Netropolis Players Guide - Language

Alliance - A group of players coming together and hopefully becoming organised in the way they play.
Actions - This is what you do in Netro. Almost anything you do counts as an action. e.g. bombing, taking over, changing stock etc.
Bb - Burger Bar.
Camera - Security Camera - generally accepted as the worst security known to netro.
Cap/ Caital - The place you'll go to after a city. You can only enter a capital after you have heroed a city.
Cherried/cherries - Other names for the conventional cherry bomb. Most frequently used by the lower HQ-level companies.
City - The place you'll go to after a town. You can only enter a city after you have heroed a town.
Club - Night Club.
Comp(s) - This actually means Company or companies as in what you use to play the game with e.g. "I'll move a comp there to grab the land".
CTO - Corporate Takeover (often just called a takeover). This is where you click on someones building and press the Takeover button.
Cyber - Cyber Cafe.
Db/ D-bomb - This is the Destruction bomb which is available to you once you are at level 3. One of the most common bombs used - and if it gets used on lots of your props (see below) you wont want to waste time typing "destruction"! You will hear people talking about being db'd or d - bombed.
Dogs or Doggies - Short for Guard Dogs - a type of security.
Ele HSS - Short for Electronics HSS (see below). e.g. "Change that prop for an ele hss or else".
Fash HSS - Same as above, but in this case it's a Fashion HSS.
Feeders - Companies that you have a lower level, on land, in order to transfer money to a higher level company.
Fires - Tends to be used to mean Fire Bomb. e.g. "Some idiot has been chucking fires all over the map".
Fire Spread - Where a building catches fire from another building. Can cause whole maps to go up in flames.
Fire Strike/Fireworks - The fireservice is less effective and fire spreads considerably faster.
Force Hero - Basically when the owner of a company has had a particular company hero a location because someone else has made them go over the cash criteria by sending that company cash or by cto-ing their props. Tends to make the owner of the company very annoyed - especially if they had a lot of land in the company.
Free Land - Land which hasn't been built on. Usually green if you are zoomed in. Black if zoomed out. e.g. "Help me grab the free land asap!".
Guards - Security Guards - another form of security.
Heights - The top location in Netro. Only accessible once you have heroed a cap.
Hero - This is when you effectivly 'win' in a location ie you reach the set criteria for that level (view the guide to hero levels).
HQ - Head Quaters.
HSS - High Street Stores - Electronics, Fashion and Food.
HTC - Short for Hi-tech centre, costs a lot and is a pain to type that's why HTC is used.
Level Up - The rapid increasing of your HQ level, so as to get better buildings and bombs.
License - This is a general term used for all buildings for which there are a limited number available, e.g. cinema, hotel etc. Only available in cities and above.
Manni - Appreviation for Mannifesto. The section in your HQ Profile where you can write a short bit.
Manor - Manor Restaurant.
MSCP - Multi storey Carpark - only available in cities and higher.
Multi - This can be used in two ways. Multiple Companies or Multiple Transfers.
Mushie/Mushroom - A building which has been destroyed with a destruction bomb.
Netro - The game we all love and hate - Netropolis. Far too long to type though.
Newbie/ newb- A very widely used term, with a variety of meanings. In general however, it means someone who has either played for less time than you, or someone that you consider to be worse at netro than you. e.g. "You can easily beat him - he's a newbie".
One Town Wonder - Name often given to players that have heroed one town, and enter a city and try and bomb their way in. Often used in conversation between city land holders, e.g: "Just having a little trubble with a persistant One Town Wonder"
Plot - This is where you build your buildings. e.g. "Grab 10 plots and then build on them after".
Pool - Swimming pools.
Prop(s) - Properties, what the game is based around you can't do much without them.
RL - Abbreviation for the Rich List, a list showing the top 100 companies in the game.
Script(s) - A program developed which does things for you e.g. bombs for you. SCRIPTS ARE NOT ALLOWED.
Shadow Bombing/ shadowing - If you shadow bomb someone then you are bombing them with a company that cannot be identfied to you. As a result they have no idea who to bomb back. Tends to get people quite annoyed. e.g. "some idiot is shadowing me".
Stalls - Market stalls - if you build these then your just cheap :-)
Stands - Not very common but is said meaning hotdog stands.
Strike Day - This is when the police go on strike in that location and you cannot be caught by the police. You can however still be caught if the property has security guards on it.
Takeover - See CTO above.
"Take them to 10%" - Phrase used in relation to bombing all of a companies buildings to 10% condition, so that they end up in huge -ve profit, and lose lots of money.
Tax - Fully described in the guide to tax.
tfers or xfers - The transfers each company is allowed. You will normally hear people talking about running out of tfers as asking people to tfer cash to them, this means the transfer of cash from one company to another.
Town - The first place you go to in Netro. A good training point for everything that will follow.
TW - Total worth. Either how much a company is worth in a location - which is cash and buildings together - or the added value of all a players companies.
U/P - Username/Password. A friend may ask for you u/p in order to help bomb a common enemy.
Wiped or wipe - Usually a word at the end of a sentance which sounds like this '**** i've been wiped' In this case it means that this player has had everything they own bombed from them.

Many thanks to Bri - UK Mafia for the original idea for this, and for many of the definitions above.