EVE New Citizens Q&A

EVE Online Dictionary:

So, you're flying around in the asteroids in a shiny new Rifter when all of a sudden, Local Chat erupts in a sea of acronyms and abbreviations.'Supercap? CONCORDokken? Wardec? GTC? GCC? What's it all mean?!? HELP!!'

Fear not, brave capsuleer! I stand ready to assist! Here's a list of common abbreviations. It's not a complete list, but it'll help you 'talk the talk' of New Eden.

CONCORD: NPC military. Basically, the 'police' of EVE, responsible for security in high-security areas. See: CONCORDOKKEN.

CONCORDokken: Getting blown up by CONCORD. Almost always includes insane amounts of firepower. Named for an attack in the Street Fighter game series that worked in roughly the same manner.

Can-Flipping: Stealing from a jetcan or other player-owned container that has not been expressly 'marked' as public by its owner. Will activate a 15-minute aggression timer, during which the owner and his corporation may freely shoot you without CONCORD interference. SEE: GCC.

Can-Baiting: Intentionally leaving a jetcan in a 'starter' area with the purpose of attracting an inexperienced pilot and triggering an Aggression Timer on that player. can-Baiting has been explicitly forbidden by CCP, and may result in action being taken against the offender's account.

GCC: Global Criminal Countdown. Triggered by shooting a player that is not in an opposing militia or stealing from a jetcan. Occasionally appears in error when engaging NPC pirates.

Tech/Tier: Usually refers to the different classifications of ships and equipment. Tier 2 is more powerful (and costly) than Tier 1, and Tech 3 ships are usually top-of-the-line and extremely expensive.

Rat/Ratting: A 'rat' is an NPC pirate, and 'ratting' is the act of hunting them. Very rarely will you see rats outside of asteroid belts or missions.

Highsec/Lowsec: High Security/Low Security. Refers to the presence of CONCORD in a given system, with lower security systems having fewer CONCORD ships. Ranges from 1.0 ('highsec', major CONCORD presence) through 0.5 ('lowsec', limited CONCORD presence) to 0.0 ('nullsec', the lawless frontier). Rare and valuable minerals can be found in lowsec and nullsec.

Jetcan: A small storage module ejected from your ship. Can be used to store almost anything up to its maximum capacity; most often used for mining, but sometimes deployed as inexpensive advertising space. Stealing from someone elses's jetcan opens you to retaliation for fifteen minutes. SEE: CAN-BAITING.

DCU/Briefcase: Damage Control Unit. So called because the DCU's icon is a briefcase.

NRDS/NBSI: Respectively, Not Red Don't Shoot and Not Blue Shoot It. Used as rules of engagement in many corporations, a 'red' player is someone that has earned negative security standing, and 'Blue' is someone with high standing.

Popped: Having a ship destroyed. Can also apply to jetcans, which disappear with a small 'pop' animation when emptied. SEE ALSO: PODDED

Podded: Having a capsule (or 'pod') destroyed. This will result in the death of the pilot and the loss of skill points. Among most non-pirate players, intentionally destroying a pod is considered slightly dishonorable. SYN: POD-KILLED.

SiSi: EVE's test server, Singularity. Contrast with the 'live' server, Tranquility.

Wardec: Rarely seen outside of corporations, a 'wardec' is simply that another corporation has declared war on your own. Issuing a wardec revokes CONCORD protection for all pilots in both corporations. Wardeccing a new-player corporation is frowned upon by most older corps.

If your medical clone is up to date, you will not loose skillpoints, when you get podded!
(unless you fly a T3)

You completely messed up the definitions.

Tech and tier are two completely different things.

Tier is the classification of ships of the same class usually defined by the skill requirement to fly such ship.
So for example Slasher is Tech 1 Tier 2 frigate, while Rifter is a Tech 1 Tier 3 frigate, or Ferox is a Tech 1 Tier 1 battlecruiser, while the drake is Tech 1 Tier 2 BC.
There is no in-game marker used to differentiate the tiers, also there usually are no abbreviation for tier.

Tech in the other hand is the technology differentiation. It defines completely different ship class.
For example you have a slasher as Tech 1 (or T1) frigate, Tech 2 (T2) frigate based on the slasher are the two minmatar interceptors - Stiletto and Claw. They require a lot more skills than the slasher (frigate to 5, interceptors), they also gain extra abilities and a bit more damage resistance.

A tech 2 ship or module will have a small yellow (orange) triangle on the top left corner of it's icon with a small II in it.
Most of the T1 ships will have a T2 ship based on them (not including capitals, Tier 3 battleships and Tier 2 BC, and some industrials)

As far as Tech 3 (or T3) goes, there are only 4 cruisers that fall into this category: Loki, Proteus, Legion and Tengu.
They have subsystems that can change the ships functionality. They aren't based on any of lower tech ships.
You can identify them by a red (ish) triangle in the top left of their icon with a small III in it.

Edit:
Also a bit more complete list on the old forums.

"Red" can easily refer to players not on good political standing to one self, while and "Blue" is the opposite - i.e. players on good political standing (friends, allies). We were red to the inhabitants of Providence recently - it had nothing to do with security standing.

And no, podding has nothing to do with dishonesty when out in null.

Can-flipping:

The action of:
Stealing from someone's jet-can.
Putting the contents into a jet-can of your own.

At that point, the original owner may take it back. Which will result in the can-flipper being able to shoot the original owner, without Concord interfering (As the original owner stole it back, gaining an aggression timer.).

Commonly used against Miners (I'm sorry, was that your ore? here, have it back.) Or mission runners (was that your loot? oops)

getting pointed (a.k.a. scrammed) and webbed at a gate-camp is a sure-fire way to ruin your day.

Pointed (also, scrammed) -- someone using a Warp Disruptor or Warp Scrambler on your ship, so that you cannot warp away. You can counter this with the use of Warp Core Stabiliser (WCS) modules. However, WCS has a huge drawback to your own targeting, so said modules are generally only fitted when you need a "travel fit" (i.e. you're just trying to get somewhere safely, and won't necessarily have anything other than WCS fitted as you're not planning on engaging anyone).

Webbed -- someone is using a Stasis Webifier on your ship. this makes your ship slower, so that the other guy can better control the fight. Unlike a point, this module will not hamper your ability to warp off.

Gate-Camp --> pretty much exactly what it sounds like. one or more pilots sitting on an inter-system gate waiting for someone to jump through.