Hello ACP!
Over the past year or so, we’ve seen nearly a constant decline in the ACP. The only things that have changed have been the leaders and graphics and site business that soldiers don’t necessarily care about. Today I have witnessed what I believe to be the last straw. We maxed twenty at our event and will probably keep that number if we don’t change, and fast. So what about twenty is good? Back in the day (Haha I feel old) in around 2009-2011, the ACP would achieve sizes of 60-70 sometimes at good events. Other armies would get anywhere from 20-40. When you got 20, you might have not been on the top 10 (If it was even around at that time). Come to think, that was the size of a small army. Now it’s the number 2 army? Something is not right. Whatever the case, we at Capncook Research Academy of Penguins (C.R.A.P) have pinpointed a few items that could be contributing to our current state. I’m sure you’d all like to know what these things are, so why don’t I tell you? Well I will, but you have to understand that a few might be offensive and you’ll have to deal with that for the good of the ACP.
–Owners are incompetent (Not all)
–Owners need to communicate more often
–Generals need to be trained
–Soldiers need more of a voice
-Divisions need to be brought back
-*****Tactics need to be more than just lines and basic bombs*****
-Wars need better justification
Now before everyone tries to kill me for insulting them, let me explain these problems and add a few pictures for those who aren’t too fond of words (Note these are not solutions yet)…
I thought this song might make sense here:
I. -Owners are incompetent (Not all)
I honestly don’t know if I should even leave the owners who I have in mind as “incompetent” anonymous. I feel like every time we do this, no one ever knows who they are and who needs to be changed. However, for their safety I will not this last time. However, let me at least explain the point. For as long as I can remember, there have always been weak links in the ACP administrations for just about every leader thus far. This person was nearly unlikable and the soldiers just wanted to fire them. I wish I could give examples, but then the Shaboomboom House of Intelligence and Trouble-making (S.H.I.T) or the Boomer Intelligence Team of Child Happiness (B.I.T.C.H) would be on my case. So let’s not be rude for now. Anyway, the problem has escalated to the point where there is no longer one weak link, but several. This is rather alarming, and I believe the soldiers know exactly who it is. Now maybe I should explain what the said problem pertains to. I think it’s a lot of laziness and a lack of motivation for a number of the current owners. LET’S FIX IT!
II. -Owners need to communicate more often
This one is a given really. I think there is a huge lack of communication between almost all of the owners. I will use myself as an example here because I’m seriously at fault for this one. Although I go on chat everyday at least once (I make an effort to and it turns out to be an easy thing even though I am fairly busy), I have not talked to Foldez in three days. haven’t seen Fluffyboy3 for more than 15 minutes at a time and haven’t been able to figure out what he’s doing in terms of the ACP. I have not seen Soup and don’t know where he is, although I thought he was moving somewhere maybe? Tori has also been very distant lately and has seem very unmotivated for the ACP which has caused a lack of communication with us. Finally, I have hardly talked to Mchappy who always seems to be away from his keyboard when everyone needs him. Of course, I corrected that last one today by having some tea with him. Oh and who could forget Flipmoo? I haven’t seen him in awhile but he is exempt from this as he lives in Japan.
III. -Generals need to be trained
Oh boy where do I start. Let’s get the mean stuff out of the way first. The ACPTR has proven to be absolutely useless. Students who come out of it are the same as every other ACP soldier. In fact, hardly anyone comes out of it anymore. The ACPTR also cuts into ACP event times sometimes which needs to stop. To prove these claims, I want you to take a good hard look at our Generals and tell me with utmost honesty that all of them, not just one or two, are fit for leading. I truly believe many of them are simply too incompetent to lead. BUT THAT’S ALRIGHT, because no one’s going anywhere right now, including Mchappy who is bound by contract to stay with us for at least five more leadership terms. We should however, try to fix this problem with the Generals, and I will tell you the ultimate way later in the post.
IV. -Soldiers need more of a voice
I have been and will hopefully always be a man of the people. This is more of a demand at this point. Soldiers, you need more of a voice! Leaders need to give you the opportunity to get involved in affairs that are important but won’t endanger the ACP as a whole. Just as Boomer20 did so long ago, I wholeheartedly believe that you soldiers are the backbone of this army and that without you, the army would cease to exist. So it’s only fair that you voice your opinions right? This includes things like 3ic elections, senate elections, policy changes, who knows what. All I can say is there will be a better way soldiers can voice their opinions from now on.
V. -Divisions need to be brought back
Alright, let’s get down to business. The ACP once had divisions and they were probably some of the most fun things to be in as a General (Or Division General). I loved my divisions so much. Once I was the leader of Delta (In fact the last leader of Delta Division, alongside Jediseth) and I also led Alpha Division once or twice. MAN! I am just dying of nostalgia thinking about it. Albeit they were not perfect, I feel like we can functionally bring back divisions now. However, I will get into that later in this post along with the rest of the possible solutions.
VI. –*****Tactics need to be more than just lines and basic bombs*****
OH BOY WHERE DO I START? I’m so going to get fired first of all. Anyway, first let’s focus on the leaders. You all… I am sorry to tell you… Aren’t very good at being creative with tactics on Club Penguin during battles. You also have issue knowing when to use tactics. However, I am guilty of this too. Wow this whole paragraph is highly conceited, but it is necessary I suppose. Yea, I’m not a perfect leader, but I’ll be damned if anyone has done any real tactics lately. All we do now is make formations and do simple charges. Might I remind you that tactics recently have been dull and boring. DO BETTER TACTICS, CREATE MORE TACTICS, MAKE THE ROLE PLAYING ASPECT OF THE GAME MORE FUN AND LASTLY, THROW MORE SNOWBALLS!
VII. -Wars need better justification
Guys, we’re not barbarians. Although we fight for fun, I think it’s a bit unfair sometimes to declare war on helpless armies. If the Nachos declared war on the Night Divers or something (Just an example) then who do you think would win? The number one army? Or the number fifteen army? That’s a rhetorical question. Specifically I want to hone in on the recent war between the ACP and the Federation. Mchappy and I have discussed many times that it was unjustified for the ACP to declare war on the Federation. They were a fresh, new army with good intentions. They were led by our late leader, Kingfunks, and they didn’t actually steal troops from us. So next time, let’s just have more justification and evidence before we do anything irrational.
I felt like this song might calm everyone’s nerves down after that offensive first half:
Wow, that was hard to write. This has taken some time and effort, but it’s not over yet. Now I must talk about solutions to these issues because well, I have a few and I don’t want to be a jerk. Although these won’t have pretty pictures or anything, sorry. Just a few solutions and explanations. Also, I’d like to add a poll to the end of this post to see what everyone thinks about the solutions.
1. We really can’t fix incompetent owners at the moment. All we can do for now is get us owners working harder. In the meanwhile, we CAN prevent incompetence from entering our leader ranks. Here’s how, and I mean this not so egotistically so please save those insults for later. I’d like to nominate myself to start a training program for the General ranks where they would learn how to be good leaders. I know if I can get through to them, there will be no more incompetence for a few generations, and hopefully someone can take my place when I am finished.
2. Owners NEED to communicate more often. Guys, we’re not enemies, we’re friends! Or at least we should be. Like Shab once said, we need to work as a team, not as individuals. Which is why I’d like to propose that we owners have a meeting twice a month (Every two weeks) to discuss the state of the ACP and once a month the leader (Whoever they are) will publish a post regarding said state of the ACP.
3. Generals NEED to be trained to lead! Generals, I want you guys to be fit for leading this army by the time you become third in commands. Not only that I’d like you guys to be role models for the members and essentially be SUPER SOLDIERS. Doesn’t that sound badass? I don’t know about you but I’d like to be a super soldier. The way I thought to solve this problem was the exact thing I stated in number one, two paragraphs above this one.
4. Soldiers need more of a voice. This is a necessity. Soldiers need to participate and vote in elections, wars, etc. Everything that involves decisions to be made that won’t harm the ACP. Now I will warn you, there will always be things that only a select few people can vote on because some things would be too chaotic for soldiers to vote on as a body and might divide the army. We don’t want that unless it’s for divisions which are hopefully friendly with each other.
5. As I was saying, divisions should be brought back! 😀 Divisions were so much fun I assure you. There are many ways you can go about doing this. However, since the ACP is relatively small for the time being, I’d like to keep it simple. Two divisions for now. Keep the phonetic code and do just Alpha and Bravo division please. This would mean a new moderator rank titled Division General that only four people would be. These people are above the General rank and have an equal chance of earning third in command as the Generals. If you’re a Division General though, you’re probably the cream of the crop, and there’s just no open third in command spots yet.
6. Tactics, tactics, tactics. Tactics need a whole post dedicated to them because there’s too much to say. We need a tactics revolution. We need more advanced (But yet simple) tactics. We need to grow out of our basic formations and charges because they don’t do much for us on the battlefield. I will say, we do need to work on formations, but not simple ones, only ones that will give us strategic advantage over the enemy in a war. We also need people to create tactics and have U-leads to incorporate them into events regularly. Finally, we will need to do a big thing… THROW MORE SNOWBALLS!
7. Last but not least, we need better justification for war. We can’t pull an America and attack people just because we THINK they MIGHT have big weapons. You need evidence, support, and reason to declare war. That is what makes up justification in this case and that is what you (All leaders of all armies) should think about using before you declare war at all.
Wow! This is a long post, so why not end it. ACP, I hope we have all learned something today. I hope we have learned that if we keep traveling along our current path, the ACP will fall, and it will lead to the destruction of many other armies. So I leave you tonight with a few polls. Should we approve some of these things? I think we should approve all of them and work very hard to keep them going. It will be the new regime, the regime that brings the ACP to the top, and not a single leader will need to change or lose power or any of that useless garbage that is involved. Let’s work together and fix the ACP and the Club Penguin Army community for good!
Poll: (Write Yes or No in the comments)
Should we approve Capn’s plan for…
-Incompetent Owners
-Better Owner Communication
-General Training (And Removal of the ACPTR)
-Giving Soldiers More Opinion
-New Divisions
-Better Tactics
-Better Justification For War
-Capncook, ACP 3ic
P.S. COMMENT WHAT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT SOME OF THE OPINIONS OR FACTS OR IDEAS DISPLAYED IN THIS POST ALONG WITH THE POLL!
