List of terms used in Cyber Nations

This list originated from this forum thread.

CyberNation terms

admin

The creator of Cybernations and managers of the boards (one awesome guy), His real name is Kevin and he is often referred to as Kevin

admin bomb

(had to add it) the admin setting everything in your account to zero such as infrastructure, tech, money, soldiers, etc., Is often used if you attack or nuke the administrators nations, in other words DONT DO IT!

Axis of Awesome

Group of allied alliances which include most notibly NPO, NpO, and GOONS (Basically this is the earliest group of Initiative Alliances)

BB

Big Boards, CyberNations Forums (used by some alliances in their offsites)

Clustering

a method that is often used to protect the members of an alliance, involving the association of 4-5 nations of similar strength, so that if one is attacked, the other's can fill the attacked's war slots completly. (an old and now illegal attack tactic)

CM

Cruise Missile

CN

CyberNations game

CNARF

Cyber Nations Anti-Rogue Force : nations who volunteer to respond to a rogue attacks on a unalignied nations, who asked for help. (No longer officially exists, was destroyed several months ago because of attacks on allied nations. some still claim to be CNARF)

CN forums

Cybernations forums (your here now!)

CoaLUEtion

Series of alliances who fought against the NPO and NpO in the Great War. The alliances rallied around the LUEnited Nations, thus creating the CoaLUEtion

Cyberverse

the imaginary world in which your nation resides, geographically identical to planet Earth

FtLoGTotC Pact

The "For the Love of God, Think of the Children! Pact" : a No-Nuclear First Strikes treaty, signed by many alliances

GRL

Global Radiation Level, and in-game indicator of the level of radiation in the cyberverse. Radiation is cause by nations using nuclear weapons. The higher the radiation level, the lower your environment.

infra

Infrastructure

Initiative, The

A large MQDP between NPO, NpO, >_<, TOP, VE, GGA, CIS, FAN, GOONS, NoR

League, The

A large MDP between NAAC, GOLD, GATO, LUE, ICP, OIN, ACID, LoSS, CDS (LUE left after the second Great War)

MAD

Mutually Assured Distruction, a doctrine of military strategy in which the use of nuclear weapons by opposing sides in a war would result in the destruction of both parties (may also refer to Mutually Assured Defense, a minor unsanctioned alliance)

MAP

Mutual Aggression Pact or Mutual Agreement Pact, which is just a stronger version of a NAP.

MDP

Mutual Defense Pact

MVK

Miles' signature that everyone rips off (basically it is just signing your name to something without writing out your name)

NAP

Non-Agression Pact: A formal Agreement between to or more alliances which prevents the alliances from attacking each other

Northern Defense Front

Another large MDP between MDC, NoR, ANGIL, ENA, UGO, FFC, Illuminati and OIN (rapidly growing so this may not always be up to date)

NPOwned

Get owned by New Pacific Order

NS

(when refering to CN) nation strength, strength of your Cyber Nation

(other) NationStates, another online nation leading game. More primitive than CN. Some major alliances migrated from NS to CN. Many CN players also play NS

Offsites

Your alliance's Forum which is not on the CyberNations forums

Onsites

CyberNations Forum

PIAT

Peace, Intelligence and Aid Treaty (also see TOA)

Planet Bob

The "Earth" of the Cyberverse, identical geography to Earth of Real Life (also see Cyberverse)

Pop

population of your nation

Rogue

(very disputed term) any nation who will randomly attack other nations OR any nation who attacks aligned nations randomly OR any nation who is not in an alliance

tech

technology

tech raiding

attacking an inactive / soon to be deleted nation to get their technology cheaply and easily.

TOA

Treaty of amity. Works as NAP and as a Weak MAP.

TWE

Treaty with Enemies

Update/Update Time

When the server hits midnight and you can collect taxes again

WAE

Worst Alliance Ever. A derogatory label used primarily by NPO members when referring to GATO. Started by GOONS

WMDP

Weak Mutual Defence Pact. You really should help your allies, but you don't need to.

ZI Club

having zero infrastructure, or commonly used as being totally destroyed

General Terms

admin

administrator, manages online forums or games

AE

Astro Empires, another online game like CyberNations only in space. Many CN players play AE also.

assassination

killing someone of importance or someone famous (ex: president, famous actor, etc)

CC

Cyber Citizens, Cyber Nation's sister game. created by kevin the admin, allows you to make and control a person you create.

FFS

for ****'s sake

Flame

showing anger at another person in an inappropriate way, such as insults, name calling, etc.

Flamebait

posts that are made to anger someone indirectly, not stating that they have a problem with the person but implying it.

FTL

for the lose

FTW

For the win

GL

Game Life

Godwins law

As an Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 100%.

IC

In Character

IBL

In Before Lock, commonly found in spam/flamebait topics.

IMO

In My opinion

IMP / Imperium

a guild on AE, founded and made up by CN players banding together

ITT / itt

in this thread

lawl

another way to say lol (laugh out loud)

lol

laugh out loud

LUEicide

the willing suicide of a message board account by way of Terms of Service violations. The idea being that one attemps to break every rule the message board has in place, and in breaking those rules one typically attemps to be as offensive as possible. However, styles may vary from person to person.

Mask

On a forum its a way to let certain members see only what the Admins want them too. Can let you see some things and not other things.

mods / moderators

they help the admins manage the forums

OMG

Oh my God

O noez

oh no, uh-oh (other spellings: Oh Noes, Oh Gnoes, etc.)

OOC

Out of Character

OP

Original Post(er) (Usually used to refer to the original point of the topic, after replying to something else in the thread that is not strictly on-topic)

Pown

combination of pwn and own (used very rarely)

Pwned

defeated, describes the loser of the battle

QFT

Quoted For Truth

RL

Real Life

RP / RPing

Role Playing, pretending your someone you are not (that is what the basis of Cyber Nations is, you RP a leader of a nation)

Sig.

short for signature, created in your member CP: they appear underneath your posts in all threads.

tl;dr

too long; didnt read, Most often used in massive threads that are too long to read

Topic Hijacking

changing the discussion topic of a thread purposefully

Trolling

making a thread aimed at angering a group instead of just an individual

VFABIC

Voted for all because I could

Wiki

Short for Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit or make a new page on. Often members will make Wiki's for their alliance in Cybernations

WTF?

What the ****?

XD

A smiley face you use when somethin's really funny

ZOMG

Used the same as OMG (Oh My God), often used in a sarcastic tone

Alliance Acronyms

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AID

The Alliance of Independency and Democracy

AoW

Allies of War

CCC

Christian Coalition of Countries

CDS

Coalition of Dark States

CIS

Confederacy of Independent States

CON

Confederation of Organized Nations

CSN

Commonwealth of Sovereign Nations

DDA

Dark Developments Alliance (merged with MDC)

FCC

Fifth Column Confederation

GATO

Global Alliance and Treaty Organization

GC

Grey Council

GGA

Grand Global Alliance

GOLD

Global Organization for Liberty and Defense

GOONS

Goon Order Of Neutral Shoving

GPA

Green Protection Agency

ICP

International Communist Party

IRON

Independent Republic of Orange Nations

LOSS

League of Small Superpowers

LSF

Libertarian Socialist Federation

LUE

LUEnited Nations

MAD

Mutually Assured Defense

MDC

Maroon Defense Coalition

MHA

Mostly Harmless Alliance

NAAC

National Alliance of Arctic Countries

NADC

North Atlantic Defense Coalition

NDO

New Desert Order

NO

Novus Orbus

NoR

Nordreich

NPO

New Pacific Order

NpO

New Polar Order

OBR

The Order of the Black Rose

ODN

Orange Defense Network

ONOS

Organized Nations of Superiority

OPA

Orange Protection Alliance

OSF

Orange Shadow Force

RIA

Random Insanity Alliance

RSF

Red Star Federation

SKA

Serbian Knights Alliance

S-R-I

Socialistic Revolution Initiative

TCF

Tri-Color Federation

The Legion (no acronym)

TOP

The Order of the Paradox

TR

The Republic

TTK

The Templar Knights

USN

United Sovereign Nations

VE

Viridian Entente

WTF

World Task Force