CIV ACRONYMS: List of Commonly Used Acronyms in the Civ Community
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AI - Artificial Intelligence, computer player
AW - Always War
Barbs - Barbarians
Beeline - Going directly towards a technology ignoring others
Civ - Civilization
CPT - Culture per turn
DG - Democracy Game / Demi-God level
Flip - Cultural conversion
FP - Forbidden Palace / Flood plain
GA - Golden Age
GL - Great Leader OR Great Library
GOTM - Game of the Month
gov - Government
GPT - Gold per Turn
HOF - Hall of Fame
HP - Hit Point
ICS - Infinite City Sprawl
Lux - Luxury resource
MA - Modern Armor
Mace, MDI - Medieval Infantry
MGL - Military Great Leader
MI - Mechanized Infantry
Milking - The tedious art of score maximization 
MOW - Mounted Oscillating War/Man-o-War
MP - Multiplayer/Military Police/Mass Production
MPP - Mutual Protection Pact
NES - Never Ending Story
NOW - Non-oscillating war
NOT - No Optional Techs
OCC - One City Challenge
*CC = * City challenge, where * is a number
OCP - Optimal City Placement
pop - Population
poprush - rushing a project by killing citizens
Rambo - Guerilla
Rep hit = Reputation hit
RCP - Ring City Placement
REX - Rapid Early eXpansion
RL = Real life (as opposed to Civ life )
RNG - Random Number Generator
ROP - Right of Passage
ROP Rape - Using a Right of Passage agreement to sneak attack your enemy.
SG - Succession Game
SGL - Scientific Great Leader
SHOF - Scenario Hall of Fame
SOD - Stack of Doom
SoZ = Statue of Zeus
SPT - Shields per turn
SS - Space Ship
SW - Small Wonder
ToE - Theory of Evolution
ToG - Theory of Gravity
UU - Unique Units, Civ-Specific Units
Vanilla version - This refers to the plain version of the game, w/o expansion packs. 
VP - Victory Point
VPL - Victory Point Location
Whipping - Rush build using city population (under despotism and communism in Civ3)
WLTKD - We love the king day
WYSIWYG - What You See IS What You Get
WoW - Wonder of the World
WW - War Weariness
ZOC - Zone of Control

*** Game Title Abbreviations ***
PTW - Civ3: Play the World expansion pack (the first Civ3 expansion)
C3C - Civ3: Conquests expansion pack (the second Civ3 expansion, also includes all of PTW)
CIC - Civ2 Conflicts in Civilziation expansion
FW - Civ2 Fantastic Worlds expansion
MGE - Civ2 Multiplayer Gold Edition
UCC - Ultimate Classic Collection, European version of Civ2 MGE
CTP - Activision's Call to Power
SMAC - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
MOO - Master of Orion
RON - Rise of Nations
TOT - Civ2 Test of Time
SMAC - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
SMAX - Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire

*** ISDG Jargon ***
CFC - Civilization Fantics Center
CDZ - Civilization Dual Zone
CGN - Civilization Gaming Network
C3B - Civ3Brasil
PAL - People's Army of the Lader
GWT - German Webring Team
APO/'poly= Apolyton
CDG - Creative Design Group
GCA - Gamecatcher Alliance
CoIA - Counsel of Internal Affairs
CoMA - Counsel of Military Affairs
CoFA - Counsel of Foreign Affairs
JotC - Justice of the Court
MSDG - Multi-Site Democracy Game (Generally used to descibe the PTW one)
ISDG - Intersite Democracy Game (Generally used to describe the C3C one)
ISDG II= C3C ISDG

*** General Internet Acronyms ***
AFAIC - As far as I'm concerned
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AFK - Away From Keyboard
AKA - Also Known As
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
BBL - Be Back Later
BRB - Be Right Back
BTW - By The Way
CP - Computer Player
E3 - Electronic Entertainment Expo
FAQ - Frequently Asked Question
IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
IMHO, IMO - In My (Humble) Opinion
J/K - Just Kidding
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
NG - Newsgroup
OTOH - On The Other Hand
PBEM - Play By E-Mail (form of multiplayer gaming)
POV - Point Of View
RTFM - Read The [Flamin'] Manual!
ROTFL - Rolling On the Floor Laughing
LMAO - Laughing My Arse Off
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
TTFN - Ta ta For Now
TTYL - Talk To You Later

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Last updated on June 10th, 2005, by Thunderfall
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