== Glossary ==
=== Common Words ===
<u><b>Botting</b></u> - Term used for attacking large numbers of bots to gain experience.
<u><b>Break Dance</b></u> - The act ;Botting: Term used for attacking large numbers of boosting your engine while holding your breaks. Used when taking screenshotsbots to gain experience.
<u><b>Credits</b></u> - ;Break Dance: The basic unit act of currency in Vendetta Onlineboosting your engine while holding your breaks. Used when taking screenshots.
<u><b>Exploit</b></u> ;Credits: The purposeful use basic unit of a broken game element or bug, for gain. (forbidden)currency in Vendetta Online
<u><b>Fly Swatter</b></u> - ;Exploit: The weapon purposeful use of choice a broken game element or bug, for gain. (and necessityforbidden) when flying the frig.
<u><b>"HELP"</b></u> - (followed by 10 minutes ;Fly Swatter: The weapon of silence) An over-zealous pilot that got her/himself in trouble choice (and doesn't deserve someone to come to her/his aidnecessity) when flying the frig.
<u><b>Griefing<;"HELP": (followed by 10 minutes of silence) An over-zealous pilot that got her/b><himself in trouble and doesn't deserve someone to come to her/u> - his aid. ;Griefing: Griefing has multiple definitions. Here's the most common ones:
#Griefing is a tactic used by some people to "have fun" (not my kind of fun). When a person griefs you, they either repeatedly kill you until you decide to act differently, or they might not ever stop killing you. If someone (Subject A for now) attacks another person (Subject B) B might get mad and repeatedly kill subject A until A promises to never kill B again. Usually, this is just a waste of time, but sometimes people can get their point across. Not my idea of fun (like I said), but grievers aren't me.
#Griefing is also repeatedly killing a player who is unable to escape or defend themselves due to a lack of skill or ship configurations.
#Griefing is also repeatedly attacking non-hostile people. This particularly annoys most people, but griefers can get away with it because they normally have superior ships and weapons. This is another "DON'T DO IT."
<u><b>;Ice, yo!</b></u> ; or <u><b>;Iceyo</b></u> - : One of those shiny ice asteroids. With the old smaller, denser sectors people used to absent mindedly smash themselves on these things all the time. The ice asteroids gave more collision damage due to a quirk with their shape. Rabid Panda suggested to the devs that ships give a collision warning for ice roids, hence the term.
<u><b>;Idjut</b></u> - : Someone that HAS to bump your ship around while you are typing or lining up a screenshot or just chillin
<u><b>;Issue</b></u> - : To die in a collision, as with a roid, station, bot or other player, or to die with the /explode command.
<u><b>;j/m or jm</b></u> - : "Just a Minute" used when someone's in combat and cannot spare the time to write a coherent message.
<u><b>;Jump</b></u> - : The act of going from one sector to another through a jump point.
<u><b>;NPC</b></u> - : Non-Player Character. Otherwise known as "bots."
<u><b>;Poi Pond</b></u> - : A tightly grouped population of drones among roids.
<u><b>;Roid</b></u> - : A roid is the short name for an asteroid. Commonly found in... well, every sector, except empty ones. They will kill you if you run into them at high speeds. Roids will not explode if you shoot at them. They just sit there, acting as obstacles to the unobservant trader or fighter.
<u><b>;Roid Warping</b></u> - : Warping into a system and promptly smashing into an asteroid.
<u><b>;Sectors</b></u> - : Sectors are the squares on the 16 by 16 grid. You can freely fly about in each sector, except for the ones located around stars. We're not sure about those sectors yet, but we will figure out soon enough if we can use them eventually.
<u><b>;Space Quake</b></u> - : How VO is referred to at times due to its FPS style of movement and combat. Not all people agree with this description. (This name was much more accurate before the new navigation system came to be.)
<u><b>;Station Mining</b></u> - : Station mining doesn't involve looking for minerals in the station. Station mining takes place when someone drops mines near stations, killing other players. This is no longer a good idea because
#The defense bots will destroy the mines, and
#If someone gets hurt the defense bots will be hostile and you will be labeled KOS.
<u><b>;Spew</b></u> ; The cargo dropped by a destroyed ship.
<u><b>;Suicide Bots</b></u> - : Term for [[bots:Aerna Seeker|Aerna Seekers]] whose primary mode of attack is to self destruct near the target.
<u><b>;Systems</b></u> - : Systems are the named areas. There are 30 systems, each containing a 16 by 16 grid of sectors. The systems can be looked at by hitting default "n" or whatever is bound on your computer as nav.
<u><b>;Var Zoom (vz)</b></u> - : [[Binds|Variable Zoom]] bind.
<u><b>;Warp</b></u> - : The act of going from one System to another through a wormhole.
<u><b>;Widgets</b></u> - : The cargo available for sale in stations.
=== Common Abbreviations ===