attack = to initiate a race by clicking the race button
bc = Broadcast = send a message to everybody in a crew. Not very useful, since many people don't read Broadcasts, and once you have a large number of crew members there will be a lot of Broadcasts, and since you can only see the last 10 it is easy to miss one. In general these are used for exchanging crew codes.
build = how skill points were spent. For instance you could allocate your skill points mostly to Focus and Integrity and use that to do a lot of races quickly, or do a build heavy in Speed and Handling to win more races but less frequently.
camping = deliberately not gaining experience points (leveling up) and using income to buy more and more real estate. This is a good strategy to increase your cash flow but it can be boring since you are not racing.
crew = other players you have recruited or that have recruited you (it makes no difference who recruits who). The only effect this has is that it lets you use 1 car that you own to race with. Whether your crew members are level 1 or 200 makes no difference to your races. You can use 5 crew per level (i.e. level 20 = 100 crew members = 100 cars).
estate = a player's collection of City properties e.g. Parking Space, Used Car Lot, etc.
farming = Repetitively racing one other racer for their money. Different people have different definitions of what constitutes farming. Some consider even 1 unevenly matched race (i.e. crew of 100 vs crew of 10) to be farming. Some consider 3 or more races in succession to be farming. Personally I consider farming to be racing the same person over and over in more than one session by using links (as in the comments or from previous races). Farming is certainly within the rules of the game, however most consider it unethical (at some level) and there is the risk of getting multiple paybacks from people and their clan/crew members.
mb = message board
min-maxing = a generic strategy for RPGs involving doing the most or least of something to try to gain an advantage. For instance, putting all Skill points into one category, or running on as little upkeep as possible to maximize cashflow and investing it all into real estate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
pb = Payback. This is a bounty system where you can give a reward to a racer for beating another racer. You will also see people saying on comment pages that they will "max pb" somebody, in other words, put somebody on payback the maximum number of times possible in a day (25 times) and encourage their crew members to do the same.
PP = Prestige Points. These points are available through special offers (such as installing other Storm8 games) or can be purchased for real money from Storm8 and can be used to purchase various things: money, cars, change class, change racer name, etc.
RE = real estate = a player's collection of City properties
reset = to clear one's account including all stats, and return to level 0. Note that the promotional cars are one-time offers and will not be available after a reset.
RL = Racing Live
ROI = Return On Investment. This is a general term referring to the income gained per dollar spent on a City property. For instance when you buy your first parking space, the cost is 3000, and income is 50 so ROI would be 50/3000 = 1.667%. ROIs for properties decrease since the price increases by 10% of the original cost for each one that you buy. As you increase the number of properties of a particular type, ROIs will decrease significantly. For instance, if you had 200 Parking Spaces the next one would cost 63,000, giving an ROI of 0.08%.
Save mode = equivalent to camping.
Scarecrow = a good car that will appear on the racing list so as to hopefully trick people into thinking you have all good cars.
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