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AIM Recruit Pocket Glossary

Glossary of Jagged Alliance related terms and abbreviations you might want to know when participating in forum discussions

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  • 100 AP System A new version of the "Action Point" system that replaced the old 25AP's.
  • Alpha Item Mod (AIM) A weapon/item mod by Smeagol for WF6.06, includes a lot of merge-able items.
  • AR Short for assault rifle
  • Assertion Error A game crash (intentionally from the code point of view) to avoid bad data in memory from crashing the game even worse. This gives the program a chance to tell you what the problem is and make an auto-save.
  • BR Short for Bobby Ray's, the in game on-line Web site where you order gear for your soldiers.
  • BTW By the way
  • Build A game executable made from a specific version of the source code, for example the executable build 1210 is made from source code revision 3350.
  • Coder People who spend way too much of their free time trying to change the way the game works by altering the source code.
  • Commit or Commit Changes Putting a change, modification, fix or new feature into the main code of the software reversion control system so that everyone can use it
  • CTD Crash to desktop, when the game exits unexpectedly without any error message.
  • CTH Chance to Hit, the in game likelihood of a solder to hit a certain target / location.
  • DBB also called Cosplay A weapons/item mod which adds a lot of new stuff to the game.
  • DCA Drassen Counter Attack (A feature turned off in Vanilla, Deidranna seeks revenge with an iron fist!)
  • Debug EXE A special version of a game executable (slower and larger) designed to help spot problems during (alpha or beta) testing so that the coder can fix them.
  • DL Deidranna Lives Mod
  • EDB Enhanced description box (Created by Headrock, it offers a lot more detail on weapons and items in game, now part of the main SVN download.)
  • Flame Intentionally insulting someone to create a negative reaction.
  • GL Short for grenade launcher
  • Gold This usually refers to the JA2 Gold edition, which contains all patches up to 1.12. Gold and Vanilla are often used interchangeably, however for Vanilla games the actual patch version can be important.
  • HAM Headrock's assorted mods, a collection of changes that deals with suppression tactics and a whole range of other optional adjustments.
  • IIRC If I recall correctly
  • INI Editor A tool that comes with 1.13 which can be used to alter most aspects of gameplay, from how often it rains to the amount of cash you start with.
  • IRL In real life
  • JA2 1.13 The backbone for countless mods, a version of the game made by JA fans for JA fans. It contains very customizable game editors and many improvements.
  • L2 Legion 2 Mod
  • LBE Load bearing equipment (Used in conjunction with NIV)
  • Merge When a stand alone portion of the code gets integrated into another version to combine different features into the same game executable, this is required for players to be able to access features made by different programmers.
  • MFM Militia Factions Mod
  • Modder Anyone who changes the game. Often refers specifically to people who add new content, like guns, maps, or whole new campaigns.
  • NGAP New Gun Attachment Points, a planned system to allow more or different attachments for guns
  • NIV New inventory which employs the use of LBE to store and carry equipment.
  • NOPS Night Operations Mod
  • OIV Old inventory (Classic JA inventory)
  • OP Original Poster
  • OT Off Topic (Point)
  • PCM Playable character mod (Created by The Scorpion, this allows you to play with several previously unusable characters.)
  • Possum DBB A modified version of DBB where Old Possum added some stuff he liked and changed some items, does not contain maps.
  • Proedit A tool that comes with 1.13 to edit the PROF.DAT, this allows you to change the majority of character features of the soldiers and people you meet in the game.
  • PROF.DAT The file that contains all the info about Mercs/NPC's, for use with 1.13 please look up a thread as you need to change the name of the PROF.DAT to suit the difficulty level you are using.
  • RR Renegade Republic Mod
  • SCI Single Click Installers, a packaged version for a mod which makes installation much easier, meaning less / no manual copying / editing of files is required.
  • SMP Stable Modding Platform, a planned project to build a complete new code base for JA2 for modders
  • Sog'69 A UB mod for Vietnam Sog'69
  • Source Code The C++ (and some Assembler) code the JA2 game is made from. It's way too large for its own good, and is always giving coders trouble.
  • Spam posting for the sake of it, off topic posts, double posting.
  • SVN Technically means subversion, in the context of a software reversion control system, such as Tortoise, which is what we use for JA2 v1.13.
  • Troll or Trolling Intentionally starting a topic/debate to create a conflict.
  • UB Unfinished Business, an expansion of the Vanilla JA2 game.
  • UC Urban Chaos Mod
  • Vanilla Original unmodified version of JA
  • Warez Illegal software that has been stripped of its copy-protection and made available on the Internet for downloading. This is not permitted and we will delete articles and ban posters for this.
  • WF6.06 Wildfire and 1.13 Hybrid
  • XML Editor A tool that comes with 1.13 that allows you to alter items/enemy gun choices and much more.