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Outwitters Forum-Everything You Need To Know
02-04-2013, 03:08 AM (This post was last modified: 03-13-2013 10:05 PM by Coolio.)
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Outwitters Forum-Everything You Need To Know
Here are some handy tips for those new (and maybe old) to the Outwitters Forums.

Vocab:
P1- Player 1
P2- Player 2
A- Adorables
F- Feedback
S- Scallywags
V- Veggienauts
HP- Hit Points / Health of a Unit
BS- Bombshell (Scallywags' Special Unit)
GC- Game Center
ST- Super Titan
Tourney- Tournament
OP- Over Powered / Original Poster (Thread Creator)
UP- Under Powered
FTA- First Turn Advantage
LOS- Line of Sight
AoE- Area of Effect (usually referred to with the bombshell)
FoW- Fog of War
OSN- Outwitters Sports Network (see below)
GOL- Global Outwitters League (see below)
OML- One Man Left
Nerf- Making something weaker
Buff - Making something stronger
Boost- Healing a unit, usually referred as to get the +1 health
Turtling- Turtling is a gameplay strategy that emphasizes heavy defense. Turtling minimizes risk to the turtling player while baiting opponents to take risks in trying to overcome the defenses.
TTL- Tilt to Live, the other game produced by Alex and Adam (see below)
Alex and Adam- the developers of this game
"Forum Bug"- A bug that causes posts on a new page to disappear. This can be countered by changing your posts per page in your user cp or by hitting new reply to see the posts. People often say "bump" to make the posts appear.
What to Check Out:
Global Outwitters League The Global Outwitters League (GOL) is a high-level tournament-based league hosted by CombatEX and Gfich. The purpose of this tournament is to recognize the top players in Outwitters while simultaneously allowing players of all levels a chance to face the best.
Outwitters Top 200 Ranking Trends A handy document created and managed by Great Gonzales to see how all the top 200 players are doing, who's falling, and who's rising.
Outwitters Sports Network
A great website created by CodePenguin to keep track of your own stats, your opponents stats, and watch the hottest replays.
Outwitters Map Creator Make your custom maps here! Thanks to Harti!, Outwitters fans can make their own maps and look at others custom maps using this website.
Outwitters Clan List A list of all the clans, their members, and ther statuses created by TheQwertiest.
Outwitters 20 Questions 20 questions with things related to Outwitters! This is a forum game that you can look at when you're bored. Thanks to Gfich for this cool idea.
Tournament Thread A thread to look at and join Outwitters Tornaments hosted by Outwitters fans.
Weekly Top 200 Players
Alex and Adam will post the Top 200 players of each week on the Outwitters forum. Be sure not to miss it.
Map Abbreviations:
SFI- Sharkfood Island (Scallywags Map)
L9- Long Nine (Scallywags Map)
SKD- Skull Duggery (Scallywags 2nd Generation Map)
GLI- Glitch (Feedback Map)
FND- Foundry (Feedback Map)
SP- Sweetie Plains (Adorables Map)
PEE- Peekaboo (Adorables Map)
ST- Sweet Tooth (Adorables 2nd Generation Map)
REA- Reaper (Veggienauts Map)
TG- Thorn Gulley (Veggienauts Map)
WG- War Garden (Veggienauts 2nd Generation Map)
CCM- Candy Core Mine (2v2 Map)
BB- Blitz Beach (2v2 Map)
MACH- Machination (2v2 Map)
ACRO- Acrospire (2v2 Map)
MECH- Mechanism (2v2 2nd Generation Map)
SR- Sugar Rock (2v2 2nd Generation Map)
Strategies and Tips:
Tips for New Players A must read if you're new to the game.
Paths of Attack and Outwitters Math A great thread by vivafringe that explains in detail the best paths of attacks on each map.
Super-Titan Replay Discussion This is the place to watch the best super-titan replays and to learn new strategies.
Reaper Rush Defense A couple of strategies to defend the Reaper Rush brought to you by iPro.
Making a Replay Link:
To Make a Replay Link:
1. Go to your completed games (at the bottom of your games page)
2. Hold your finger down on the completed game that you want the link for
3. A little sign saying "copy relay link" will show up, tap on that
4. Paste the link into safari to view it at later times

If you feel things should be added, please tell me and I will add them to the list.

-Coolio

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02-04-2013, 03:12 AM
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Great idea! I think this will really help those new to the forums.

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02-04-2013, 03:30 AM
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FTA & FoW?

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02-04-2013, 03:32 AM
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(02-04-2013 03:30 AM)phineas94 Wrote:  FTA & FoW?

Nice. Thanks. Added.

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02-04-2013, 03:41 AM
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It was quite topical, my last post was to a player who was poking fun at all the acronyms in use

(02-04-2013 02:05 AM)phineas94 Wrote:  You need to push home your FTA as P1, especially as an A on SFI, always take into consideration what may be happening in the FoW and pretty soon you'll be an ST.

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02-04-2013, 03:42 AM
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Haha I saw that thread!

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02-04-2013, 03:44 AM
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Any need for the A, F, S & V?

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02-04-2013, 04:10 AM
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RE: Outwitters Forum-Everything You Need To Know
Actually, yes. Not so much the terms on themselves, but, say, a replay w/ following descript:

REA - AvS

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02-04-2013, 04:12 AM
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(02-04-2013 04:10 AM)Gfich Wrote:  Actually, yes. Not so much the terms on themselves, but, say, a replay w/ following descript:

REA - AvS
I already did add them.

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02-04-2013, 04:14 AM
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^Yes, but he was doubting the need for it.

Also, I think i've seen the term BS for Bombshell multiple times on the fora.

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