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[Guide] Common Game Abbreviations and Phrases

Lucifer1904

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Disclaimer: These abbreviations and phrases in this guide were provided by the players who use them.

AGES


BA - Bronze Age
IA - Iron Age
EMA - Early Middle Ages
HMA - High Middle Ages
LMA - Late Middle Ages
CA - Colonial Age
INDY - Industrial Age
PE - Progressive Era
ME - Modern Era
PME - Post-Modern Era
CE - Contemporary Era
TE - Tomorrow Era
FE - Future Era
AF - Arctic Future
OF - Oceanic Future
AA- All Ages ( Area on the GvG map)
MILITARY

GE - Guild Expedition - a weekly player vs. computer game within the game
GVG/GvG - Guild vs. Guild - a separate map where players battle head to head for territory control
Hood - Neighbourhood, the people you are grouped with involuntarily who you can aid or plunder
PvP - Player vs. Player - attacking other players in your hood to plunder their city
Spears - spearfighters (First units received in the game)
Tower - The military competitions for each age from which you ca earn medals if you win more battle points than other players

EVENT BUILDINGS

Champ Retreat - champion retreat - winnable building producing champion units
FOY - fountain of youth - GE version of Wishing Well
SOA - shrine of awe - winnable building producing medals when motivated
SOI - shrine of inspiration - winnable building producing blueprints when motivated
SOK - shrine of knowledge - winnable building producing FP when motivated
WW - wishing well - winnable building with random production

GREAT BUILDINGS

AM - Atlantis Museum
AO - Arctic Orangery
CDM - Castel del Monte
CF - Chateau Frontenac
COA - Cathedral of Aachen
Colo - Colosseum
DC/Deal - Deal Castle
DT - Dynamic Tower
FOD - Frauenkirche of Dresden
HS - Hagia Sophia
Inno - Innovation Tower
LOA - Lighthouse of Alexandria
ND - Notre Dame
Obs - Observatory
RAH - Royal Albert Hall
RFP - Rain Forest Project
SBC - St. Basil's Cathedral
SMB - Saint Mark's Basilica
SV - Seed Vault
Traz - ALCATRAZ!
TOB - Tower of Babel
TOR - Temple of Relics
VV/V1 - Voyager V1
Zeus - Statue of Zeus

OTHER
Beta -the beta-test server where things are tried out before they hit the main servers
BP - Blueprints - used to build great buildings, obtained by aiding, or donating to ones that already exist
FP - Forge Points the MOST IMPORTANT currency in the game used for research and GB levelling
GB - Great Buildings - you must collect 9 BP to build these and pay a lot of goods, many bring amazing rewards.
MO/PO - Motivate and Polish
AAV- Anti Aircraft Vehicle a unit found in Contemporary Era
World - insert a letter in the blank or a short version of each of the servers (who can really remember East Nagatch anyway? Wolferandenstine?)



Lock - secure a spot on a GB
Snipe - overtake a player making a play to lock a GB reward, and lock the spot they were aiming to win
Age up - advance to the next age
RR - random reward
DD - double dip: collect, level your GB, then collect again
Crown - Guild power gained various ways.
DC - Daily Challenges.
 
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