Editing 术语 (section)

== Acronyms ==
Here are some of the common acronyms in the game and in discussions surrounding it:

;AAR
:After Action Report - A Player's recounting of their Stellaris game in the form of a Fan Fiction. For more detail, see the [[#AAR|AAR section]].
;AI
:Artificial Intelligence - The governance of the "computer players". The game AI controls all nations that are not being played by humans. This can also sometimes refer to sentient robots that an empire can build with the right technology.
;CB
:[[Warfare#Casus Belli and Wargoals|Casus Belli]] - Reason for war, also referred to as War Goal.
;CTD {{anchor|CTD}}
:Crash To Desktop - Frequently used in patch notes, occurs when the game crashes and instantly shuts down, returning the player to the desktop.
;DLC
:[[Downloadable content]] - For-sale content made available by Paradox that adds more game mechanics, music, and other features to the game. Compare/Contrast with Mod.
;DPS
:Damage Per Second - Characteristic of weapons, used to designate how much damage the weapon does on average per in-game day.
;DOW
:Declaration of War - Can be used as a transitive verb ("I shall DOW you, Tzynn!")
;EP
:Expansion Pack - Before digital downloads and DLC largely replaced physical discs, an "expansion pack" was the principal method of adding content to a PC video game after it came out. Expansion packs added enough content to be worth fitting onto a CD and selling at a store. Now, it refers to a DLC containing enough content to befit a classical Expansion Pack. It can also be used as a term in place of DLC.
;FE
:Fallen Empire - Millennia old, large and extremely powerful empires that have become old and stagnant over the ages. They will not expand or attack players unless certain conditions are met. Fallen Empires that have awoken- stop being stagnant and resume expansion and conquest at full vigor and power - are referred to as Awakened Empires (AE).
;FOW
:Fog of War - Prevents empires from seeing parts of the map they do not have sensor coverage for.
;FTL
:Faster Than Light - Faster Than Light travel across the galaxy. Refers to [[FTL]].
;GC
:Galactic Conquest - Taking over every single system in the galaxy, uniting the whole galaxy under one single empire; often used as the ultimate end goal for ambitious players.
;GM
:Game Master - Leader or organizer of a multiplayer game.
;MP
:Multiplayer.
;MTTH
:Mean Time To Happen - Metric used to measure how long, on average, it takes for an event to trigger.
;OE
:Overextension. Whenever an empire exceeds its [[Empire#Empire Sprawl|administrative capacity]], the resulting penalties are referred to as overextension penalties.
;OOS
:Out of Sync - Notorious desynchronization error that occurs in multiplayer, requires the game to be loaded again.
;OP
:Overpowered; In-game, this label can be applied to any item, empire build, strategy or tactic that is much stronger compared to all other equivalents with seemingly no balancing factor to counter its power. On the forums, it refers to the Original Poster of a thread.
;OPM
:One Planet Minor - An empire that controls only one inhabited planet (Habitats and Ringworlds also count as planets in this metric). From EU4 Term "One Province Minor".
;PC
:Personal Computer
;RNG
:Random Number Generator - Mathematical sub-system that generates a random number. Used to determine chances for events, battle results, and other game features that use randomization of results to any degree.
;WAD
:Works/working as designed - Means that the thing in question is wrongly considered a bug and is actually intentional.