Maybe ideal for new player (under construction). So please add something useful here.
Characters
List of used abbreviations in Zero-K
A
- AA - Anti Air
- AoE - Area of Effect (splash damage)
B
- BB - Big Bertha - the long range cannon
C
- com(m) - Commander - the starting unit
- con - Construction Unit - any mobile unit with ability to build stuff
D
- dgun - (from Disintegrator Gun) - class of special weapons that need manual activation using "D" key - for example Dante's missile volley or special commander weapons
- DPS - Damage Per Second
- DRP - Disco Rave Party - the superweapon
E
- E - Energy - the resource
- eco - Economy - all resource-producing units and buildings
- elo - a rating system used for balancing games basing on estimated players skill
- EMP - ElectroMagnetic Pulse - paralyzer weapons
G
- geo - Geothermal Powerplant or the spot where it can be built
- grid - energy grid - system of connected energy sources, part of overdrive. Structures are in the same grid if their "circles" touch.
H
- HLT - Heavy Laser Tower
L
- LLT - Light Laser Tower
- link - to link disconnected parts of energy grid together OR to link shields together
- los - line of sight
M
- M - Metal - the resource
- mex - Metal Extractor, to mex the action of constructing extractors on untapped metal spots
- (E)MG - Machine Gun
- MT - Misisle Tower, seldom Misisle Truck
N
- nap - to kidnap - usually "comnap" - capture enemy commander with air transport
O
- OD - OverDrive - overdrive pumps spare energy to metal extractors to improve their output, see economic section of the manual
- OP - OverPowered - something is considered too good for its cost (eg a unit/module/ability)
P
- porc - (from porcupine) - heavy defenses, usually useless
- porcing - playing too defensively, not taking enough land
- PW - PlanetWars - the online multiplayer campaign
R
- rec - Reclaim - command to recycle units, wreckages and map features
- ress/rez - Ressurection - ability to recreate unit from its wreckage
S
- SAM - Surface to Air Missile
- selfd - Self Destruct - usually meant as an encouragement to self destruct all your things using CTRL+A, CTRL+D keys to end the game
U
- UP - UnderPowered - something is considered too weak for its cost (eg a unit/module/ability)
Z
- ZK - Zero Kelvin - the name of this game