to noobSpin is to trick a fellow internet user into visiting a website they were not expecting to visit, a follow on to a Rickroll a noobSpin is often a lot more offensive and can be seen as an undescript url, tricking even veteran net users into clicking it.

Rush is an adjective describing a style of play, featuring in the majority of online multiplayer gaming communities it is believed to have been formally used starting with games such as Counterstrike, where by a “Rush” is when all players or some players run or Rush strait to an objective or game point.

Combined with a location it is often heard in such phrases as “Rush Long A” or “Rush Plant” in which the objective is noted and players agreeing will move swiftly to said point.

Links with counter-terrorist games are strong as the phrase features in films and other associated media relative to these genre games.

Rax means Barracks, it is used as a short hand by people discussing the game

Rates are a way of referring to a players upload/download rates set between their computer and the server. With relevance to First Person Shooter games such as counterstrike this is set within the games console/settings/config so as to allow a degree of control depending on the speed/quality of your internet connection (originally designed to help 56k gaming be a reality.)

Can be used in negative such as “Rates Mate RATES!!!” to imply that you have deliberately misconfigured your settings to allow you some advantage in the game.

There are several scripts including some built into mani admin mod that allow control of rates, automatic setting when a player joins and monitoring.

Ref is short had for Ore Refinary when talking aminly about build orders in Cnc Games

PP is a short hand way of writing power plant in the command and conquer games.

Micro is a shortened phrase used when refering to the micromanagement of a players units in an RTS game.

This means controlling an individual unit, rather than allowing the AI to take over and control the unit, or selecting a group and getting them to attack at once. Microing may also mean using more often advanced control methods on a unit.

Microing should increase unit effectiveness and reduce losses.

Micromanagement will take up a alot of your concentration power and time. As a general rule you should be spending a considerably longer time controlling your units in battles than managing your base.

Over microing can also be an issue, re-issueing orders that have already been sent may cause the unit to miss/stop firing for a brief period of time.

Steamrollered refers to a situation where you are unable to defend against an oppositions attack. The phrase is used theb playing team games in FPS games and also when talking about being attacked by and enemys army in a RTS game.

This will often happen in a RTS game when the person getting steamrollered has not built enough units to counter an attack from the opposition.

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Focus Fire means to select all your units and fire them at one target. This may be used to destroy a particular unit before it can kill ones own. It mabe a more efficient way of taking out an opponents unit than firing 1 on 1.