Army of Club Penguin

Boomer’s Final Battle:

RN thought they would prove how evil we are by invading during my retirement party (doesn’t that make them the evil ones 😐 ), so my final battle will be us defending Snow Fort from their “army”.

Snow Fort, Snow Forts

12 PST, 3 EST TODAY

P.S.~It would be a really awesome tribute to me if you brought your army to help us 😉

First, a few quick notes…

The Join page has been updated, so if you commented on the Join page, you now have a rank (it may take a little while to find it however).  If you only commented on the Active Post, as some of you did, you need to go to the Join Page if you want to join.  If you just joined recently, please click HERE and comment to say you are active.  In addition, if you still have not commented to make sure you do not lose your rank, you really need to do it soon.  Click HERE for the Active Soldiers post.  We are almost at 500 soldiers 😀 .

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On to what this post is about, I will be having a Farewell Party for my retirement this Saturday.  Everyone is welcome, not just ACP (but especially ACP 😉 ).  If you can’t make it, that’s okay, you’ll probably see me a few more times before I retire (and probably some after that).  Here is the info:

When: Saturday, May 30, 2009

Where: Snow Globe Lighthouse (and Beacon if necessary)

Why: Boomer 20’s Farewell Party

Who: Everyone is invited

Times:

11:00 am PST

12:00 pm MST

1:00 pm CST

2:00 pm EST

7:00 pm U.K.

Hope to see you there! 😉

~Boomer

Saint: ARG! I can’t make the party on Saturday. My family is leaving Saturday to Michigan because we still have our old house up there and we rent it out to people, but our renters moved out and yeahh… I barely got through with the excuse of “I can’t miss school on Monday because we do a lot of stuff at the end of the year” so I WILL be back Monday (the 1st).  I’m so sorry guys, maybe on friday (before i have to go to activity night for 8th grade) we can do a recruiting party 😀 !

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Flappy I need the camo print you used for the chat background. Just give me the camo print,  not with pictures or writing please. Email it to me if I’m not on chat: acp.shab@gmail.com

Shab: SHABOOMBOOM IS FINALLY ON MY EMAIL!!! (Boomer will know what I’m talking about)

Aber: Hey everyone! I am back from my 1 1/2 week vacation!

Boomer: I ran out of time today (and I’ll be busy tonight), but I will add everyone waiting for a rank tomorrow.  Don’t worry, you will be added, and sorry for the delay.

Time for a progress check, which includes some very good news.  First, our hits have been a bit lower than last month (ok maybe that’s not good news), but last month we had a lot of wars to bring in hits.  However, we surpassed 100,000 hits in a month for the 4th straight month (we almost had 5 months, but the first one was about 200 hits short).  Another reason they may be down is that, as the school year starts to end, people get busier, and we get fewer hits.  This usually changes during the summer when everyone is home.

Hits don’t make an army however, and despite the lower number of hits, we have seen what appears to be an increase of troops at battles, including near 80 at our last one.  In addition to that, I was happily proven wrong by our Active Soldiers post.  I had estimated we had about 400-450 active soldiers, and the list is steadily increasing up past 475.  If you still need to comment, make sure you do that.  Don’t worry about it being late, you need to do it to keep your rank.  Click HERE to do so.

Some not so great news if you missed it, I will be retiring on June 1st, but I will be visiting, so don’t get too despressed.  Just so I can clear it up, I do not want to retire (at least not yet), but as I said in the previous post, sometimes you just have to listen to those whose opinions matter more than your own.  In other words, my parents…

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Now for some stuff that I hope we can get done soon:

• Clean out the ranks of inactive soldiers
• Promo Day
• Brigades will probably be cleared out completely, so you can register for a Branch (Navy, Air Force, Marines, or whatever else we may name them).
• Reduce our servers
• Work on the ACP YouTube Channel
• More recruiting and practices

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Lastly, I just thought I’d show a few more funny search terms that linked to the ACP site:

1. Hey cool 😀
2. Idk, but I don’t think we eliminated them… 😕
3. Am I a main penguin?
4. You bet I rock that 8)
5. Oh, what now?? 😐

~Boomer

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Sorry! I didn’t know there was one already, well, whatever XD

P.S. Wow i haven’t posted in quit some time! XD

P.S.S When ever you can, boomer, pc me on chat!

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Noob Army Attacking Us: http://rebelnationcp.wordpress.com/

Edit: If you have not yet commented on the Active Post to make sure you don’t lose your rank, make sure to do that HERE.

Updated: Video added

I had been thinking about adding a sort of motto, a statement for why ACP is here, for a few months now.  As I see my time running out, I will be doing everything I can to make ACP the best it can be.  If you haven’t heard yet, I will be retiring in under a week.  I honestly do not believe my time is up, but sometimes you just have to listen to those whose opinions matter more than your own…

These lyrics are some of my favorites, and I feel it matches our purpose well.  Please pay close attention to the message.  Mere words never meant so much as these did to me.  It is a message that I have always tried to stand by both as a soldier and as a leader.  I hope you do too.

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is our quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And we know if we’ll only be true
To this glorious quest
That our hearts will lie peaceful and calm
When we’re laid to our rest

And the world will be better for this
That one army, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with its last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

See if you can tell me what that is from in a comment.  Once someone has figured it out, I’ll post a video.

The first one to get it right was Motor20.  Congrats!  Here is the video.  First, a bit of background…

This song was written for a play called “Man of La Mancha.”  It is a story about an old man named Don Quixote, who is working to become a knight.  He acts very noble and couragous, but because of his age and the way he acts, he gets made fun of.  He is trying to get a woman whom he calls “Dulcinea”, meaning something like “sweet lady”, to be his lady (every knight needs a lady).  She thinks he is crazy too, but he is persistent.  He treats her like a lady when she is in fact a poor maid.  She asks him why he does such ridiculous things, and his response is this song.  From that point on, he seems to have won her over.  At the end of the play, he lays dying, and is unable to remember anything about being a knight or his friendships with his sidekick Sancho and with Dulcinea.  Sancho is trying to get him to remember, but Don Quixote appears to be dying.  Dulcinea arrives and sings him the same song he sang to her.  He begins to remember, and he, Sancho, and Dulcinea sing together.  Suddenly, Don Quixote dies.  The play has a happy ending despite his death, as Don Quixote died happily, remembering his quest and all that he had done.  Later, the townspeople sing the same song to mourn his passing.  It is considered one of the most moving songs of all time.  All the comments are from people saying they were crying while watching it, and I have to admit I have teared up a bit…

~Boomer

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I’ll start by saying I had a blast with the Practice Session today!  It went better than expected for sure, especially after only 35 soldiers showed up on time (that’s my bad…), and half the people came on chat saying “there was a practice battle?”  Next time I’ll give you more advanced notice and not post it under other posts 😐 .  It ended up being really good though, so thanks to those who made it.  Here are the pics:

Five minutes beforehand, we only had 35-40 soldiers, so I was getting kinda worried…

Now 2 minutes beforehand, we were losing soldiers (only 34).

We got the practice started by splitting into 2 lines.

The lines charged simultaneously and switched sides while spam charging the center.

For this charge, we split into 2 lines again, but the two halves of each line charged the opposite side, making an “X” while they charged (well that’s how it was supposed to look…).

I made a note at the top of the active post in case people hadn’t noticed the post below it, so more soldiers began showing up.  Here we formed one single line along the bottom (35-40 soldiers).

We did another “X” charge (this was the end result…everyone charged the way I went 😐 ).

We started making another line, but this time we sent some soldiers to the Town, so we could make a line across both rooms.

I went to the Town to take a pic of the line there (30-35 soldiers).

When I went back to the Snow Forts, our late-arrivals had finally gotten on the server, which was quite a surprise considering how many troops we gained in a matter of minutes 😀 .  In the Snow Forts, we had 45 soldiers, combined with the 35 or so in the Town, we got up to 80 soldiers!  Which made me much happier than the 35 we started with 😐 .  I think I’ll schedule it better next time 😆 .

We moved to the Dock so we could get everyone in one room (although it was full almost immediately).  We had about 65 in the room, and 10-20 still in the Town.  This was a very impressive circle because we formed it in about 10 seconds (no joke).  If you can make a circle with 65 people that fast, your opponent has no chance to get out of the way… 😈 😆

We marched our way to the Migrator.

We instantly took over the Migrator and decorated it with green colors to better suit us 😆 .  We squeezed about 60 soldiers in there.  After that, I had to go, but we did some recruiting.

Thank you to everyone who came and made it such a great practice!

Comment if you made it!

~Boomer

Ok, party stuff…

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Hey guys, now that we are finally in a time a peace once again, it’s time to work on some stuff that needed some practice during our wars.  I have scheduled a practice session for this, and the times are below:

When: Saturday, May 23, 2009

Where: Snow Fort, Snow Forts

Times:

2:00 pm PST

3:00 pm MST

4:00 pm CST

5:00 pm EST

10:00 pm U.K.

Comment if you can make it!

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On to some other stuff, I wanted to comment on a post Kyle wrote because parts of it were fairly offensive to me (and to others I’m sure)…

Kyle writes…

“Is keeping your rank in ACP really a big deal? Is joining ACP a big deal? Think about this: The only people that ever have been leader, have been exceptionally close friends with Oagalthorp. Now, in my opinion, this is pretty messed up.”

I’m pretty sure Kg didn’t really know Oagal when he became leader.  I’m pretty sure Oagal hated Shab (he essentially removed him from power).  Oagal never answered my pcs until I became Co-Leader.  By that definition of “exceptionally close friends”, I’d say I’m exceptionally close friends with every single person I’ve ever met 😐

Next, he writes…

“But to get back to my main point, half of the people in ACP are completely meaningless to the leaders of ACP.”

Hmm…meaningless…I guess that’s why we have two promo days a month even though it takes me 2 days (and nights) just to go through all the names.  I guess that’s why I schedule practice battles weekly so every has something to do (cough).  No, I don’t care about my soldiers at all 🙄 .  I love all my soldiers, and if a leader doesn’t, they will either be a very poor leader, or they will probably retire.  Ask a teacher, “why do you teach?”  The response will surely be something along the lines of “because I love the kids and I love the chance to give them a good education.”  Why do I lead ACP?  Because I love the soldiers and the chance for everyone to have a good time.  Isn’t fun the reason we are here?  Maybe if you thought more about your soldiers, more of them would still be around…

This one is kind of interesting…

“Did I ever mention the “Cycle of ACP”? ACP looks big on Club Penguin, so they get more recruits. Then ACP looks bigger. And they just keep getting recruits.”

I’m pretty sure that is how you are supposed to do it…you recruit some soldiers, and you get bigger, you recruit more soldiers, you get bigger.  In other words, you recruit 5 people, they recruit another 5.  Now you have 10.  Those 10 recruit another 10.  Those 20 now recruit another 20.  Those 40 soldiers recruit another 40.  It’s no surprise that bigger armies grow faster because they get more recruits by being bigger.  That’s how ACP got bigger, it’s how the Nachos got bigger, it’s how any army works to get bigger.  If you think that is wrong, maybe that’s why you are losing soldiers.  You don’t get soldiers by insulting other armies until their soldiers join you, your best chance is always to recruit new people off Club Penguin.

Anyone else feel like this post is almost an insult to the Nachos (who are just as big as us)?  Aren’t they big enough to be criticized in a post too 😆 .  Kyle, if you want my opinion, since you always seem to make yours very well known, I would be more concerned with your army than you apparently are with ours 😐 .

~Boomer

How about a few more funny search terms?

1. Again? 😕
2. I feel so honored 😀
3. 😕
4. Tee hee…

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This is an active count.  If you want to stay in ACP, you must comment on this post, or you will be left out of the ranks when I clear them out of inactive soldiers in a week or so.  This is my way of knowing you are still active and loyal.

The only comments I should see are comments saying you are active, anything else will be deleted.  Comments should look like this, keep them simple:

Boomer 20, ACP Leader, Active

Note: Please include your current rank.

All other posts will be below this for the next week or so, so make sure to look there.

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Solraida: By the way soldiers, in the weeks to come I am going to try to hold mini practice battles between the brigades. The ranks of Lieutenant through Colonel will be tested in their ability to be an officer, the unexperienced and unworthy will either be demoted to a lower officer rank or to a low enlisted rank. This is an act to get us more reliable officers in the field.

Saint: I’m really sorry i havn’t been able to get to the battles this week, i had softball games. Today (Wednesday) the 8th grade had their class trip to Six Flags, I’m also graduating soon, so i might not be on as much as possible. I know for sure that i wont be on much on Saturday after 4 i think, because im going to a nerd party 8) . I hope ya can forgive me!

RFW surrendered to end the war yesterday, so congratulations ACP, UMA, and Golds!  We are victorious!  Now that the war is over, make sure to unban all RFW soldiers, and hopefully they will do the same.  As for the servers, we have returned Parka to ST, and Rocky Road and Sabertooth to RFW.  Great White will be split among our allies, so it will be jointly owned by ACP, UMA, and the Golds.  Great job everyone!

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Now for my revised Top 10 Armies (approximated strictly on size in battles):

1. ACP (Army of Club Penguin)
2. Nachos
3. WW (Watex Warriors)
4. IW (Ice Warriors)
5. RFW (Roman Fire Warriors)
6. Golds
7. UMA (Underground Mafias Army)
8. RPF (Rebel Penguin Federation)
9. ST (Shadow Troops)
10. BB (Black Bandits)

Please don’t be offended if you aren’t on the list or are lower than you think you deserve.  I can’t see every army on the battlefield, and these things change every week.  To RPF, the reason you are lower is just because I really have no idea how big you are anymore since you don’t go on CP much…

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Since we had an invasion scheduled last night that wasn’t going to happen, I just turned it into a party, so here’s a quick pic:

In addition to the war ending, we have something else to celebrate.  We recently passed 1,500,000 hits!!  The counter is off by 50,000 because WordPress is working on the Statistics stuff and it’s not right yet 😐 .  Anyway, this is a huge milestone for the site, and I believe we are the first army site to this number (I don’t honestly believe the RPF site has almost 1,800,000 considering they had 1,500,000 just over a month ago, and there’s no way they doubled our hits when they only have about 20 active soldiers…).  Since we had a party for 1,000,000 I think we should have another for 1,500,000, so I’ll post about that when I figure out when that will be.

~Boomer

For your enjoyment, some more funny search terms that linked to our site:

1. We’re so mature 😀
2. 😕
3. 😆
4. You better be 👿
5. Are we stealing hits from the military?

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Boomer’s Edit: The invasion planned has been cancelled.  Instead it will be a party!  Everyone is welcome (allies especially)!  It will be on Snow Globe in the Dance Club at 5 PST, 8 EST.  See you there!

Well, this was kind of sudden but I have recieved word from woton the RFW leader that he is pulling RFW out of the war and that they are refusing to participate in the war any longer. I do not know the other leader’s stances on this but I dont think it is right to invade them after they pull out of the war. The details are on http://fwarmy.com

Army Listings:
1. Acp/Nachos
2. ST/WW/Uma
3. RFW/Golds/IW
4. RPF
5. BB
6.?

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The invasion of Rocky Road was less than rocky to say the least.  I think RFW maxed out around 3 soldiers, and none were even there when it started.  Pringle knew the times posted by Woton were incorrect, but for some reason never posted the actual times, so expect that to be some sort of excuse…

As for the battle, like I said, it was pretty one-sided.  With our victory, ACP, UMA, and the Golds now own Rocky Road.  Here are the pics:

We started recruiting beforehand, and we had around 40 soldiers 30 minutes early.

I was trying to figure out why we were losing so many soldiers…

CP glitched up and the room was full, but only about half were visible.  Upon re-entering the room, we had quite a bit more soldiers.

Just before the battle started, we had just over 50 soldiers (not bad for a Monday).

Start of the battle, still no RFW…

Pringle, the RFW Leader, was the lone soldier for most of the battle.  He didn’t attack though, and he’s somewhere in there 😐

End of the battle, there were 55 ACP, 6 Golds, and 2 UMA.

We charged the Plaza for fun.

RFW’s excuse for choosing not to fight us… 😐

What a wonderful way to treat your soldiers… 😐

Overall, it was a great effort by all (except RFW), especially for a Monday…

Comment if you made it, especially since some of you may not show up in the pics 😐

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Here are the next two invasions (posted on Sunday)

Date: Tues May 19th
Server: Beanie
Time: 5:00 PST, 8:00 EST
Room: Snow Forts
Division: Alpha Brigade, Kappa Brigade, Sigma Brigade, All soldiers without Brigades, UMA

Date: Tues May 19th
Server: Big Foot
Time: 5:00 PST, 8:00 EST
Room: Snow Forts
Division: Delta Brigade, Echo Brigade, Gamma Brigade, Golds

Note: The invasions following these will again be at 2:00 pm PST.  This is (again) more than 24 hours in advance, so RFW make sure you know that…

Come early and be on chat so we can recruit and go over plans for the battle.  Hope to see you there!

~Boomer

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