Glossary
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[edit] Glossary
- AA
- "Anti Air" - units which are good against aircraft.
- Also see Absolute Annihilation. "Balancing mod" with lots of extra units, based on UH.
- assist-build
- see "build-assist"
- BA
- Balanced Annihilation. The most popular Spring mod.
- balancing mod
- changes the stats, abilities, or build menus of existing units, may add extra units
- BB
- "Big Bertha", which is a "VLRPC".
- BSR
- "Brave Sir Robin" - producer of UH
- build-assist
- speeding up unit/building construction with extra con units
- C++
- A computer language. Spring is written in this language.
- CA
- Complete Annihilation. Constantly in development Total Annihilation based mod experimenting with new graphics and gameplay ideas.
- CVS
- "Concurrent Version System", allows the developers to work together; it contains the Spring source code.
- "SVN" (Subversion) is another system for the same task.
- comm
- "commander", the unit you start the game with.
- comm bomb
- "self-D"ing your commander in an enemy base to destroy it.
- commnap
- Snatching an opponent's commander with a transport unit (usually an air transport such as an Atlas/Valkyrie), with the intent of selfdestructing it in the enemy's base.
- con
- "construction", e.g. "con air"/"air con" is a construction aircraft.
- DD
- "Doomsday Machine", Core T3 Laser tower.
- doxygen
- source code documentation system used on spring. Generates documentation directly from code.
- Drama
- Forum colloquialism for emotional infighting, especially when emotions begin to flare and people move from logical discussion to name calling and defensiveness. Comes from the stereotype that goths/emo-kids tend to over-dramatize their lot in life.
- FAQ
- Answers to "Frequently Asked Questions"
- LOS
- Line Of Sight (of your units)
- LRPC
- "Long Range Plasma Cannon.
- See also "VLRPC" (Very -""-)
- MA
- Maximum Annihilation - TA themed mod which evolved from BA and features lots of new units and some changes on the concept to make it more challenging and fun.
- mex (mexes)(mohomex)
- Metal Extractor(s)
- MiniSpring
- Mod with all the unit sizes scaled down by a factor of 2.
- .NET
- A software development platform used by Spring.
- NOTA
- Not Original Total Annihilation, referring to the a TA mod.
- OTA
- Original Total Annihilation, referring to the unmodified TA units.
- Phoenix Works
- A game lobby and persistent campaign system supporting Spring XTA as well as several (mainly rebalancing) mods for original TA.
- Porcing
- Playing defensively and not expanding (Small and Good Defense, like a Porcupine); term from an old CaveDog Strategy Article.
- PW
- See "Phoenix Works".
- Can also stand for "PeeWee"s
- rebalance
- See "balancing mod"
- rush
- Early attack, see Rushing
- self-D
- "self destruct" - All units can do this ([CTRL]+[D] to activate/cancel).
- SourceForge
- The open source website used for the development of the source code.
- SVN
- Subversion, used by the developers, it contains the Spring programming code. Considered superior to CVS.
- TA
- Total Annihilation, the name of the game.
- TC
- See "total conversion"
- TiA
- Tired Annihilation, a TA-based mod by Tired.
- total conversion
- A mod which replaces the entire unit set, and often every other aspect(graphics, sound, etc.) of a game.
- UF
- Unknown-Files, a site that hosts Spring content.
- unit stats
- The amount of armour, max speed, etc. that a unit has.
- VLRPC
- "Very Long Range Plasma Cannon"
- See also "LRPC"
- veh
- "vehicle"
- XTA
- Standard mod packaged with spring. Developed by a small community of enthusiasts. v9.44 is latest version.
[edit] See also
- "Abbreviations" entry in the tauniverse.com forum
