AO Dictionary

You will find here the most usual terms, abbreviations and acronyms used in the Atlantica Online [ac]MMORPG[/ac].

A

AFK

Away from keyboard

Alt

Alternate character. A character you play other than your main character.

AoE

Area of Effect. Describes spells or skills that hit the whole enemy formation (examples: [ao:skill]Meteor Strike[/ao], [ao:skill]Breakdown[/ao]).

AP

Action Power. The mercenary's acting ability. Each turn recovers 25-150 action power. Every action in a battle takes a certain amount of action power. A mercenary must have 100 or more action power for him or her to act.

ASAP

As Soon As Possible

Attack Power

The higher this value is, the higher physical damage will be.

B

B

Buying

BB

Bye-bye

BBL

Be back later

BBS

Be back soon

BP

Blessing Potion

BRB

Be right back

BRT

Be right there

Buff

Positive magical effect that increase the stats or abilities or a character (example: [ao:skill]Concentrate[/ao] is a good buff for melee characters)

C

D

DC

Disconnected

Debuff

A negative status effect (example: [ao:skill]Silence[/ao])

Def

Defense. Resistance ability against physical attacks.

Dex

Dexterity. Increases Long Range characters' Attack Power.

DMF

Double Monk Formation

DoT

Damage over Time. Describes spells or skills which do damage during several turns (example: [ao:skill]Deep Insight[/ao]).

E

Eva

Evasion. Dodge abilities, the higher it is, the more a character will avoid physical attack (magic skills always hit).

Exp

Experience points

ETA

Estimated time of arrival

F

FTW

For the win

FTL

For the loss (less common than FTW)

G

GG

Good game

GL

Good luck or guild leader, depending on the context

GP

Guild points

Gz

Congratulations (Congratz)

H

Hf

Have fun

HoT

Heal over Time. Describes spells or skills which heal during several turns (example: [ao:skill]Holy Guard[/ao]).

HP

Health Points. The life of your character or mercenary. When it falls to 0, the character dies (but can be resurrected outside of battle).

I

IDK

I Don't Know

IG

In Game

IGN

In Game Name

IIRC

If I Remember Correctly

IMHO

In My Humble Opinion

IMO

In My Opinion

Int

Intelligence. Increases Magic characters' Attack Power ; Mana Points and Magic Defense for all.

J

K

KJ

King's Judgment. This is when a level 100 guild leader of a guild that owns a town uses 125% will to attack someone outside the safe areas and initiate a PVP battle. They are limited to doing this only 10 times per day. The loser of this battle has the chance to lose an item equipped to their main or their mercs. Running away, logging off, or being dced all count as losses and may result in item loss.

kk

Okay, cool

L

LDP

Long Distance Party. Many players look for long distance parties so as to get experience bonus.

LOL

Laugh out loud

M

M.Def

Magical Defense. Resistance ability against magic skills.

Main

Your main character

Merc

Mercenary

Mob

A monster

MP

Mana Points. Mana is consumed by magic skills.

Mt

Mis-tell or mistype

N

Np

No problem

O

OMG

On My God

OMW

On My Way

P

PvE

Player versus Environment, most known as Player versus Enemy within Atlantica Online's US community. Read a complete description on Wikipedia.

PvP

Player versus Player. On Atlantica Online, PvP is not free and occurs only during Free League, Nation Wars and friendly fights. Read a complete description of this term on Wikipedia.

Q

R

Rez

Resurrect - bringing your mercs back to life either through a Life Potion outside of battle, the hospital in a town, or a scroll of resurrection inside of battle.

ROFL

Rolling on floor laughing.

S

S

Selling

SMF

Single Monk Formation

Snipe

Focus damage on a single target. Usually used with ranged mercenaries (bows).

Spike

Focus damage on a single target. Usually used with melee mercenaries (swords) on the opponent's front row.

Str

Strength. Increases Melee characters' Attack Power.

T

T

Teaching

TC

Training Center

TY

Thank you

U

V

Vit

Vitality. Increases Health Points.

W

WB

Welcome Back

WC

Wrong chat/channel

WTB

Want to buy

WTS

Want to sell

WTT

Want to trade

X

Y

YW

You're Welcome

Z

Sitemap

Important : this page will evolve a lot before the final release of AOP. Right now, its main goal is to briefly present the site features to new visitors.

AOP is an amateur site entirely devoted to the strategic MMORPG Atlantica Online (Ndoors Corporation). It offers general content for both beginners and expert players, with a goal of efficiency, quality and accessibility.

About : general info about AOP and Atlantica Online.

• Atlantica Online : a short presentation of the game, from a fan's point of view
• About AOP (Staff) : describes the creation of AOP, and lists its Staff
• Links : website directory about Atlantica Online, including famous networks as well as other fansites (but not illegal sites)

Game Information : a complete compilation of game data. Except the "Guides" section, you'll find almost no texts/explanations. The goal is to bring clear and raw information that is quickly usable. Regular players should love that.

• Characters : info and data, regarding both main characters and mercenaries : stats, experience table, skills...
• Items : a full database of items (1449), including stats for enchanted ones
• World : World Maps with details of Region, full and detailed directory of Fields (dungeons), and monster database continuously completed by contributors (see Staff)
• Guides : as opposed to the previous topics, its purpose is to give detailed explanations on various subjects : characters, mercenaries, craft... It's not a copy of the ingame help.

Game Tools : online tools designed for players; some features are only usable by registered users.

• Craft Calculator : will provide a tool to manage a player's crafting skills and calculate prices, experience, etc., of all crafts
• Character Simulator : useful tool to simulate any character/mercenary. Registered users can save/edit/share their creations, and build formations with them.
• Formation Builder : basically a nice picture generator. Registered users can save/edit/share their formation, using their own characters built on AOP.
• Fitting Room : will show gear sets worn by main characters

My Account : the most important section for registered users

• My profile : members can enter and change their (optional) info about Atlantica (crafting skill, main character, formation, etc), as well as their private, unviewable information (password, e-mail, etc.).
• My characters : the place where users manage their characters/mercenaries from the character simulator.
• My formations : the place where users manage their formation from the formation builder

Contributions : provide links to contribute to AOP. Users with special access as part of the staff have more options, such as a monster editor for entering data about monsters.

• Become an contributor : tells how people can help
• Write a Guide : users can submit their guide
• Write a News : users can submit their news

Community : this part will be updated much more in future developments.

• Players : show a list of players who have registered. Note : people who don't fill their profile don't appear here, so they can stay anonymous.
• Guilds : will show a listing of guilds that have registered
• Forums : AOP forums

How to post on AOP

Posting on the AOP fansite is basically as easy as posting on forums. You just need to register on our fansite or be logged in (see the block at the top-right of your screen).

Post a comment

You can post your own comment on specific news and guides.
To do that, just click on add new comment at the bottom of the article. You'll see a box to fill.
Subject is optional, if empty it will take by default the first words of your comment text.
Comment is the text of your comment. You can use classic BBCode and AO tags to format them.

Post on forums

Create a new topic

Enter the forum you want to post on (by clicking on its title), then click on the Post new Forum topic link at the top of the page. You can use classic BBCode and AO tags to format your message.

Answer an existing topic

Enter the topic you want to answer (by clicking on its title), then use the Post new comment box at the bottom. It works the same way as all comments within the site.

Write a guide

Any registered user can submit a guide. It has several advantages compared to forum posting (here or elsewhere):

• Your guide won't disappear in the deep pages that people don't read anymore
• Your guide will be well-formatted and corrected before publishing
• Your guide will be translated, and understandable by a large amount of players

To submit a guide, use the Write a guide link, you'll see an editing window.

• Title must be relevant, not lyrics or quotes
• Then choose one or more tags. As you write a guide, "Guide" has to be selected.
• Choose the language of your text, usually English
• Write the content itself in the big text area. You can use classic BBCode and AO tags to format your text.
• You can add files (i.e. illustrating pictures).
• Then submit it when it's ready!

What happens next ?
It's easy, the AOP team will read your guide, and may ask you a few questions/details about it (if necessary).
When everything is correct, we'll correct (language) mistakes, improve formatting, and add some illustrations ; at the end it will be published, and later translated.
By default, the guide will be credited to his/her author (your nickname on AOP), but you can ask to be anonymous.

AO tags

Based on a the same syntax as BBCode tags, AO tags allow you to create easy links leading to the whole site (or almost). This single sentence will show you how it can work within a text:

My [ao:character]Main Gun[/ao], helped by 2 [ao:mercenary]Swordman[/ao] mercenaries battled [ao:monster]Headless Soldier[/ao] in [ao:field]Yosun Temple[/ao], and got 10 [ao:item]Ashen Crystal[/ao]

and the result:

My [ao:character]Main Gun[/ao], helped by 2 [ao:mercenary]Swordman[/ao] mercenaries battled [ao:monster]Headless Soldier[/ao] in [ao:field]Yosun Temple[/ao], and got 10 [ao:item]Ashen Crystal[/ao]

Available AO tags are: character, field (ex: Yosun Temple), fields (ex: Ruins of the Yellow River), item, mercenary, monster, npc, skill and world (ex: Central Asia).
The text between the tags is not case sensitive, so both [ao:mercenary]Monk[/ao] and [ao:mercenary]monk[/ao] will work.

You can also link to any article (news, guide) putting its numerical ID : [ao:24]the text you want[/ao] will do : [ao:24]the text you want[/ao]. It automatically creates the right URL depending on the user's language.

Staff Handbook

This page describes some tools used by Staff members. If you're curious, you can ready it to see how we work ;)

Note: since 02/14/09, links to editors are available from the "Staff Panel".

Chat

The chat is basic but functional. It's "real time" and refreshes automatically every 30 seconds.
The only detail you have to know is that you can keep it in one of your browser's tabs (while you're working on AOP for example). If someone posts, you will see a star appearing before the Title, so * Tribune instead of Tribune. So you don't need to check the window. Click here to see an example.

Box Editor

This basic tool makes it possible to edit all available boxes, at least their content and their description.
After selecting a box, new content can be added from the list at the right. First specify both minimum and maximum quantities (put 0 if unkown, put the same number if the value is unique), then double-click the item name.
To update a box (for example: a new max quantity), add it again with the new values, it will overwrite the old data.

Craft Editor

Look at the Monster Editor below, it works the same way.

Monster Editor (v2)

This new version should save 20% of the time :

• Layout is designed to be very small in width (and the height is decreased too), so you can easily have both your browser and AO in windowed mode. Click here to see an example
• Item info runs through a very fast system :
  1. Select a ratio (by default very low). Change it only if the ratio change, it takes the Selected value
  2. Choose an item on the right list (type a letter to jump). Double-Click on it to add to the Monster's list (on the left)
  3. Double-Click also works on the left list, to remove an item
• Form is a lot lighter, so the page loads a lot faster, submitting loads faster too (it was really heavy and took a long time in the previous version).

One important thing : CLICK ON THE SUBMIT BUTTON TO VALIDATE, don't use [Enter] on your keyboard, or else the items will be ignored.
In the Location part, if you use the "Same as above" choice, it will take the same Region/Field value as the one above it (or if that one is "Same as above", it will take the one above that and so on).

If some magic skills, special features or items are not in the list, contact me (on the forum or elsewhere), I'll add them.
Please don't add incomplete monsters, add all Basic+Item+Location info. In the same way, don't add any event monster, as they are temporary and disappear once the event finished (that's also why item event are not available).

Quest Editor

This basic tool makes it possible to add quests from quest logs.
Explanations within the editor are quite clear, but the best way to start is to look at the first quests to see how it works.

Todo List

The Todo List is a simple but efficient tool to know what we have to do, and who is managing such task. It is highly recommended that Staff members look at it before doing something on AOP.

Anyone of you can add a task. For instance :

• You find a bug : add it with Urgent priority if you can't work until it's fixed, or just High/Normal if it is a minor layout problem
• You request a new feature : add it with Normal/Low priority (or wait if you see I already have many things to do ;)
• You wrote a guide in English : add a translation task for French, another one for Spanish

If you want to contribute to a task, click on its number (first column) to edit it, then check "I contribute to this task".
You can also leave a task : same process as above, but uncheck "I contribute to this task".
You can have several contributors on the same task (i.e. : Monster Database)

Translating/Editing Articles (news, guides...)

First, you can read this general help page about posting on AOP (in particular the Write a guide part).

To Edit or Translate an article, just enter it (by clicking its title on the front page or using the Articles overview, and you'll see two extra buttons at the top (just below the title) : Edit and Translate.

Now let's see the additional options that Contributors have:

• Input Format: ALWAYS select the BBCode + HTML one, or else html tags won't be interpreted.
• Revision Information: just ignore this part. But if you feel the need to use it, we'll talk about that.
• Translation settings: the description of this part is right, so check Flag translations as outdated if necessary.
• Authoring information: author and (modification) date can be changed here. It can be correct to change the date (just put the field blank) if important updates are done. The creation date will be automatically set by a server task every hours
• Publishing options: if you edit a text, don't change this parameter. I (admin) prefer doing it myself, at least for now.
  If the text is Published, it means it is available to everyone through its url. Else it's private and only staff members can view/edit it.
  If the text is Promoted to front page, it means the article will be visible on the front page. We always do it for news (and polls), almost never for other articles (guides, etc).
  If the text is Sticky at top of lists, it means the article will appear first in the front page. We only use it for very important news.
  Very important : if you translate a text, leave all fields blank except Published, that you check when the translation is over (not before). Indeed, the other options (front page etc) will follow automatically the English version.

Additional notes about translations:

• Ignore the content within the html codes, except if you're sure about what you're doing.
• Be sure the select the same tags as the original text (ex : select Guide+Character for the complete guide to main characters)
• Translate the title, it has to be different. Else we'll get duplicate content and it's not good at all :)

Tools: Craft Calculator documentation

[ac]AOP[/ac]'s Craft Calculator is a powerful tool which can help Atlantica Online's players in their crafting activities.
It proposes a lot of inline help, that you can see moving your mouse on the different fields. This documentation will show you in 5 steps how it works.

Before that, just memorize an important thing: within the Craft Calculator (like the whole AOP fansite), left side contains general and user-independant content ; right-side contains personalized info and user-dependant content.

1. How to choose a craft

The first time you open the Craft Calculator, it will show the Action: Auto-Craft [Beg] item. You have several ways to select another one, and navigating through crafts.

The left listing shows all available crafts by name. The number at the end of the game gives the skill level needed. You can go up/down using your mouse or your keyboard (arrow keys). Another useful shortcut is to type the first letter of the item you want (you must click in the listing before so as to select it). To load a new item from here, just Double-click or press your SpaceBar on it.

Just underneath, you have the History List and control. Try loading several items, each new one will be added in your history. You can navigate through your history using the dropdown or arrow icons. It works exactly as your web browser.
The small info icon will display a popup giving you info on the current item, including loot and enchanting tables (if available). To close the popup, click on the X at the bottom, or use your X key (doesn't work will all browser). Basically, it's a shortcut towards the Items section of the site, selecting the right item for you.

The right listing shows all available crafts sorted by skill/category, then the level required in this skill (the numbers you can see before the item names). You can go up/down using your mouse (no keyboard here), and load an item by clicking on it.
Names in red are items you cannot craft ; names in blue are items you can craft. This matches you own skill levels, that you enter in your settings (we'll see this aspect soon).

Just underneath, you have 2 filters available:
- the Hide unable checkbox will hide/show the items you cannot craft, so the names in red.
- the Show skill dropdown allow you to select a specific craft category (ie only swords or food).

These filters are cumulative, that means if you check Hide unable and select Spear in the dropdown, the list will only show the Spears you can craft.

2. How to put your settings

This part is only available to registered users, and is essential to use the best abilities of the Craft Calculator.
Just click on the Settings link at the top-right of the page. A pop-up will appear. To close it, click on the X at the bottom, or use your X key (doesn't work will all browser).
Now let's see what it proposes:

Set your skill levels

The table at the left allows you to set up your skill levels, plus the Auto-craft expression. Just copy your ingame data, skills appear in the same order as the game window.
They will be used by the craft calculator to determine which items you can craft (see above with name colors), but also the crafting cost calculation.

Indeed, in our Auto-Craft [Beg] example, this craft requires a [ao:item]Multi-Hued Crystal Shard[/ao]. This material can be crafted if you know Crystal level 1.
So if you don't put Crystal 1 in your skill levels, the Craft Calculator will consider you'll have to get it by yourself. As it isn't sold on the Market (with a fixed price), its cost will be 0 by default (and the cost will appear in red).
But if you specify in your settings that you know Crystal at level 1 or more, the Craft Calculator will consider you'll craft the [ao:item]Multi-Hued Crystal Shard[/ao] by yourself, whose cost (which now appears in green) is 119,600 gold using fixed prices.

Set your material costs

If we continue with this last example, especially the Multi-Hued Crystal Shard, you will see the calculator use the market price by default (red-colored prices).
Now let's imagine you get a lot of [ao:item]Ashen Crystal[/ao], and don't need to buy them. In your settings window, type 0 in the Price textfield, then find the Ashen Crystal in the right list (ordered by name), and double-click on it. You will see it added in the left list (your material prices), with its cost (0).

Think about reading the instructions in the settings page. For example, you can remove an item from your list by double-clicking on it (it can occur when your own stock is over). You can also change an existing price by adding the same item with a new price: the most recent will erase the old one.

Now save your changes by clicking on the submit button (DO NOT USE THE ENTER KEY OF YOUR KEYBOARD).
It will display you new settings, and the following message:

Your settings have been saved. If you were in the Craft Calculator, you should refresh its page.

So let's do it, using the F5 key or the Refresh button of your browser.

See the changes in the Craft Calculator

At the top-right area of the Craft Calculator page, you will see:

Your skill levels. Example:

Your crafting skills: *Auto-Craft* (2), Action (30), Cannon (34), Crystal (1), Fishing (10), Spear (51).

Your prices, within a table. Note: each price is, obviously, per unit. So in our example:

Ashen Crystal - 0

We can also see quickly that the Craft Cost for one Multi-Hued Crystal Shard decreased from 119,600 gold to 118,000 gold (we'll see later how the costs are calculated), as we don't have to buy the Ashen Crystal anymore.

3. Understand the vocabulary around Crafting

The Craft Calculator gives a lot of data, what can be disturbing for beginners. That's why we'll give a few explanations about the terms used.

Craft Information

• Workload: the necessary number to reach to achieve the craft. It automatically raises fighting monsters or using the auto-craft expression.
• Items per batch: number of items built by craft. Ingame you can stack identical crafts, but not divide them. So if one craft give 2 items, you can load 2 crafts (=4 items), 3 crafts (=6 items) and so on, but not 1 item or 3.
• Required skill

: each craft belongs to a specific category (ex: Sword items need... sword craft skill!) and requires a specific levels. In the Craft Calculator, levels are directly visible into the selection lists.

• Time needed (auto-craft lvl 1): time to perform this workload considering the crafter has Auto-craft at level 1. This way you can compare with your own time to see the difference.
• Experience (%): the first number is the experience given by this workload, the second one the percentage that it represents for the required skill level. For example, crafting a batch of Auto-craft [Beg] basically gives 1,000 xp. And it requires Action level 2. Experience required to go from level 2 to level 3 is 62 (see Experience table), so it represents 1,612% !
• Cost | XP_yield: the first number is the total crafting cost, considering a crafter who would have all skills at level 100 and buy the materials at the Market (fixed prices). So if you want to know the basic true cost of an item, it's here.
  The second number gives the yield-ratio between the cost and the experience earned, more precisely how many xp per 1,000 gold. Example: if a craft costs 4,000,000 gold and gives 6,000 xp, the ratio will be 1.5. So the higher this number is, the better it is!

Your Information

• Your Auto-Craft level:: the level you put in your settings, or 1 by default. You can change it here to see in real-time the impact on the time needed. Click on the button "Save" besides to save it in your settings (registered users only).
• Item quantity:: takes the Item per batch value by default. You can change it to see the cost per unit, the cost if you perform 4 batches, etc.
• Your Skill level

: the level you put in your settings related to the current craft, or 0 by default. You can change it here to see in real-time the impact on the Item quantity to level up, but it won't change anything else. Fill your settings is really the only way to get personalized info from the Craft Calculator. Click on the button "Save" besides to save this skill value in your settings (registered users only), the Calculator will display a confirmation message and will reload after the operation.

• Your Time: same as the left column, but regarding the auto-craft level your specified above.
• Item quantity to level up: number of items (NOT BATCH) you need to craft to reach the level you want (use the arrows to increase/decrease the objective), and from the skill level you specified above.
• Cost | XP_yield: same as the left column, but the values depends on your skill levels and your prices your specified in your settings. That means you'll really get the perfectly right cost if your fill your profile correctly. Priority order is 1)Price you specified 2)Crafting cost 3)Market fixed price.

Let's come back to our example to be clear.
A batch of Auto-craft [Beg] needs 5 [ao:item]Multi-Hued Crystal Shard[/ao].

• If you specified in your settings that one Multi-Hued Crystal Shard costs 50,000 gold (common price on your server for example). The Calculator will take it, and the total cost for the 5 will be 50,000
• If you didn't specify in your settings the Multi-Hued Crystal Shard's price, the Calculator will look for crafting possibilities. As this item is craftable, and requires Crystal level 1, the calculator will search in your settings.
  • If you haven't Crystal level 1, the Calculator will considerer you can't craft it, so will search the Market fixed price as a last chance. As it isn't sold at fixed price, the Calculator will display a cost of "0", and considerers you got it by yourself.
  • If you have Crystal level 1 (or more), the Calculator will considerer you'll craft it, and will look for the material costs. From now the process is the same: the calculator first searches for prices in your settings, then if the material is a craftable item itself, etc.

4. The Material tree

The Material tree represents what was explained before: a craft needs materials, some materials are themselves some craftable items, and the calculator shows the whole tree.
You can show/hide this tree by clicking on Toggle material details display link (top-right the your page).

As often, Left-side shows user-independant data, the full tree for an ideal crafter with all craft skills at level 100, who buys non-craftable items at the Market (fixed price) when available. On each line you have the material, which will popup an information (including loot table) window if you click on it ; the quantity needed for this craft (depending on the Item quantity you put ; the Unit cost (cost for one item), and the total (Unit cost * quantity needed). This way, you easyly see what is required.
The numbers just before the material names indicate the depth in the craft hierarchy.
The hammer icon shows cratable items, clicking on it will load it into the Craft Calculator (as if you selected it from the selection lists at the top). Using the history feature, you can quickly load an craftable material, then come back to the parent.

The Right-side does the same with your data, using your settings prices and skill levels. Names appear in red when you cannot craft them.
The small coin icon is a quick way to set up your own price to the related item. It will display a popup where you can specify a price (let it blank to delete personnalized price). After validation, the value will be stored in your settings and the Calculator will reload so as to recalculate the whole craft.

5. Tips, important things to remind

• Move your mouse through the page, many inline help/tooltips are available (code for colors, explanations, etc)
• Use your settings to set up your skill levels and material prices. Refresh the page when you want to recalculate all.
• Generic data on the left ; user data on the right
• Use the forum if you're lost, want to suggest improvements or give your feedback (it would be very nice).

And the most important: have fun on Atlantica Online! This tool is made to help you with crafting activities, hope it will contribute (very modestly) to get a more interesting economy, which is an important aspect of the game as questing, [ac]PvE[/ac], [ac]PvP[/ac], guilds, etc.