Q&A: Vocabulary 101

[The Beatles]

Terms and Definitions

agrarian adj 1. strategy based mainly on production of food for cash, public sale, massing. Is not necessarily peaceful. 2. one using such strategy. See also, HPR.

BFR: n Battle for Redwall. The faster version of the game.

CoG: n Conquest of Generals. The slower version of the game.

emperor/empress: n The person who holds the #1 rank in game.

FAF: n Frost And Flame; the game

farm: 1. v to make many, light attacks aginst mid rank and/or land fat warbands to gain land. 2. n A building in various other Promisances equivalent to foragers in Warbands.

kill monger n One who kills many, especially those weaker, for the sake of accumulating kills. verb: to kill monger

land fat, landfat: adj Describing the ratio of networth to land especially if that ratio is greater than 1000 land to every million in networth.

land grab: v A short series of attacks intended to take land from a warband without causing much damage.

location hide: v To move to a Location with few players, in order to avoid attacks by people too lazy or unable to prepare hawks. Also takes advantage of industrial and rune bonuses and penalties of each location.

indy: 1. adj Short for industrial, any strategy that depends on using barracks as the primary source for troops.

2. n A person who plays this type of stragity

market spamming v The act of selling units in small lots as to slow any attempts to buy items off the public market. (NB: Due to market condensation in FAF, this is obsolete.)

mass: v to collect a certain type of unit and concentrate on it heavily

Mossflower: pr. n Default in-game location. +0% runes, +0% industry.

multi: n 1. A person with more than 1 account in game. 2.
A Warband/account operated by a person with more than one account in game. (NB: Multiple accounts are against the rules; thus, multis are cheaters.)

mySQL: pr.n. database software, used by Warbands

Noonvale or HPR: n 1. a strategy denoting non-aggressive, usually resource-concentrating playing modes. 2. a person playing this strategy 3 Insult against another for lack of agressiveness, intolerance to aggresion, inability to use military effectively.

newbie: One that is new to something, especially a novice at using computer technology or the Internet.

noob, n00b: n derogatory term. An obnoxious, arrogant, and self-confident version of the newbie.

Northlands: pr. n Location in-game. +15% industry. 0% runes.

PHP: pr.n. PHP: Hypertext Proscesser. A progamming language in which Warbands is written.

Promisance: pr.n An online, text based strategy game upon which Warbands is written.

Promi: pr.n shortened version of Promisance

Purgett, PC: pr.n Creator of Promisance.

QMT: pr.n Quietust, Morvandium, & Thrustaevis; major contributors to Promisance code

pwn: v slang for own. Ruling over the game.

ROC: pr.n Redwall Online Commuity. All websites related to Redwall.

Redwall: pr.n. A series of books written by Brian Jacques.

RWL: pr.n Redwall:Warlords. Another Redwall related Promisance,
chief competitor to Wabands.

stack: v synonym: mass

Southsward: pr. n Location in-game. +20% runes, -5% industry.

Please post with questions or definitions. If you are a mod, please add them to the above list, in the same format (in alphabetical order).

term: 1. part of speech definition definition definition 2. etc.

[EDIT: Added RWL, ROC, Redwall, Prominance, multi, Emperor, Farming, Land Fat, Land Grab, Market spamming, multi. -Nevadacow]
[EDIT: Added Promi and QMT -Urran Voh]
[EDIT: Added the NB for market spamming -Beatles]
[EDIT: Added indy -Nevadacow]
[EDIT: Capitalization of FAF, BFR and CoG -Ruddertail]
[EDIT: Order change to alphabet. Added stack, kill monger, agrarian, Mossflower, Northlands, Southsward. Added to HPR, location hide. Added template.]
[EDIT:Changed precentages, added spaces -Ruddertail]

[Ruddertail]

Er, yeah. It's been a while. This should be pinned, I think. Usefull reference for the new player. Also, should the topic name be changed to "FAF Dictionary"? It sounds more importent/helpfull.

[Zephyrus]

Someone check the +/- to each location.