| Term
| Meaning
| Used in
| Description
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| AFK
| Away From Keyboard
| General gaming
| A status message showing that a player is not available. This can either be stated by the player prior to a temporary absence or applied by a game after a period with no player input.
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| AoE
| Area of Effect
| General gaming
| An effect that targets a general area instead of specific items or characters.
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| BPC
| Blueprint Copy
| EVE Online
| A copy of a BPO that has limited production runs but is otherwise identical to the copied BPO.
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| BPO
| Blueprint Original
| EVE Online
| An original blueprint, with no restrictions on use, used for manufacturing.
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| DoT
| Damage Over Time
| General gaming
| A harmful effect that deals damage over a period of time, not in a single burst.
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| DPS
| Damage per Second
| General gaming
| An amount of damage dealt or received averaged over an amount of time.
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| ECM
| Electronic Countermeasures
| EVE Online
| Electronic modules designed to jam radar signals, preventing a target from gaining lock on your ship.
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| FPS
| First-person Shooter
| General Gaming
| A game focussed on quick reflexive action, with the action presented to the player from a first-person perspective.
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| FPS
| Frames per Second
| General Gaming
| A measure of how quickly the display can be updated, limited by the complexity of the graphics and the graphical power of the computer.
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| GCD
| Global Cool-down
| World of Warcraft
| The period shared across most spells or abilities between using one and being able to use another.
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| HAC
| Heavy Assault Cruiser
| EVE Online
| A class of ship, used mostly for PvP. The official designation is ‘heavy assault ship’, but its cruiser hull gives it the popular abbreviation.
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| HIC
| Heavy Interdictor
| EVE Online
| A class of ship, used mostly for PvP.
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| HK
| Honourable Kill
| World of Warcraft
| A PvP kill that would have gained the character experience had the target instead been a PvE mob.
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| HoT
| Heal Over Time
| General gaming
| A beneficial effect that heals over a period of time, not in a single burst.
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| HUD
| Head-up Display
| General gaming
| An overlay of information presented in the user’s field-of-view, granting access to external data without the user needing to look away from the visual stimulus to read secondary displays.
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| ISK
| Interstellar Kredit
| EVE Online
| The currency of New Eden, EVE Online’s galaxy.
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| k-space
| Known Space
| EVE Online
| The known areas of New Eden, connected by stargates (cf. w-space).
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| LFG
| Looking for Group
| General gaming
| A way for a player to show he is looking to team up with other players. Games will often have a channel dedicated for this purpose.
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| ME
| Material Efficiency
| EVE Online
| Determines how much mineral wastage there is in a production run on a blueprint. The higher the ME is on a blueprint the less mineral wastage.
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| MMORPG
| Massively Multiplayer On-line Role-playing Game
| General Gaming
| A genre of game that has a player filling the rôle of a single character in a persistent on-line world populated by many other PCs.
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| NPC
| Non-player Character
| General gaming
| A character that forms and is controlled by general game mechanics. Contrast with PC.
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| PC
| Player Character
| General gaming
| A character controlled by a player. Contrast with NPC.
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| POS
| Player-owned Structure
| EVE Online
| A station or other structure built and operated by PCs instead of NPCs, commonly offering research and manufacturing capabilities.
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| PuG
| Pick-up Group
| General gaming
| A temporary group of several characters formed outside of guilds and friend lists, essentially a random collection of players brought together only by class synergies.
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| PvE
| Player versus Environment
| General gaming
| Combat between one or more players and NPCs. Contrast with PvP.
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| PvP
| Player versus Player
| General gaming
| Combat between characters of two or more players. Contrast with PvE.
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| RP
| Rôle Playing
| General gaming
| Taking on mannerisms and characteristics of your character in a game when interacting with others, rather than conversing or acting as yourself.
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| w-space
| Wormhole Space
| EVE Online
| Uncharted systems separate from New Eden, inter-connected by wormholes (cf. k-space).
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| XP
| Experience Points
| General gaming
| A measure of progression through character levels, XP can be gained through quests or killing mobs.
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