DICTIONARY

CALLS

• A broadcast call is the

• A friendly call is the

• A threaten call is the

AMBUSH

• An attempted surprise attack from a hidden location

BONE BREAK (BB)

• When something hits your bone with enough force not only to damage it, but to break it in at least one place

BODY DENYING

• Dying in a way that prevents the hunter from eating from your body (drowning, falling off cliff, etc.)

BODY DOWN (BD)

• In a fight, hunt or contest, if a player dies, this is considered a body down and the fighting MUST stop and the party that lost a member has lost the engagement

CANNIBALISTIC

• Hunting and eating of one’s own species

CHALLENGE

• Hunting and eating of one’s own species

CARNIVORE

• A carnivore is an organism that eats mostly meat, or the flesh of animals. Sometimes carnivores are called predators

CARE-BEARING/MIX-PACKING

• Protecting/caring for another outside of your species

• Mix-packing includes protecting or hunting with a species other than your own

DISENGAGE

• Remove from an area of conflict

DIURNAL

• Active during the daytime

HERBIVORE

• An animal that feeds on plants

KILL FOR SPORT (KFS)

• A common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then they either cache or abandon the remainder

KILL ON SIGHT (KOS)

• To immediately kill anyone they see

LINE OF SIGHT (LOS)

• A straight line along which an observer has unobstructed vision (render distance if Line Of Sight cannot be broken by terrain)

MEATSHIELDING

• Retreating to the Personal Space of a creature with intent for the creature to aid you directly or indirectly

META GAMING

• Using outside text or voice chats while being different species to work together to find/kill a target is metagaming

• Grouping with others to kill them is metagaming

• Returning to the same location after with intent to kill your attacker

MESHING

• Meshing so that part of your hitbox is inaccessible or using your hitbox to hit through an object to reach someone

• Abusing hitboxes or collision meshes of objects or creatures that result in unintentional or unrealistic effects.

  • Examples include causing players to be trapped in animations unable to act, attacking someone through objects, abusing map meshes

NESTING

• Allows a dinosaur to create eggs, where players can be invited to be their hatchling

NOMADIC

• Roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or without a fixed pattern of movement

OMNIVORE

• An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin

PERSONAL SPACE

• The physical space surrounding a player considered an Argent length away

POINT OF INTEREST (POI)

• A specific named location within the map

PRE PLACED CORPSE (PPC)

• Pre Placed Corpse (not player body)

REVENGE KILLING

• Returning to a location to kill you or a groupmates’ killer is revenge killing

RULE BREAK (RB)

• To refuse to follow instructions, to go against the rules or the law

SCAVENGING

• Eating/taking chunks from a claimed body without challenging for it

SPAM CALLING

• Broadcasting in rapid session without reason

KILL ON SIGHT (KOS)

• To immediately kill anyone they see

STRIKING DISTANCE

• The distance an attack by a creature reaches while standing or pivoting in place

TERRITORY

• Claiming and defending a POI from potential threats

WHISPER

• A command that sends private messages to a specific player within Global chat. These messages can only be viewed by the sender and the recipient