Response to RPF’s Declaration of War

Addressed to Rebel Penguin Federation and CPR community.

Earlier today the Rebel Penguin Federation declared war on the Army of Club Penguin. They stated their sole reason for doing so was because of the leaked staff chats several days ago. I will address everything here, to show the community that the declared reasons were completely unwarranted, and RPF declared war simply, to pick on a smaller army.


CP Army Media Bias
In their post, the RPF first discuss the leaked screenshots that address a “CPAM Bias”. As addressed in my previous response post, I was part of setting up CPAM, and helped in any way I could to get it off its feet. The “allegation” that a staff member is part of the CPAM staff team with an “explicit plan to take down [RPF]” is exaggerated at best – and is indeed completely false. Earthing was NOT a member of CPAM staff. He also left as soon as the chats were leaked. (Post). Unless I’m missing something, there is no evidence suggesting ACP/CPAM corruption, other than some random trash-talking.

In fact, the following picture shows that Ayan, CPAM CEO, has no issue with any of the leaked images regarding CPAM. 

If CPAM’s CEO has no issue with it, then why do RPF? Why are you fighting a battle on behalf of CPAM – that CPAM themselves don’t acknowledge exists?

Public statement made by Ayan about how CPAM and ACP relations are still strong after this incident.

From the above – The claim that ACP has a “plan” or whatever against CPAM is complete and utter, bollocks. Let’s move on to the 2nd point, to see if they have better substantiations for the war.

Trash-talk
RPF stated 2 things that they took issue with in terms of “Trash-talking”:

Part 1: Personal attacks against HCom

Let us dissect the leaked screenshots one by one.

a) The first is former RPF and retired ACP leader Koloway. He is no longer a part of ACP. If you have an issue with Koloway – take it with him, not ACP – if you believe that by association we are guilty, RPF too are by association guilty, for Koloway is ex-RPF staff too.

b) The second is former RPF SaltSlasher (Bschar). He’s a known troll – but that doesn’t excuse his statements. Below is a statement that I sent to the affected alliance leaders.

The fact that RPF themselves never took action against Bschar, especially for inappropriate jokes he made in RPF speaks volumes to the fact that Bschar is not to be taken seriously at the very least; or that because he’s now not associated with RPF, heavens forbid the troll comments he makes.

(This was part of the “leaks”)

c) The third is against an HCom member of RPF, Cosmos. The concerned “trash talk” includes

Which… okay? You can argue that Cosmos is not narcissistic, I guess. As well as me making my classic “bow down to xxx” joke, which I’ve been known to do… everywhere.

Comment made by CSY to Epic.

d) Other involved members include Robot, Chek, Aurora, (Bschar and koloway already mentioned). These were all former RPF soldiers. The fact that no non-former RPF were actually involved in big trash-talking speaks volumes in itself.

Part 2: Raiding Events

3 ACP members logged onto CPR, saw RPF, then dressed up as pizza chefs, ONCE. You make it sound like we spied on you guys, scheduled a raid, formed a whole group to take you down. This was completely spontaneous and hardly a scheduled act of war against the RPF.

In addition, at multiple instances, when RPF have been group recruiting, ACP have left for another room/server to not interfere with RPF out of respect. When Cosmos DM’ed me about an ACP shouting “ACP” in an RPF event, I swiftly handled the situation and ensured it wouldn’t happen again.

Part 3: Allegations on “Creating a Tournament”

Kailey, a supervisor claimed that RPF “created a tournament”. Was this further discussed? Was this brought up with HCom? Was this proposed to CPAM?

The answer to all of the above is “No”. ACP never thought RPF created a tournament. One moderator put it as a conspiracy theory, no one fed into it, no posts were made about it. Am I supposed to censor a random conspiracy theory that everyone knows isn’t true?

Part 4: Hypocrisy

The worst “statements” made to the RPF by actual members of our staff is probably Bschar calling RPF incompetent. Again, ex RPF member calling RPF incompetent. The statements RPF has made against ACP are perhaps even worse, Elmikey, ex RPF commander, wishing death to our entire army:


If you think that isn’t enough, here’s a member of RPF threatening to kill Nick’s friend.

There’s a huge difference between calling someone incompetent in a staff chat and publicly wishing death to another army and their friends in main chat. Why is this okay?

Let’s talk further about the RPF toxicity.

RPF have been coming over to the ACP chat to screenshot our messages, making fun of our members in their main. Whilst I acknowledge and appreciate the efforts of their moderation team to curb it – it shows that the “culture of toxicity” or whatever exists in RPF too. ACP is working on fixing things, just like RPF is.


ACP’s Apology

“The post serves as a method of justifying what was found instead of actively making strides to improve.”

Message to Ulti dated 25th April:

Further proof of messages dated 25th April, with increased moderation of staff chats, staff announcements, and promises of ACP working to rectify the situation.

In case it wasn’t already evident:
During the tournament, a lot of toxicity, foreign relations and hatred towards the community was fostered. We declared independence on April 19th to move away from all of this.

This matter has been addressed by ACP HCom.

Despite being shown evidence of ACP’s attempt to rectify the situation, despite proof that ACP has already had plans in motion to improve the environment, dated as far back as April 19th, RPF still believes that “ACP has made no strives to improve”. 

All of this was already shown to Ultipenguinj as early as the 25th of April. This indubitably shows that the declaration of war was NOT because we weren’t taking any action.

Concluding Response to the Declaration of War

The reasons of declaration of war are weak at best, and completely exaggerated at worse. The only valid argument is perhaps the “trash-talk” made against RPF, which were, unfortunately, instigated by ex-RPF. What’s happening there such that their ex members bear so much hatred to somewhere they once called home?

ACP wants to further respond to RPF’s dirty tactics in this “war”.

Invasion Schedule
First, we look at the invasion schedule set by the RPF. This involves 4 invasions, with 2 occuring at 9am EST and two occurring at 9pm EST. This is an overwhelmingly cowardly move – invading two servers at one time? Why won’t the RPF fight us, one server at a time? Or are they just trying to play dirty? 
Terms
RPF wants to take the high road in this – but behind the “facade” of righteousness lies their true intentions – to bully a smaller army. Their term prevents ACP from bringing any allies to battle.

RPF maxes 180. ACP maxes 50.

If ACP are as toxic and hate-able as RPF claim, why is this term necessary, given that all armies should righteously flock towards RPF’s support?

The reason is this: They know that ACP is easy picking. They want an easy war, masquerading under pretenses of justice.

Emcee’s Involvement

The next piece of information will be some sad news for many ACP soldiers, but contrary to our former belief, we have reason to believe our former third-in-command, Emcee, was involved in the ACP leak. We are not 100% sure but we have some very strong proof on the matter.

Concluding Remarks
ACP do not believe that, nor do we defend the words said against RPF or HF. We simply believe that it speaks volumes as to how all the anti-RPF sentiments came from ex-RPF staff; staff issues that were NOT addressed until they decided to join ACP.

I have here, compiled why RPF’s reasons of declaration not only fall apart at 2nd glance – but how RPF themselves KNOW that these are not sound reasons.

Firstly, alleged “plot” to take down RPF with CPAM was from someone that wasn’t even CPAM staff, and has already left the CPA community, and CPAM’s public statements of good relations with ACP.

Secondly, the fact that moderation was not taken against community acclaimed “troll” Bschar during his time in RPF, to the interesting observation that the main catalysts of “trash-talking” RPF were by ex RPF soldiers, to the final hypocrisy surrounding public, main RPF members stating their wish to murder people from ACP. At least we kept it in staff chats, you guys have anti-ACP remarks in main that are far more severe than “incompetence”.

Thirdly, allegations that ACP’s post was for damage control are complete lies, given the plethora of evidence I’ve shown of me assuring Ulti that things were being changed, given that as soon as the tournament ended, ACP already tried to take a step in the right direction. RPF knew all of this, yet still tried to declare war.

We must ask now – why is it that RPF declared war? The public image of RPF is a big gaming community for people to have fun. It’s easy to take screenshots out of context and then hate on ACP. The fact that RPF wants ACP, an army that maxes 3x less than them, to show up at 2 places at the same time. The fact that RPF won’t allow ACP to even up the playing field by asking for allies, even though they claim us to be despicable.

This is a classic case of a bully on the playground, trying to pick on someone smaller, and justifying it with a masquerade of “righteousness”. If these were the actual issues, Ulti would have approached us – instead, he ignored all my DMs of me addressing the situation and taking steps to improve.

And yes, call us cowardly. We will defend our capital – but only our capital. Because when a 6th grader threatens to beat a 3rd grader up on the playground, fighting back is not a smart option.

Signed,
CSY – ACP Leader
Max – ACP UK Leader
Funky – ACP US Leader
Mchappy – ACP PoG

[UK/US] Star Wars Takeover Event Results


Hello there ACP!
Today we logged into Mammoth in CPATG for our Star Wars themed event! We had loads of fun going around the island while screaming Star Wars puns and in the end had to save Princess Zel-Leia from the Galactic Empire!

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May the force be with you ACP!
ACP’s Poster Boy


ACP еженедельный обзор #9 19th to 25th апрель

HEY TROOPS OF ACP!
Here we are, passing by another week, time flies. Anywho, summer is right around the corner, make sure to keep cool if you live in the areas where its getting hot already(im looking at you california >_>)
We had a pretty active week and it was groovy! especially the alpha echo tournament 😀
We also defended our most awesome server in the Great Defense of MAMMOTH!!!!!!
Anywho, again, if theres any ideas, input, or suggestions, let me know and it might be considered!

Shoutouts to PurpleSlime 4 she started this way back, Kolo for the new Graphics!, staff and hcom for keeping ACP strong!, the troops especially for attending these awesome events and making ACP happen!
Enough snoring, lets go to the RECAP!!!

>>ANNOUNCEMENTS<<
Goes into depth of recent situations, its an excellent read!

Sunday 19th of April

Posts
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

LAST WEEK’S RECAP

Monday 20th of April
Events
[AUSIA] Pizza Gang Takeover!

Size: 45
Tactic rating: 7/10

[UK] Music Jam!

Size: 56+
Tactic rating: 7.5/10

[US] Purple Takeover!

Size: 50
Tactic rating: 7.5/10

[SPEC OPS] Random Hat Takeover!

Size: 40
Tactic rating: 7/10

Posts
None

Tuesday 21st of April
Events
[UK] Operation: Flying Penguins!

Size: 75
Tactic rating: 8/10

[US] Operation Flood!

Size: 31
Tactic rating: 8/10

Posts
None
Wednesday 22nd of April
Events
[AUSIA] Stamp Collecting Event!

Size: 51
Tactic rating: 8/10

[UK] Operation: Animal Kingdom!

Size: 80
Tactic rating: 8/10

Posts
None
Thursday 23rd of April
Posts
Friday 24th of April
Events
[AUS] Defense of Mammoth – Success!

Size: 30
Tactic rating: 9.5/10

[US] PENGUIN PLAY AWARDS EVENT

Size: 35
Tactic rating: 8/10

Posts

[VICTORY] War with Gigi Hadid Army is Over!

In Response to the Recent “ACP Exposé”

Saturday 25th of April
Events
[UK/US] Alpha vs Echo Tournament!

Size: 38
Tactic rating: 9/10

ALPHA WINS, BOOOYA! THE BEST!

great team even though I dont like the color red ._.

Posts
None

UK + US Force


Current average size: 64+^

Performance rating: 8/10 =


AUSIA Force


Current average size: 40+^


Performance rating: 7.8/10 =

Overall performance: 15.8/20!


Thanks to all troops who’ve helped ACP grow this week by attending these fun events! and the staff/hcom as well! ACP is growing at a steady pace and will continue too!

*The rating is calculated with last week’s

We had 12 successful events this week!!


 We had 4 AUSIA events, 3 UK events, 4 US events, and 1 UK/US events


The highest sizes we’ve reached this week were up to 80 during the [UK] Operation: Animal Kingdom event!

  18 posts were posted throughout the week! 😮

UK+US both are first with an average score of 8/10 for the tactic rating and  AUSIA‘s trailing with a tactic rating of 7.8/10.

Homestretch, I watched a bunch of Youtube and its interesting how its algorithms give old vids and stuff in its recommendations. Here are a bunch of random ones I came across this week. Also I did get the random pics back in these recaps. If you have any ideas or suggestions, let me know and I might just add it! or just decline it

RANDOM YOUTUBE VIDS

space
ouch ;-;
ayy thats cool!
Who needs nitro??
Records might need updating >_>
for the US/”””CA””” Division
lol

Alright, Remember to keep up to date with events and other posts and such! Come chat in discord and get to know your fellow troops. Its getting late, peace, everyone stay safe and make good choices T-T 

[SPEC OPS] OPERATION: STACHE

Yo whats up troops of ACP!
This is Aeropos coming to you from behind a computer monitor. Today we went full out in SPEC OPS and wore these new mustache item things in a special cataloge! We went around showing off how cool it all was! With these new items we went to the iceberg and proceeded to tip it! Jk not actually possible afaik, who knows >_> . 
We maxed 42! our awesome 3rd in command, Princess Zel-Leia(lol), led the event and it was so epic that those who didn’t make it should’ve been there >< . Make sure, if you were there, to get your clovers and keep checking #events and sorts on our discord for updates and news that comes along! Keep marching, and get some sleep if your in the US division! Now to pics!
HAHAHAHAHA
TIP THE ICEBERG W/ OUR STACHES!
Do we? (>_>)

[UK/US] Alpha vs Echo Tournament

Hey ACP!

Today we had an amazing Alpha vs Echo Tournament! Made up of 3 rounds 
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Round 1: Branch Battle

Round 2: Sled Racing Tournament 
Round 3: Connect 4 Tournament
Now On To The Results…


Battle
15-minute 3 room change battle, 1 Point per 5 minute room.
lead By Zelly and Max it was close but with a few extra troops and holding tactics better Echo wins 2-1

Sled Racing
rules: Alpha and Echo faced off in a Sled Racing Tournament. Each team sent 4 representatives to play. The winner of each 1v1 earned 1 points for their team. With a 3-2 Victory Alpha wins this round
Connect 4
rules: Alpha and Echo faced off in a Connect 4 Tournament. Each team sent 4 representatives to play. The winner of each 1v1 earned 1 point for their team. With a 3-1 Victory Alpha wins this round
Now you ask Zelly how do we know who won well let me tell you Round 1: Echo= 2 points 
               Alpha = 1 point

Round 2: Echo= 2 points
                  Alpha = 3 points

Round 3: Echo=1 point
                     Alpha= 3 points 

In Total
Echo= 5 points
Alpha= 7 points


ALPHA WINS


[US] PENGUIN PLAY AWARDS EVENT

Hey ACP!
Today we logged on to Blizzard CPR for our Penguin play awards event! We waddled around the Town, Plaza and even went on the limo! Thanks to everyone who came!
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General 

In Response to the Recent "ACP Exposé"

Addressed to the entire CPR community.


This post addresses the recent “ACP Exposé”.


Edit: There seems to be some blogger editing issues –
Please feel free to read the full response on Google Docs instead:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ap62VD3-YMBIX86Ii8bAagsxW-tUCVewAbUhy2SkFeE/edit?usp=sharing

We would like to preface this post with a warning to the community – This could happen to anyone. Most, if not all army discords use bots. ACP is conducting our own investigation that we assure everyone we are taking extremely seriously – there is a possibility though that these weren’t leaked but were indeed “hacked” through the use of bot tokens. Please take the necessary precautions to secure your chats – such as ensuring your discord accounts are safe and making sure the bots invited can be trusted.


I would also like to address the ACP community – online safety is of our #1 concern. Staff chats were leaked, which is not a reason for alarm. No personal DMs or data was breached in the process. ACP will continue making sure the community and discord is safe for all to enjoy.


Now moving on to address the core contents of the exposé.


Part 1: CPAM


The core allegations made against ACP was “size inflation” and “influence over CPAM.


1) Size inflation – all armies inflate their sizes. I don’t want to call out any other armies as I’m sure the
entire community knows it’s happening. Especially with the rogue event trend, there isn’t always a clear
distinction between rogue and actual troops. I try my best to make sure we have a countable max –
any penguin doing the emote + penguins wearing the uniform are counted in our maxes. Screenshots
from a month ago, some from March 1st were taken. CPAM has worked hard to ensure the TT is fair
for everyone, but my apologies if some of our sizes claimed were ‘inflated’.


2) Influence over CPAM – What happened was that in the previous week’s CPAM TT, CPAM CEO Ayan
recounted all of ACP’s pictures, giving us a much lower max, without recounting any of RPF and HF’s. 



This was of course brought up in HCom, in which we thought it was unfair that ACP’s were being
recounted and RPF’s weren’t. In addition, we just had a battle with the PZF, in which we believed
we were (unfairly) awarded 2 tactic points, tying with the PZF despite having better tactics and
formations. (Full post: https://www.thearmyofcp.com/2020/04/acp-vs-pzf-battle-in-review_2.html)


Thus, higher command began a discussion about the CPAM bias situation – 2funky3 put it best in
one of the screenshots:



As ACP were being targeted for the “recounting” of our pictures, and due to the fact we felt the tactic
points were poorly given, we felt that CPAM held bias against us. The comments on “RPF would get
away with it” was in reference to the fact that RPF pictures were not recounted but ACP ones were.


In response to the allegations against myself and my involvement with CPAM – I was involved in the
formation and inauguration of CPAM. My statement was in regards to helping them set up in a way
that resembled CPAC, especially in the regard of posting. 


Below are 2 CPAM forming groups I was a part of:


I helped extensively in setting up the TT formula:


Mchappy put it best:


Perhaps what I expressed was put in not the most eloquent manner – but then again, I didn’t expect my
HCom chat to be leaked – all I wanted to do was, to a great extent, bring what I learnt from SMAC/CPAC into CPAM and model CPAM after something that has proved to be successful.


(I want to note here that I have since then – again these screenshots were from almost a month ago
– talked to Ayan and he has taken efforts to make the TT fairer for all.)


Part 2: RPF


  1. Trash-talking RPF: We were recently part of CPAM’s Premier League tournament, and our greatest opponents were the RPF. All the “**** RPF” sentiments were part of that – trash-talking or whatnot is quite common – and to hype everything up, we trash-talked the enemy. I’m sure similar sentiments against ACP have occured in RPF chats; I’m sure the rest of the community can sympathize when I say – trashing the enemy is not uncommon when a battle is approaching.


  1. ACP is proud to bring all troops to battle: I think this speaks volumes to what kind of army ACP is. We are proud to bring our entire army to every battle – RPF brought their staff team vs. smaller armies, but ACP’s philosophy was that we should respect the smaller armies and bring our entire force. (RPF has elaborated on their philosophy to me – and I can respect their reasoning). If PZF forfeited, ACP would automatically win, with 3 tactic points – however, we still urged PZF to come because we want to fight the tournament honorably. ACP doesn’t wish for wins to be handed to us. We could have easily taken the auto-win and full tactic points – but instead, we urged Retro to come on, and ended with 2 tactic points instead. (It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Max was joking about the server thing.)


(No servers were offered for them to show up, in case this wasn’t already evident)


Pre-battle tensions and trash-talking is common, regardless of whether it is a tournament or a war. RPF has supported ACP in the earliest days of its revival, even coming to our opening event to show support. We are far from enemies. There is a difference between being enemies, and friendly trash-talking in staff chats, during pre-tournament periods.


Part 3: HF


I want to say that the entire drama surrounding this has been solved. A lot of ACP troops, including mods and hcom suddenly approached me that they had been DM-ed HF invites. I immediately began talking to Moon and Tistle, and the situation was sorted out eventually.



Whilst not everything said was fair to HF – understand that recruiting is hard, and when you feel like you recruit just so someone from another army can DM them and recruit them – that’s annoying, to say the least. That is perhaps where the majority of the mod frustration came from – and you can see from the screenshots I tried my best to appease both sides to solve the situation.


Part 4: Trash-talking taken too far


Where does one draw the line between trash-talking, and what is too far? I would like to point out that, whilst this doesn’t excuse the behavior, the moderator in question has been known to the community as a “troll” – he periodically comes on to talk about bowing down to the Syrian government.



However, that being said, I want to apologize on behalf of my staff team for comments that may have gone over the line, especially ones about murder, that may have offended anyone. Moving forward,| we will do our best to navigate the fine line between “lets kill them in battle” and more extreme comments. Whilst all of this occured in staff chats and definitely not main to prevent fostering of public negative sentiments, be confident this will be addressed by the ACP higher command to ensure that comments made are still appropriate.


Final Thoughts


Whilst I personally feel like there was not much to “expose” about ACP, I do realize that many of the
screenshots look incriminating. I would be happy to discuss any of the above with anyone who is
interested in knowing more about the situation. 


In addition – we have no qualms with CPAM, nor is anyone in ACP trying to “influence” CPAM.
One of the reasons we recently went independent was to move away from the drama of the
community as well as the tournament “hostility” built against our opponents. This is something
that was already set in motion by our higher command in hopes to foster a more positive,
ACP-centered community.


I would like to publicly, once again, apologize on behalf of the ACP and our staff team for
comments made and sincerely hopes that the public takes time to read and understand our
side of the story. I welcome any DMs regarding the situation.

Signed,

CSY

[VICTORY] War with Gigi Hadid Army is Over!

Addressed to the Army of Club Penguin.
The war with GHA is officially over. They no longer threaten our territory.

On 22nd of April, 2020, GHA leader Tymatt threatened our birth and capital server, Mammoth. Albeit the Army of Club Penguin declaring independence, in the spirit of defending freedom, and preserving justice, we valiantly took on the war threat, and activated our AUSIA force to log on to defend our nation.
Decimating the GHA with our AUS force, GHA has officially backed down, making ACP once again the rightful owners of Mammoth.
ACP has officially become the victors of this war, with a final war score of 1-0-0.

The war with GHA may have been short – but this shows that ACP is truly an army that never sleeps. With people from all walks of the world coming together, we will defend our nation, US, UK or AUSIA.

ACP vs. GHA (they forfeited this room)
Henceforth, this war shall be known as “The One Day AUSIA War”, where our AUS force finally got a chance to shine. 
March On!

CSY
ACP Leader

[AUS] Defense of Mammoth – Success!

Hey ACP!

Following the threats against our birth and capital server Mammoth, ACP activated our AUS division to defend against the Gigi Hadid Army of CP. Bella ha-DID it better, and maxing 30, we successfully defended Mammoth from intruders!

We began in the Limo, to check out the party. Rooms were set by GHACP – Town, Stadium, then Cove. Obliterating them in town, they were nowhere to be seen in Stadium – and just as our troops were thinking of logging off, they resurfaced in the Cove – luckily, we were ready for this and continued fighting!

ACP NEVER SLEEPS, GOOD JOB AUSIA!
CSY
ACP Leader

[IMPORTANT] ACP Enters War (?) With Gigi Hadid Army of CP

Addressed to the Gigi Hadid ACP.
The Army of Club Penguin officially accepts your challenge.

It has been brought to our attention that, the Gigi Hadid ACP (your name contains ACP <3) is now threatening our birth and capital server, Mammoth. Despite the fact that our recent declaration of independence renders the invasion invalid, as we have already set the terms to foreign nations that we will not further engage in conflicts regarding territory, ACP will defend any threat to our capital and birth server, Mammoth, until the end.
Rules of the Invasion:
– No allies
– No multilogging
Any Gigi Hadid Army of Club Penguin troops found to have violated the above rules will automatically forfeit the invasion, and all future invasions against the ACP will be rendered invalid.
See you on the battlefield!
[AUSIA] Defense of Mammoth – 24th April, 2020
Times: 3am EST / 8am UK / 7am GMT / 2am CST / 1am MST / 12am PST / 5pm AEST / 4pm JST / 12:30pm IST
CSY
ACP Leader

We will once again be the rightful owners of Mammoth