Acronyms (Civ4)

This page contains a list of acronyms and other jargon expressions that are used in the Civilization IV community.
;AH : Animal Husbandry
;AI : Artificial Intelligence, computer player
;AP : Apostolic Palace
;AW : Always War
;Barbs : Barbarians
;Beeline : Going directly towards a technology ignoring others
;BFC : Big Fat Cross (a city's workable tiles)
;BPT : per Turn
;BTS : Beyond the Sword
;BW : Bronze Working
;Civ : Civilization
;CE : Cottage Economy
;CFC : Civilization Fanatics' Center
;CoL : Code of Laws
;CPT : per Turn
;CS : Caste System or Civil Service
;DoW : Declaration of War
;DG : Democracy Game
;EE : Economy
;FE : Economy
;Flip : Cultural conversion
;FP : Forbidden Palace or Flood plain
;GA : Golden Age or Great Artist
;GE : Great Engineer
;GL : Great Leader or Great Library
;GLH : Great Lighthouse
;GG : Great General
;GM : Great Merchant
;GOTM : Game of the Month
;GOTW : Game of the Week
;gov : Government
;GPT : per Turn
;GP : Great Person/People
;GP Farm : City specialize to generate Great People.
;GPP : Great People Point
;GPpT : GPP per Turn
;GS : Great Scientist
;HBR : Horseback Riding 
;HOF : Hall of Fame
;HP : Hit Point(s)
;HR : Hereditary Rule
;HRE : Holy Roman Empire
;ICS : Infinite City Sprawl
;IW : Iron Working 
;Lux : Luxury resource
;MA : Modern Armor
;Mace, MDI : Medieval Infantry
;MGL : Military Great Leader
;MI : Mechanized Infantry
;Milking : The tedious art of score maximization
;MOW : Mounted Oscillating War/Man-o-War
;MP : Multiplayer/Military Police/Mass Production
;MPP : Mutual Protection Pact
;MTDG : Multi-Team Democracy Game
;NES : Never Ending Story
;NOW : Non-oscillating war
;NOT : No Optional Techs
;OB : Open Borders
;OCC : One City Challenge
;#CC : # City challenge, where # is a number
;OCP : Optimal City Placement
;pop : Population
;poprush : rushing a unit or building by whipping
;RCP : Ring City Placement
;Rep hit : Reputation hit
;RFC : Rhye's and Fall of Civilization
;REX : Rapid Early eXpansion
;RL : Real life (as opposed to Civ life)
;RNG : Random Number Generator
;ROP : Right of Passage
;ROP Rape : Using a Right of Passage agreement to sneak attack your enemy.
;SE : Specialist Economy
;SG : Succession Game
;SGL : Scientific Great Leader
;SHOF : Scenario Hall of Fame
;SOD : Stack of Doom
;SoL : Statue of Liberty
;SoZ : Statue of Zeus
;SPT : Shields per turn (archaic)
;SS : Spaceship
;SW : Small Wonder
;TE : Trade Economy
;ToE : Theory of Evolution (archaic)
;ToG : Theory of Gravity (archaic)
;UB : Unique Buildings, Civ-specific building
;UU : Unique Units, Civ-Specific Units
;Vanilla version : Refers to the plain version of the game, without expansion packs.
;VP : Victory Point(s)
;VPL : Victory Point Location
;WE : Wonder Economy
;Whipping : Rush build using city population
;WLtKD : We Love the King Day
;WoW : Wonder of the World
;WW : War Weariness
;ZOC : Zone of Control
== External links ==
* CivFanatics - Commonly Used Acronyms in the Civ Community (From Wayback Machine Archive)
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