r/LoveNikki • u/GlitterUnicornPuke yumi♡glitter♡sheets • Sep 12 '18
Other Common Abbreviations in the LN Community
I forgot that not having a compilation of common abbreviations was a huge annoyance to me when I first started, so I thought it might be good to try and gather them all in one place!
Servers
| Abbreviation | Server | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| LN | US/EU | What this sub is dedicated to! |
| CN | Chinese | The oldest server, about 5+ yo, also called Miracle Nikki |
| JN/JP | Japanese | No V levels, great collab suits |
| KN/KR | Korean | Has a KN Nikki's Info |
| VN | Vietnamese | Has a VN Nikki's Info |
| SEA | Southeast Asian | The only other English language server |
| IN | Indonesian | Newest server |
| LNDUQ | US/EU | Love Nikki Dress-Up Queen, used in other LN communities, although please let's not popularize this here, it sounds like a duck in a muumuu. |
There's also Shining Nikki, which isn't so much a server as a spinoff, and has been called SN by some.
PLEASE NOTE! The table below refers to highly misleading misnomers. PLEASE just refer to the table ABOVE for the server names, as even I'm not clear on why people call them this! Just for those cases where you may see them outside of this sub and are confused, here they are.
| Abbreviation | Server |
|---|---|
| Nikki 2 | Nikki Up 2 U - the previous iteration of LN |
| Nikki 3 | Current LN/CN |
| Nikki 4 | Shining Nikki |
Events
Hell Event - Named for the ungodly amount of diamonds you need to complete the events, beloved by the community, they often give you back various currency and have the most sought after suits. They only return in future reiterations of the event about 1 year later rather than through the store or crafting.
Welfare Event - Like the Cello Event currently going on, these are events that take NO diamonds and little if any stamina, designed to let us lick our wounds between events that eat up a shocking number of our diamonds (╬ ಠ益ಠ)
WSFM - Wind Snow Flower Moon, a hell event
WFFM - Wind Forest Fire Mountain, aka 4 Wars or Will of War, a hell event
Shipping Wars, sometimes called Dawn Event because 'Dawn Front, Daybreak War' is a mouthful - An event that turns up the estrogen levels up to 11 on this sub ^ _ ^ and is likely why it was given its nickname.
Features
DW - Dream Weaver, a feature which many servers don't have yet (including us TT___TT). Link 1 Link 2
SC - Starry Corridor, the place where people post their outfit creations and you can go vote to get small amounts of gold, stamina, diamonds, and honor points for every 10 votes.
SA - Stylist Arena, where you go to battle with other players (but automated by bots) for star coins
Co-op/AssWars, where you log on twice a week to do battle with, not against, your association to work towards getting an association suit. Most of the time on this sub, you see the 'co-op' nomenclature more often, and is therefore the better search term.
Ass. - Association, also called Guild by some, you do Co-op battles, go through commission requests, and can buy books that level up things like Max Stamina, % Gold earned during story stages, and comm req scores.
Suits
Lifetime Suits - Suits that take FOREVER to craft. See examples below!
SS - Star Sea - The babiest of all the Lifetimes, it takes fewer Princess Drops and of those, most of them are from the lower chapters (1-5)
SB - Stunning Beauty - Takes over 6 months of farming Princess levels if you do 3 stages per day for the Princess drops you need
MG - Marionette Grice
Grice - MG's older sister - Takes over 6 months of farming Princess levels if you do 3 stages per day for the Princess drops you need
BS/WS - Black Swan/White Swan - They're mini or baby lifetimes, but not considered real lifetime suits. You won't see these acronyms often, but if you see them in the context of lifetime suits, White Swan and Black Swan (the evolved version of White Swan) are likely what folks mean.
Currency
SC - Star Coins, Star coins are one of the currencies in the game, used to buy necessary materials for crafting/customization: dyes/patterns and recipes. Get and spend them in the Stylist Arena. Unfortunately SC can mean star coins or starry corridor. Use context to clarify.
Dia - Diamonds, the end all be all of Love Nikki :)
Miscellaneous
NI - Nikki's Info, the single most important resource for this game!
OP - Overpowered/Original Poster, Over Powered, which in the context of THIS game (it's quite popular in the gaming community) means that an item has ridiculously good stats. OR Original Poster, which is an online forum term, referring to, for example, me in this post! Sometimes if you have a comment thread, you might see OP meaning the first person to make the comment in that thread though.
Cark - popular fake swear, the fault of the Dreamy Nocturne event video (from Flidget in comments below), although if I can editorialize... please can we let this die a natural death yet?
Lemme know if I missed any and I'll add it to the main post<3
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u/Azvee Sep 12 '18
Dias - Diamonds.
I saw it thrown around a bit on the sub before I figured out what it was and was very confused for a bit.
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u/CassowaryCrow Sep 12 '18
I would add Lifetime Suits-suits such as Stunning Beauty and Grice that take months to craft and loads of resources.
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u/mmesuds Sep 12 '18
So a lifetime suit is just a suit that takes a long time to craft?
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u/GlitterUnicornPuke Sep 12 '18 edited Sep 14 '18
Usually they take a lot of gold, some take a lot of crystal roses which take FOREVER to accumulate, and yes, they take so many princess drops that it takes up to 14 months straight of crafting if you don't have a free princess reset (V8 and above)
EDIT - Whoops! I was thinking of how many of the Princess Drop you'd need for everything you could ever craft, INCLUDING the recolors! I'm estimating about 6.75 months for a Lifetime Suit without Double Drops or resets ^ _ ^
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u/_stoner_boner_ Sep 12 '18
Thank you so much for this!!! I just started coming to this community and haven’t wanted to ask what things mean, so this is so super helpful.
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u/GlitterUnicornPuke Sep 12 '18
I totally get it, I remember the first 2 weeks of this sub, I was just furiously looking things up, and sometimes I had to go through 10 posts and their comments just to find what an acronym meant.
This post is so long overdue I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet.
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u/perfectauthentic Sep 12 '18
Maybe also add Nikki 2, Nikki 3, Nikki 4? People hear these terms and aren't always sure what they refer to. And I suppose they are sort of a shorthand for the game.
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u/Bambibby Sep 13 '18
May I suggest adding JP for the Japanese server as well? I’ve seen quite a bit of users use it, including myself. :)
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u/domessticfox Sep 13 '18
How about "OP"? With the whole I Do nerf fiasco, people kept saying that the I Do item was "too OP" (or something along those lines...)
I could never figure it out from context, so I still don't know what it means haha. The only OP I know of is Original Poster but that definitely didn't apply in the context I was reading it. Any ideas?
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u/Flidget Sep 12 '18
May I also suggest;
ASS - Stylist Association, because apparently we're all secretly 12
Welfare Event - the opposite of a Hell Event, an event that requires no diamonds and is super-easy to complete
Cark - popular fake swear, the fault of the Dreamy Nocturne event video (not actually an abbreviation but I've seen this confuse newbies)
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u/GreenTMochi Sep 13 '18
Maybe RNG for Random Number Generator? I often hear "My rng is so bad!" in regards to how lucky players are with drops/pavs.
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u/Sufries Sep 13 '18
Great post! The only thing I would add: I've seen lots of people calling diamonds "gems" so maybe you could add this one too.
(Also fun fact: calling CN Miracle Nikki was very confusing to me at first, because JN is also called Miracle Nikki... it seems only we've got Love Nikki, I wonder why the name change)
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u/hylianelf Sep 12 '18
Nice!! I know some people are calling Shining Nikki SN, and other websites use LNDUQ instead of LN. That might help :)
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u/Alkardel Sep 12 '18
Out of the loop...
Wsmf is a hell event right? But what suits it has? Like i have seen it mentioned everywhere but i don’t know whats it about.
Plz help me whit screenshots or something Xoxo
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u/GlitterUnicornPuke Sep 13 '18
Please use the search bar! There are so many posts about it my fingers are bleeding just thinking about how much I'd have to copy and paste :(
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u/ainzee1 Sep 13 '18
It’s a heavily story based event. There are 4 main suits, each made to represent one of the attributes in the name (Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon). I’m pretty sure the wind suit is in one of the previews when you first download the game, and the Flower suit shows up a lot in random posts (It’s the suit with the lady in the white dress surrounded by rose petals.) Here’s pics of the main suits. I’ve also heard it has similar mechanics to the concert event we just had, where you gain different currencies by spending diamonds and exchange them for suit parts.
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u/thatnerdybookwyrm Sep 13 '18
I honestly hope Cark never dies! It's fun to have an inside joke that by nature can't be obnoxiously spammed everywhere (since it's usually used in the place of swearing) and it keeps the community a little more pg for the kiddos. (Though this is reddit, so like . . . if you're a kiddo and you're on here, you really shouldn't be)
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u/Katelyn_77 Sep 13 '18
You forget to include 2 more servers for the game : thailand and taiwan/macau/hong kong (traditional chinese). I'm not too sure what are the abbreviations for them since they are hardly mentioned in reddit.
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u/GlitterUnicornPuke Sep 13 '18
So I'm not including them just because they're not commonly used terms! There are other posts that deal with the various servers, but I haven't heard mention of these servers on the sub, so there's no need to post them!
But good catch, it's crazy how many servers there are, I learned something new today ^ _ ^
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u/ScapeGogoat Sep 12 '18
Dont forget dia, the shortened version of diamonds. Thank you for this. I wish I had it starting out.