth of structures or equipment (excluding your own structures, but including dis-assembly of enemy equipment)
* Heal 200 health points of friendly players
* Revive a dead teammate (using the [[Engineer]]'s class-specific "Revive" skill)
* Command
* Participate in [[Squads]]

For each rank, the number of skill points needed to progress to the next rank increases. Once you gain enough skill points to advance to the next rank, a new skill slot is opened in the class selection dialogue.

== General Skills ==
[[Image:Generalskills.JPG|thumb|right|General Skills]]
* '''Health Upgrade:''' Increases your maximum amount of health to 130% (Use the medkit in the armory to achieve this health after spawning).
* '''Health Regeneration:''' Slowly regenerates health.
* '''Ammo Increase:''' Increases your total amount of carryable ammo by a factor of two (carry twice as much ammo).
* '''Stamina Increase:''' Increases your total available stamina.
* '''Speed Upgrade:''' Your normal speed is faster, but you slowly lose stamina.
* '''Accuracy Upgrade:''' Increases accuracy while stopped and moving.
* '''Melee Upgrade:''' Increases the damage, range, and area covered by your melee attacks.

== Class-Specific Skills ==
In addition to general skills, each class has a set of its own unique abilities. These skills can be accessed on the Skill Selection screen by expanding the dropdown in the upper-left side and choosing the '''Class-Specific''' option.

=== Engineer ===
[[Image:Engyskills.JPG|thumb|right|Engineer Skills]]
* '''Healing Upgrade:''' Increases the rate at which you heal team mates.
* '''Repair Upgrade:''' Increases the rate at which you repair friendly structures and vehicles and deconstruct enemy ones. Considered the most powerful of the [[Engineer]]'s skills.
* '''Turret Upgrade:''' Allows the [[Engineer]] to upgrade their own turrets past level 1.
* '''Revive:''' Allows the [[Engineer]] to bring a fallen team mate back to life (refunding a ticket in the process.) Select your engineer tool and use it on the fallen teammate. Has a limited range. Will not work on a player who suicided.
* '''Vehicle Cooling''' Increases the rate of driven vehicles heat dissipation by 10%.

=== Grenadier ===
[[Image:Grenadierskills.JPG|thumb|right|Grenadier Skills]]
* '''Defuse:''' Allows the [[Grenadier]] to remove enemy mines from the field, clearing the way for others to safely pass. Grenadiers can also step on mines and drive on them without harm.
* '''Artillery Feedback:''' Shows an indicator on the minimap in form of a white diamond the location of the last shell exploded (from mortar, RPG, or vehicle-mounted missile launchers).
* '''Armor Detection:''' Allows the [[Grenadier]] to know the health of enemy vehicles. When the crosshair is pointed at an enemy vehicle, the percent health of that side of the vehicle's armor will be displayed in white letters above the crosshair.
* '''Increased Armor:''' Reduces damage dealt to the armor of a vehicle piloted by the grenadier.

=== Scout ===
[[Image:Scoutskills.JPG|thumb|right|Scout Skills]]
* '''Hide:''' Become transparent while crouching for five seconds, one second less with each promotion. The [[Scout]] becomes less visible with more of his body touching a wall or walls. Automatically deactivates when firing, standing again, or taking damage. Will conceal Scout from turrets.
* '''Enchanced Senses:''' Enemies appear on minimap. Needs Editing.
* '''Weapon Silencer:''' Reduces weapon noise by 50%, hides kill and death messages.
* '''Vehicle Speed:''' Increase speed of Scout's vehicle by 20%.
* '''Radar Stealth:''' Reduce vehicle detectability-- minimap? Main Screen? Needs Editing.

=== Rifleman ===
[[Image:Riflemanskills.JPG|thumb|right|Rifleman Skills]]
* '''Dig In:''' Reduces explosion damage by 70% while crouching.
* '''Improved Rifle Damage:''' Increases Rifle and Pistol damage by 10%.
* '''Improved Vehicle Damage:''' Increase vehicle weapon damage by 10%