FA (Full Auto) | Empty clip into the target, also first aid skill |
FAAK | Fall/Falling/Fallen Asleep At Keyboard. Happens when you play AO too late at night without enough cuppas |
farming | doing something simple and repetitive with little risk to gain something, for example doing easy missions for tokens or killing friends over and over to get a PvP title |
FC | Funcom |
feline grace | an often asked for agent's buff that raises agility |
FFoK | Four Fists of Kali, a powerful MA damage buff |
FFS | for f**k sake |
FoL | the MA attack Flower of Life |
foreman's | the more common name for the Biomare dungeon in Longest Road |
FP | false profession, an agent nano that while running allows the agent to use nanos from other professions (example: "I'm going FP trader if anyone needs a wrangle") |
FPS | 1. frames per second, in a 3D game the more FPS the smoother tho motion appears |
FPS | 2. first person shooter, a type of 3D action game (examples: Doom, Quake, Unreal) |
FT | the Fair Trade store, there are many Fair Trades but this almost always refers to the one in the center of Tir, a place where clanners gather to look for teams |
GA | grid armor, a type of armor that fixers can summon and use which boosts their ability to evade attacks at a cost of greatly reduced armor class, grid armor comes in 4 types; GA1, GA2, GA3 and GA4 |
gank | attacking and killing a player far below one's level who has little or no chance of fighting back, although a legitimate tactic in mass combat, when done off the battlefield it is gererally regarded as a cowardly and dishonorable act |
GC | Galway County |
ggp | gotta go pee (example: "sorry team, I shouldn't have had that 6th Mountain Dew, ggp again") |
gimp | character that is weak ("I feel like a gimp! I can't kill anything" or "yo! you're such a gimp!" Generally not a nice thing to call others, so please don't) |
gj | good job, a nice thing to tell a team mate when they do well (example: "gj mezzing those adds") |
GM | almost Same as a ARK, but they get Paid. And actually work for FC. |
GOC | Globe of Clarity. Shoulder item dropped from Tara. |
GOF | Greater Omni Forest |
grats or gratz | short for congratulations, commonly used when someone dings or acheives a major milestone (like getting a Yalm or a rare item). |
greeter | a type of ARK who specializes in welcoming new players |
Grid | Is a place where all cities and lands meet. There is usually a access point to the "Grid" in Large cities. |
grid balls | PGCs are sometimes called this because of their icon's appearance of a cluster of interconnected balls |
Grid us: | Some professions (Docs, Traders, Fixers) have the ability to transport themselves and/or their team from their current location to the grid. Takes a min or two for a Trader or Doc, Fixers can do it instantly at the cost of most of their HP. |
GS | Galway Shire |
GS | Group Selector: Certain playfields (such as static dungeons, stores, etc) have a maximum number of players allowed in them at once. When that number is exceeded, a duplicate playfield is created to allow more people. These duplicate playfields are differentiated by group selector numbers. So if a bunch of your guildmates are heading for Smuggler's Den and you see them start saying "GS4 everyone", it means you should make sure you're in group selector 4. You can check what GS you're in by hitting shift-F9. |
GSF | GridSpace Freedom. Top end Fixer runspeed buff; sometimes applied to all Fixer runspeed buffs. |
GTC | Greater Tir County |
GTG | means either good to go (ready)or got to go which can be quite confusing sometimes (example: "Are we gtg? No, sorry, I've gtg") |