Glossary

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Glossary

AA - "Anti Air" - units which are good against aircraft. Also see Absolute Annihilation

Absolute Annihilation - balancing mod with lots of extra units, based on UH

assist-bulid - see "build assist"

balancing mod - changes the stats, abilities, or build menus of existing units, may add extra units

BB - Big Bertha, VLRPC. Powerfull and more accureate then core counterpart arm artillery cannon.

BSR - Brave Sir Robin - producer of UH

build-assist - speeding up unit/building construction with extra con units

C++ - a computer language. Spring is written in this language.

CVS - Concurrent Version System, allows the developers to work together it contains the Spring source code. "SVN" is another system for the same task.

comm - "commander", the unit you start the game with

comm bomb - self-Ding your comm in an enemy base to destroy it

con - "construction", e.g. "con air"/"air con" is a construction aircraft.

doxygen - source code documentation system used on spring. Generates documentation directly from code.

FAQ - answers to Frequently Asked Questions

LOS - Line Of Sight (of your units)

LRPC - Long range plasma cannon. (VLRPC very-).

mex (mexes)(mohomex) - Metal Extractor(s)

MiniSpring - mod with all the unit sizes scaled down by a factor of 2

mod - modification to the game which changes the units, see Mods

.NET - a software development platform used by Spring.

OTA - Original Total Annilation, refering to the unmodified TA units.

Phoenix Works - a game lobby and persistent campaign system supporting Spring XTA as well as several (mainly rebalancing) mods for original TA

Porcing - Playing defensively and not expanding (Small and Good Defense, like a Porcupine); term from a old CaveDog Strategy Article.

PW - see "Phoenix Works"

rebalance - see "balancing mod"

rush - early attack, see Rushing

self-D - "self destruct" - all units can do this (ctrl-D to activate/cancel)

SourceForge - the open source website used for the development of the source code

SVN - Subversion, used by the developers it contains the Spring programming code. considered superior to CVS.

SWTA - Star Wars total conversion mod

SYs - Swedish Yankspankers - the guys who started the whole Spring thing =)

TA - Total Annihilation, the name of the game

TAWD - Total Annihilation: World Domination, a quality World War 3 TC.

TC - see "total conversion"

UberHack - perhaps the most widely acclaimed balancing mod - produced by BSR

UH - see UberHack

total conversion - a mod which replaces the entire unit set

unit stats - the amount of armour, max speed etc. a unit has

UTASP - A truly massive unofficial unit pack expansion for TA

XTA - The SY's radical rebalance mod, the standard gametype for Spring.

See also

• Abbreviations entry in the tauniverse.com forum