Welcome to a new era in ACP. First I would like to thank Saint for the new ACP site Banner. Saint is very talented and the banner shows that. What a great job! Now as we say goodbye to our great friend and leader, Saint, it is time to look ahead at what the future holds for ACP. We are growing every day. We get an average of 15 new recruits each weekday, and 25+ each on Saturday and Sunday. We ARE the official Army of Club Penguin and as such we conduct ourselves that way. That carries over from chat, to Comments, to Club Penguin, and it gets results. Because of our rapid and impressive growth, we are quickly over filling our Corporal through warrant officer ranks. We need to allow for promotion without over loading the ranks above that. Also our officer ranks and general ranks below mod are very populated. We cannot promote 30 new mods each promo day and 15 new generals. We need a way to show merit in promotions but keep a reasonable number of mods and top general ranks. After Sergeant Major General, it is very difficult to get a promotion, how do we fix that? Do we raise the mod rank?
So I am looking for ideas ACP. What would you, the soldiers like to see in the way of ranks, from top to bottom. We will select the best ideas and have a poll to decide, then come promotion day we will roll out the new ranks and see how we did.
Next on the horizon is the election of ACP ambassadors. These positions will be filled by election. The two top vote getters will become ACP ambassadors and will hold that title untill the new elections. The Ambassadors will function as a welcoming comittee to the new recruits, plan events such as recruiting and parties, have a weekly column on ACP giving us the latest news around the armies, and other special roles as they come up. More to come on the rules and nominations for this on Sunday.
Senate. We have a new senate VP in Drnonojr. I welcome his experience and knowledge to the team. He is a great asset to the senate. We have some vacant spots in the senate to fill. These will be filled by a nomination and vote from the senate. New senate elections will be held again in 4 months, and then again when the new leader of ACP takes command.
Next would be the Moderators. The back bone of our chat. Recently we held a mod test to determine our mods for the future. If you did not pass, you were demodded. Good news! We will be conducting another mod test in September, so all those newly promoted and those who did not pass last time will have a second chance. Look for the test to come out mid september.
General ranks. In the next week or so, we will have a comment poll to determine who among our general ranks, Brigadier and up are still active. You will only need to comment that you are active, I have the vacation list, and those members will be exempt.
Officer ranks. After the completion of the general ranks, we will be doing an active officers comment by rank. Each few days, a new officers rank will be used in the active comment poll. This will be Lieutenants to Colonel. This will help streamline the officers ranks and help tremendously with promotions.
As always, the leadership is always open to new ideas to improve or help ACP. The new leaders will shortly, have their ACP email posted on the site. Please feel free to email any concerns or suggestions to any or all leaders. Your input is important and welcomed.
Finally, I am proud to serve as your leader. I am looking forward to leading ACP to a bright future. I realize I have some big shoes to fill. The legacy left by Boomer, and then Saint, is huge. I can only hope to come close to that. For those that know me, I hope you agree, for those that do not know me, I want to assure you that I will always put the best for ACP first in any decisions and will always be fair in resolving conflict. You will never see me curse, and you will never get anything but the honest truth from me. I am tenaciously loyal, and expect loyalty to ACP in return. Any soldier who for what ever reason left ACP to join the NG, is welcome back to ACP. No questions asked. You need only to ask. And to leave NG behind. I feel together, we can march proudly into a bright future for ACP. Thanks, and y’all be good now : )
Dryvit.
