List of terms?

Nguyen · Post by **Nguyen** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:07 pm

Can anyone make a list of terms

I am having trouble understanding some things, I am new to RPG's and SRO.

banzaimonkey · Post by **banzaimonkey** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:21 pm

You can find generic MMO terms here.

Aside from that, there are a few that are SRO-specific:

SoS - Seal of Star / Seal of Sun
SoM - Seal of Moon
INT - Intellect
STR - Strength

Can't think of any others atm (bit too early).. If you have any others, post 'em in this thread. =)

Nguyen · Post by **Nguyen** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:36 pm

what is PvP?

banzaimonkey · Post by **banzaimonkey** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:52 pm

PvP is player vs. player.
PvE is player vs. environment.

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:35 pm

PvM is another term you'll hear used in place of PvE (Player vs. Environment). It stands for Player vs. Monster or Player vs. Mob. Mob itself, I have been told, stands for mobile object binary, a programming term for computer-controlled things what smack you.

AR = attack rating.
DPS = damage per second.
Caping = wearing a cape in order to engage in player vs. player with other cape-wearers. People do this because you can resurrect yourself for free and there are no penalties; it's just for fun.

Nguyen · Post by **Nguyen** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:15 pm

is that like a white flag?

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:49 pm

White flag, black suit, identification card - these are job items, or uniforms. They allow you to kill people wearing an enemy uniform, for instance, thieves and hunters can kill each other.

Capes are different; you put them on in the same way, but then depending on the cape you will be allowed to attack people who are wearing certain capes, and other people may be allowed to attack you. Some capes make you friendly with people who have the same color cape, but the prodigy cape allows you to attack anyone and be attacked by anyone (who has a cape on). More importantly, when you have a cape on and kill someone with a cape on, nobody loses experience and you get a free res. Jobs take experience and need someone to res you.

Nguyen · Post by **Nguyen** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:50 pm

I understand the Job of a trader also, but dont understand jobs of Theif nad Hunter.. Hunter just kills the theif?

banzaimonkey · Post by **banzaimonkey** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:56 pm

Nguyen wrote:I understand the Job of a trader also, but dont understand jobs of Theif nad Hunter.. Hunter just kills the theif?

Traders trade.
Thieves kill merchants and steal trade goods.
Hunters kill thieves.

Kard · Post by **Kard** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:12 pm

banzaimonkey wrote:Traders trade.
Thieves kill merchants and steal trade goods.
Hunters kill thieves.

Thieves kill hunters who are protecting the trader, hunters can kill thieves who want to rob the trader. Hunters can capture "Wanted" thieves. Traders can attempt to kill Thieves who are trying to rob them.

Are you confused yet?

Misaklo · Post by **Misaklo** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:13 pm

um... are all theives wanted and if not then how do they become wanted. i ask this because i want to become a hunter at lvl 20 because i don't want to spend the cash on a trader yet and thief is a higher lvl thing. plz correct me if i'm wrong on any of this.

Nguyen · Post by **Nguyen** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:21 pm

Misaklo wrote:um... are all theives wanted and if not then how do they become wanted. i ask this because i want to become a hunter at lvl 20 because i don't want to spend the cash on a trader yet and thief is a higher lvl thing. plz correct me if i'm wrong on any of this.

I would recommend not becoming something right at lvl 20 becuase you will die fast

OneManArmy1 · Post by **OneManArmy1** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:49 pm

Misaklo wrote:um... are all theives wanted and if not then how do they become wanted. i ask this because i want to become a hunter at lvl 20 because i don't want to spend the cash on a trader yet and thief is a higher lvl thing. plz correct me if i'm wrong on any of this.

If thieving is a higher level thing like you said how do you propose killing these higher level thieves with your lvl 20 hunter?

Nguyen · Post by **Nguyen** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:28 am

..lol Not sure.. I'm new to the game.

A questtion I got is, what is a "book"?

Stallowned · Post by **Stallowned** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:47 am

Nguyen wrote:..lol Not sure.. I'm new to the game.

A questtion I got is, what is a "book"?

A book is when you go to your skills list, and you see "fire river force series" or whatever, there are three squares called "books". The first book is the lowest level, and once you get that to level 9 you can use the second book, etc.

kagenutto · Post by **kagenutto** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:35 am

Sorry for nitpicking, but it's kind of a side issue I have. The word MOB is just short for mobile. That's it. The term came about during the days of old when people used to play MUDs. This stands for Multi-User Dungeon. It was the pre-cursor days to current MMOGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Game). Your typical MUD was ran off someone's home computer, which back in the day wasn't very fast and 99.99% of people were using dial-up. Usually SLOW dial-up. I'm talking 26K or even slower speeds. Not even 56K.

Back then MUDs were text adventure games. You typically connected to them through a Telnet or Gopher client, but there were some more specialized games that wrote their own interface for you to download. Later, that became a past time to write nicer interfaces for MUDs so you can setup hotkeys and macro's that a Telnet client would not allow.

Anyhow, games were written with C code and sometimes C++. I used to do some coding and had a mudserver running on my system. I was using a Diku derivative for a long time and then switched over to Circle 3. These names were prepackaged MUDs that anyone could download and then re-write and compile to their liking. They were generic versions and it was very nice back in the day to learn how to program by downloading a game like this and tinkering. It's how I learned before I went to college and got my BS CS degree.

Well, I'm digressing. The reason MOB came about was because to create a mud after you compiled the code was to use a "builder" interface. This allowed you to expand and add more to your MUD without having to always rewrite code and compile. You could add to your MUD on the fly and even "hire" people to expand your game even if they didn't know how to program code. All they needed to know was a few simple commands. One such command was "/oload <number>". Oload was short for object-load. You then used a number to load a specific object in the database of already created objects. You could also create objects. MUDs are built with 3 generic things. Rooms, which have a description and contain objects, Players, and Objects, which is everything else in the game. An Object has attributes and flags when created. Attributes are typically easy things to recognize like the name of an object. Such as a dresser-drawer, or the Sword of Doom, or A Raging Titan. Flags are what are used on an object to tell it how to behave. The MOBILE flag was just that, a flag that allows an object to move on it's own. You could then assign a script to the mobile object to move in a certain pattern or only around so many rooms or whatever. Typically, the monsters and NPCS (Non Player Characters) were only assigned the mobile flag. However, nothing was to stop a programmer/builder from assigning the mobile flag to lamppost and have that lampost wander around like anything else.

The term mob over the years became a catch-all term for monsters within a game. Why? Because sometimes what you fight within a game like this isn't exactly a monster. Also, NPC is typically assigned as a term to Mobs within the game that you do NOT attack such as shop vendors. However, if a NPC doesn't move about then technically it's not a mob. Nor is any monster that doesn't move.

Sorry for the history lesson. If you have any other specific questions on what something means exactly within these games or why it came about I can clue you in some. I've been doing this for a very long time for playing games online with lots of people. I'm talking decades here.

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:58 am

kagenutto wrote:It's how I learned before I went to college and got my BS CS degree.

You have a degree in CounterStrike? And you don't like it?

Nguyen · Post by **Nguyen** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:04 pm

Bakemaster wrote:
kagenutto wrote:It's how I learned before I went to college and got my BS CS degree.

You have a degree in CounterStrike? And you don't like it?

Roffle Counter Strike.. I used to play that non stop, but I think he is refering to Computer Science.

kagenutto · Post by **kagenutto** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:02 pm

Nguyen wrote:
Bakemaster wrote:
kagenutto wrote:It's how I learned before I went to college and got my BS CS degree.

You have a degree in CounterStrike? And you don't like it?

Roffle Counter Strike.. I used to play that non stop, but I think he is refering to Computer Science.

Bingo!

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:04 pm

[/joke]

FBIRem · Post by **FBIRem** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:07 pm

good rant there, man I used to LOVE MUDs. Good times... good times.

The Iconoclast · Post by **The Iconoclast** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:28 pm

What's "tanking"?

SuicideGrl · Post by **SuicideGrl** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:14 pm

The Iconoclast wrote:What's "tanking"?

wading right into the baddle with your foe and taking lots of hits because you have high HP and can do these things ;)

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:29 pm

In the manner of a large, heavily armored machine, such as a tank.