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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | RTS /R-T-S/ imp. Abbreviation for `Read The Screen'. Mainly used by hackers in the microcomputer world. Refers to what one would like to tell the suit one is forced to explain an extremely simple application to. Particularly appropriate when the suit failed to notice the `Press any key to continue' prompt, and wishes to know `why won't it do anything'. Also seen as `RTFS' in especially deserving cases. Source: Jargon File. |
Census | (Retail Trade Survey) Provides data on estimated national and regional sales figures by kind of business. See also MRTS (Monthly Retail Trade Survey). (Services Division). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A real-time strategy game (RTS) is a type of computer game which does not have "turns" like conventional turn-based video or board games. Rather, game time progresses at a pre-defined rate (often changable by the player(s)).
The first RTS game was Dune 2, followed later by the likes of Warcraft, Empire Earth, Command and Conquer, Total Annihilation, and Age of Empires.
Because of the generally faster-paced nature (and the usually shallower learning curve), RTS games have exceeded the popularity of conventional turn based games. Many serious strategy gamers regard RTS games as "cheap imitations" of turn-based games because of the tendency of RTS games to devolve into "clickfests", in which the player who is faster with the mouse generally wins, because they can give orders to their units at a faster rate. Also, the faster pace masks the generally poor AI of the computer.
The more recent generations of RTS games usually have features which reduce the importance of fast mousework, enabling the player to focus more on overall strategy.
Usually RTS games follow the same general pattern:
However, some games do not allow the player to create new units, or build bases.
- Build up your base and forces (your economy)
- Acquire more resources
- Attack the enemy, attempting to deprive him of resources and destroy his infrastructure
Some of these games include Myth and Ground Control.
These games are purely tactical, forcing the player to make do with the units he or she is given. Most modern RTS games also feature single player campaigns - a series of missions where each mission has a different style of play, sometimes dramatically so.
Of the games that do allow the player to build up a base and an army, they seem to be diverging into at least two main camps: micro-management and macro-management.
Micro-management games allow an army and base to be built, but they limit the size of the army (sometimes, rather severely). The purpose of this is to create more of a tactical atmosphere, and to prevent one side from simply cranking out units and throwing them at the enemy until he collapses.
By limiting the size of the army, the game requires the player to intelligently utilize his "partially" limited troops. This is more similar to the purely tactical "myth" style games. A good example of this type of game is Warcraft III
On the other end are the macro-management games. These games encourage the creation of more massive armies, and often automatically take care of the "details" of individual unit control by organizing them into formations, intelligently maneuvering them, or using their special abilities automatically. Some examples of these types of games are Kohan and Kessen.
See Also: Myth, Warcraft III, Dune, StarCraft, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Command and Conquer, Turn-based game
Weblinks
- http://www.strat-games-chronics.com This page describes the history of the most important real-time strategie games from the very beginning
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Real-time strategy."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RTS | Dutch | Reliable transfer service | Computing |
RTS | English | Rapid translation system | N/A |
RTS | Portuguese | Serviço de transferência fiável | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: RTS |
| Specialty definitions using "RTS": hardware handshaking ♦ program counter ♦ run-time system. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "RTS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (reliable transfer, reliable transfer service). |
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| "Portrait notr" by > > E M R E T E L C I > Commentary: "(135mm f/2.8 Carl Zeiss on a Contax RTS II with a yellow filter)." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | The Government funds a Hungarian language newspaper and RTS provides some Hungarian language programming. (references) |
Yugoslavia | In 2000, immediately after the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) coalition took control of RTS, coverage on the station has been biased in favor of selected politicians and their political parties. (references) | |
Yugoslavia | Aside from the three RTS channels, the state has considerable influence, although not formal control, of the major television stations: TV Politika, TV Novi Sad, and YU INFO, as well as Radio Belgrade's three stations. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RTS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "RTS" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 92.31% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "RTS": monolog RTS association ♦ monologue RTS association. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "RTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | monolog RTS-forbindelse (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association), monolog interaktion (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association), envejs RTS-forbindelse (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
Dutch | éénrichtings-RTS-associatie (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
French | interaction monologue (monolog RTS association, monologue RTS association), association RTS unidirectionnel (monolog RTS association, monologue RTS association), association de RTS monologue (monolog RTS association, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
German | Monologue RTS-Assoziation (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
Greek | μονόδρομη συσχέτιση αξιόπιστης υπηρεσίας μεταφοράς (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association), μονόδρομη αλληλεπίδραση (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
Italian | interazione monodirezionale (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association), associazione RTS monodirezionale (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | rtsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | associação RTS para transferência de dados num único sentido (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association), associação RTS para monólogo (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association), associação para serviço de transferência fiável em monólogo (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
Spanish | asociación RTS en monólogo (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
Swedish | ensidig RTS-associering (monolog interaction, monolog RTS association, monologue interaction, monologue RTS association). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "RTS": aborts, adverts, airports, airts, alerts, ambiverts, animadverts, anteverts, applecarts, arts, asserts, assorts, averts, awlworts, backcourts, bellworts, birthworts, bistorts, blackhearts, bladderworts, blurts, boarts, borts, braggarts, brassarts, brownshirts, butterworts, carports, carts, cavorts, charts, cherts, coexerts, cohorts, coleworts, comforts, comparts, comports, concerts, consorts, containerports, contorts, controverts, converts, cotransports, counterefforts, counterparts, courts, coverts, culverts, dameworts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RTS": artsier, artsiest, artsy, athwartship, athwartships, courtship, courtships, courtside, courtsides, curtsey, curtseyed, curtseying, curtseys, curtsied, curtsies, curtsy, curtsying, dessertspoon, dessertspoonful, dessertspoonfuls, dessertspoons, dessertspoonsful, hartshorn, hartshorns, heartsease, heartseases, heartsick, heartsickness, heartsicknesses, heartsome, heartsomely, heartsore, heartstring, heartstrings, shirtsleeve, shirtsleeved, shirtsleeves, shortsighted, shortsightedly, shortsightedness, shortsightednesses, shortstop, shortstops, sportscast, sportscaster, sportscasters, sportscasting, sportscastings, sportscasts, sportsman, sportsmanlike. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: arts, erst, orts, rats, rest, rets, rots, rust, ruts, sort, star, stir, tars, tors, tsar. | |
+2 letters: airts, artsy, aster, astir, borts, brats, brits, burst, carts, crest, crust, curst, darts, dirts, drats, drest, durst, ester, first, forts, frats, frets, frits, frost, girts, grist, grits, grots, harts, horst, hurst, hurts, karst, karts, marts, morts, nerts, parts, ports, prats, prest, prost, rafts, rants, rates, ratos, reest, rents, reset, rests, rifts, riots, rites, roast, roost, roots, roset, rotas, rotes, rotis, rotls, rotos, roust, routs, runts, rusts, rusty, ruths, ryots, satyr, scart, shirt, short, sitar, skirt, smart, snort, sorts, spirt, sport, sprat, sprit, spurt, stair, stare, stark, stars, start, steer, stere, stern, stirk, stirp, stirs, store, stork, storm, story, stour, strap, straw, stray, strep, strew, stria, strip, strop, strow, stroy, strum, strut, sturt, sutra, swart, tahrs, tares, tarns, taros, tarps, tarsi, tarts, tears, terms, terns, terse, tiers, tires, tirls, tiros, toras, torcs, tores, toros, torse, torsi, torsk, torso, torts, torus, tours, trams, trans, traps, trash, trass, trays, trees, treks, tress, trets, trews, treys, tries, trigs, trims, trios, trips, trois, trots, trows, troys, trues, trugs, truss, trust, tryst, tsars, turds, turfs, turks, turns, turps, tyers, tyres, tyros, tzars, verst, verts, warts, worst, worts, wrest, wrist, writs, wurst, yurts. | |
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