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- BC (Beacon) The beacon fitted to all ships which can be enabled to enable your wing mates to drop on it.
- BC+: The rats now sees the clients beacon and is on their way to dropping into the clients instance for refueling.
- BC-: The rat doesn’t see the client beacon
- CR (Case Red / Code Red) An alert where the client has lost power to life support and the clock is counting down on their oxygen depletion timer
- DB (Debrief) When a rat has refueled the client, they do a debriefing with them, that is inform the client how to avoid running out of fuel in the future.
- DC (Disconnected) Abbreviation used in #FuelRats. Got kicked out of the game, either to Main Menu or out of the whole game
- EZ (Exclusion Zone) The area around a stellar body where your ship is automatically dropped to normal space to avoid crashing into the stellar body. A client in EZ prevents instancing with them through navlock and requires them to SC Hop away or a Tactical Face Plant (usually just on CR's).
- FR (Friend Request) The first step of a rescue, the client adds the rat ingame.
- FR+ or "FR received" reported when request from client is received and accepted.
- FR- Can be used to let dispatch know the request didn't get through, or client neglected to send it (after appropriate time has passed)
- FUEL / Refueling Report that tells dispatch that at least the first limpet fired has completed it's fuel transfer (giving you the onscreen confirmation of such) Reported either as "Fuel+" or "Refueling".
- INST (Instancing) The efforts to establish a Peer-to-Peer connection with a client. If attempts fail, “no instancing,” is specified and workarounds begin to be used in order to resolve the connection issue.
- INST+ Optionally reported on dropping on clients beacon and in instance with client
- INST- Reported if dropped on beacon, but not seeing clients ship
- J (Jumps) Called by Rats responding to a rescue call in order to determine who is closest to support (e.g. 2j, restock + 1j, etc.)
- MM (Main Menu) Often used like "client in mm" during CR rescues.
- OMW On My Way
- PW (Paperwork) When a rat has completed a rescue, they file/edit the case, called "paperwork" provided by the bot.
- Party Xbox voice communications which is separate with the game itself. Often reported as Party+
- PREP Can be reported to alert dispatch that clients shields are still up after getting in wing.
- PREP- client didn't comply with module-shutdown.
- PREP+ client has now complied with instructions after PREP- was reported.
- POS (Position) used on CR cases as "POS+" when reaches a given in-system position, for example 1000ls from a named station, to let dispatch know you are holding there ready for client to log in.
- RTB (Return to Base), associated either with a Rat standing down from a rescue case or needing to re-arm with limpets before returning to standby status.
- RGR (Roger) A rat will use this to show they acknowledge the information/request/command. Sometimes you may see COPY or ACK - same thing.
- SC HOP (Supercruise Hop) A technique used to resolve instancing the client powers up their thrusters and frameshift drive, enters supercruise for 5-10 seconds away from any stellar bodies while the rat(s) wait in SC to confirm positive instancing - or simply to get client away from EZ of a planet/star.
- STBY (Standby) A Rat is ready and available to be assigned to a case or to receive further information"please wait". Commonly used by both rats and dispatch.
- STDN (Stand down) A rat will use this to communicate they are no longer participating in a rescue. Dispatchers will also sometimes use this to tell other rats to stand down from a case.
- SYS (System) When a rat has arrived in the client’s system, a call of 'SYS+' may be made. Only used when client is not actually in-game and has beacon active, such as Code Red or long range rescues where the client is logged out to main menu. Otherwise, a 'bc+' automatically implies that the rat is in system.
- SYSCONF Can optionally be reported once a clients reported system has been verified correct on the Galmap (clients green friend icon shown being there)
- TFP (Tactical Face Plant) The technique of manually flying into the Exclusion Zone to achieve instancing with a client. Requires practice!
- WR / WG (Wing Request) The second step of a rescue, the client invites the Rat
- A response to a wing request may be “WR Received” or even more simply “WR+”, or if sufficient time has passed and the request hasn’t been received “WR-“
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