Llama in the context of Tribes/Legions signifies waiting around the enemy flag stand for a return and making a slow, routeless grab to get back home.  Good llama grabbers can be effective.  Bad llama grabbers frustrate the living hell out of teammates.

In Tibes/Legions, a Newblood doesn't know what a llama is. Basically what Rampancy said.

I'll be updating this tomorrow or on Monday. Cheers to Wiegraf, don't be offended if I edit the *chocolate cookie* out of any of your suggestions or neglect them entirely, i.e. I had a slightly more in depth explanation of skiing. Thanks anyway.

hehe... someone yidbon'ed me today, got heavily frustrated

No worries; go ahead Besides, if anything, they're good reminders for more details to be added at a later date too

Just did a quick update, few more terms. Looking for more.

Please feel free to comment if you disagree with anything, have a better definition or would like to contribute more information.

And can munge give me an in depth explanation about how skating/skiing works in Legions? Like stupidly in-depth, Samuel L Jackson English *motherdancer* in depth. I’m not going to put it in word for word, but a better understanding allows for a better explanation.

BUMP!

[CHOCOLATE COOKIES] - Edited form of the word "Sh1t.."  This term has seemed to replace the well known "Shazbot."

(alot of people ask me wth chocolate cookies means when i use it in game...)

Nuked - "Br16uy was nuked by ROUGE" - A death resulting from a near by player being blown up.  This can result from OD'ing to death, suicides, or a simple kill.

Turtling - To hide inside your teams base with the flag, making it nearly impossible for the enemy team to recover the flag.  Worse case scenario's from Tribes history is turret/mine farming inside your base.  In the legions world a turtler can best be described as the flag carrier being gaurded by many teamates.

Runner - When the flag carrier ski's/skate's all over the map to avoid losing their flag.  This person will rarely EVER fight and simply skate around in circles to avoid enemy players.

FRAPS - a video capture program which can record FPS games occuring on your screen.

Ventrilo or "Vent" - a communication tool used to talk directly to other players via microphone.

Ummm.... rabbit?


I'll Be adding TS and Vent now, however, I'll leave off Nuked until the implementation of the OD suicide is correct.

Very nice list, needs more linkage.

Lol thats a good one Rogue.


br16uy is right I'd call that a rabbit.

stop being an idiot.



When a flag carrier RUNS with the flag around the map avoiding defenders during standoffs the term is "RABBIT"

...you have way too much free time

Rabbit works just fine with its evading motif.  I don't think there's any reason to change it.

"Skating" (energy skating) in Legions is done by activating the energy cushion below the player (a spring force away from the ground surface) that allows them to glide. Skating can mean either coasting along the ground in that state or using your energy coils to push yourself across the ground while your energy cushion is active. When your energy suit is active, the boots automatically fire on when you're close enough to the ground. That means that from a player's perspective, skating is moving along the ground while your energy suit is activated (RMB by default).

"Skiing", as it's used in Legions, describes the act of using the energy cushion system along with the directional thrust of the energy coils (forward, back, left, right, up, or down) to skillfully take advantage of the slopes in the terrain and ramps on structures to fluidly move through the world while gaining speed. This involves converting your momentum in one direction to momentum in another direction using objects in the world. Downward momentum from falling or jetting can be efficiently converted into lateral momentum by landing on a steep slope that banks in the direction you wish to go. Lateral momentum can then be converted back into vertical momentum by using energy to launch off of an upward slope. Skiing also involves a bit of energy management and timing.

"Ski" normally implies speed and grace. A player could be in the air or on the ground while they are skiing. "Skate" is just a description of the mode of movement and has no implication as to speed. A skating player could be going extremely fast or extremely slow, but they are most definitely coasting along the ground.

A rabbit is anyone who just skis/skates/jets around as fast as they can, normally with no particular route in mind, though it's normally used in Legions to describe people in CTF who grab the flag and then take off around the map to avoid being killed in the hopes that their flag will be returned and they will be able to capture. It's generally a bad tactic in public games (at least on smaller maps) because unless your team is organized you're not likely to be able to get back to your base to cap before someone from the enemy team can make a speed grab. That's why it leads to frustrating stalemates and a rabbit is generally seen as coward and/or a bad sport.

Grabber, capper, and runner (for "flag runner", like "rum runner") are synonymous - someone who grabs the enemy flag (from the enemy base or via a planned pass from another capper) and tries to bring it home for a capture. Runner does not imply rabbiting or running away, it only means you're trying to "run" the flag from the enemy base to yours.

It's a tactical position, not a behavior (e.g. defender, chaser, escort, runner, etc). For example, someone who was escorting their flag runner back to their base and then picked up and subsequently captured the enemy flag after an unfortunate drop is still not a flag runner, though they're probably a good escort (assuming they weren't the one to kill the runner).

The correct term for the person who is currently holding the flag is "flag carrier" and it has no implications as to position. For example, a defender could at some point become the flag carrier (via pass or drop), but unless they leave their post at the base they are still playing defense.

guess that makes me a coward and bad sport, since lately i been using sniper spec to grab and then snipe the enimy snipers/chasers as i wait for my team to get flag back, if somebody comes after me, I run and loose them.

Sorry Munge, but the "leet" of the community feel your a total noob who dosnt understand the game if you dont call them the capper PERIOD, I have been Schools on it, by countering what the "leet" players like Dworgi and phanakapan, if they and their buddys say its true it must be, dissagreeing will just lead to them feeling your a "noob" and "moron", I have leared this, so Legions has no runners,grabbers,or whatever terms you and others use in other games

sorry Munge, but they have told me this enought times that it must be true, like the need for perm flag Indicators and need for bland maps with NO obstickles and great 200+ routs down the middle.

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