Welcome to This Day In History, the column that connects today with the past by reviewing notable events that occurred on this date in previous years. Nine years ago, Club Penguin Armies Central would release a special report that directly impacted the very structure of the Army of Club Penguin.
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On November 12, 2015, Club Penguin Army Central Executive Producer Zing King To released a special report conducting a multilogging investigation on the Army of Club Penguin. These claims started to brew under the controversial leadership of Trader, after multiple private High-Command meetings and conversations were leaked.
ACP 2ic Maxy777 discusses with Trader about multilogging
Back then, people would utilize guest accounts in Xat (what we call ‘alt accounts’ in Discord nowadays) in an attempt to avoid allegations being pointed back at them. Thus, Maxy and Trader continued their conversation, debating whether it would be wrong or not to multilog and whether CPAC and even ACP guardians would find out. Later, Trader informed Maxy that he would not be engaging in this action alone – ACP’s temporary leader Max43810, and himself would also be partaking in it.
After CPAC received this information, the community started questioning ACP’s multilogging attempts, and a formal investigation began. Armies like the Special Weapons and Tactics and the Water Vikings started to closely watch the Clovers’ chat and events. Here is the gathered evidence.
Typically, army chats would have a higher amount of people online than in its events. This is only logical to conclude, as not everyone in a chat would be in attendance of said event. However, a certain ACP event had a maximum size of 28 troops online, while only 26 accounts were online in their chat. One could argue that the extra two troops were rogues. Nonetheless, bearing in mind the fact that of the 26 people in the chat some could be visitors or even inactive at that moment, this was extremely unlikely.
Furthermore, to test the hypothesis of Max multilogging for the army, a plan was developed. There was a suspicion that five Xat guest accounts always came online whenever Max did as well. Due to the way the platform ran, if two accounts or more share the same IP address, and one account gets banned so do all other accounts connected to that IP. Therefore, ACP 2ic Ryan gave owner permissions to one of the investigators in ACP’s Xat. That way, one of the guest accounts was banned. As expected, Max and the other four accounts simultaneously went offline.
Additionally, more investigations took place. Some Water Vikings troops alongside fellow community members discovered that all accounts suspected to be multilogs had a common pattern. Their passwords matched their usernames without numbers. Moreover, these accounts reportedly only showed up in events where Trader was online. Here is what the CPAC report says:
The passwords of some of the above counts were tested under the rule that the numbers should be removed – (with a few exceptions) and here is what was found:
Baker1 – Baker < pass
Lolly17 – Lolly < pass
Soccer853 – Soccer < pass
Rookie12345 – Rookie < pass
Butterfree – Pokemon < pass
Ski0842 – Skiski < pass
Upon learning that, CPAC went on to confront Trader about the matter. However, the organization did not receive the confession or the answer they expected. Instead, Trader banned their Executive Producer from ACP.
On November 19, after the report became public, Trader released a statement of his. In it, he announced that he would be formally stepping down from ACP’s leadership. However, he did not admit to the multilogging accusations, rather affirming he was retiring due to lack of proper time to lead.
I love everybody in Army of Club Penguin and everybody who supported me while I was leading. I know there are many people who didn’t support the Army of Club Penguin, don’t listen to those people, everybody in the Army of Club Penguin are great people and are legendary to me. I had a great time leading and I wish I could of gone longer and done better during my time. I tried my hardest and did whatever I could for you guys and I will still be helping out whenever I am able and needed. I have become really busy and almost have no time to lead, leaving was very hard for me to do because everybody in this army is so great and i’m sorry I have to leave.
After Trader’s departure, Max also saw an unfortunate fate: he would be removed from his position of 2ic.
November 19 nine years ago was undoubtedly eventful. It showcases that multilogging has always been a frowned-upon practice in CPA. Not only that, it is recognized as the utmost cheating technique an army could use to game the system. Do you think ACP really engaged in this practice? Was CPAC fair in its approach? What are YOUR thoughts?
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Army Legend. Former Water Ninjas leader. Founder and Former Leader of the Elite Guardians of Club Penguin. Current Club Penguin Armies Editor-in-Chief.