Rockhopper Tracker!
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Rockhopper Main guide:
Update: Rockhopper Tracker - Current Status of Rockhopper below:
(This tracker is inaccurate at the moment)
Notice: Some people believe that the site ClubPenguinHQ.com can get all of your personal information including IP and other personally identifiable information. Please use caution if you want to go on that site. Otherwise, just lookat the tracker picture or read my guide below.
Alright, finding Rockhopper. That’s something just about every penguin out there wants to do (If they haven’t found him already). You can talk to him and you can get a free background!
For one thing, Rockhopper is Club Penguin’s account, he can be a bot or a real person (depending on the time of day). So that means he can be on any server, in any place he wants to be. However, sometimes he likes to go on these servers a lot (that doesn’t mean you can’t find him in other servers): Mammoth, Frozen, Mittens, Parka, and any highly populated Servers (the ones on the left column of the first page of the U.S. servers list, for example). But nowadays, he can be on any server!
Now, finding him is kinda tough, but it can be done. Two helpful factors are: that he’s slightly larger than the average penguin (he’s bigger, thus easier to spot if you’re in the same room as him). And there’s always a flood of penguins around him (they’re usually all red). And one surefire way of knowing he’s in a room is that you can’t get into the room because its full and there’s hundreds of penguins clobbering to get into the room. Also, he moves around Club Penguin every so often if he’s on the Server. For example, he might appear in the Ship Hold, then move to the Beach, then the Town, then the Iceberg, etc. But sometimes he stays for a very short time in one or two rooms and switches servers.
And he’s most likely to be in the Dock, the Night Club, the Iceberg, the Cove, and (this is the one he’s most on) his ship, The Migrator (Check the Ship Hold!). Basically, rooms that have a large penguin capacity, unlike the Mountain Top which can only hold around 20+ penguins before its full.
As for times he’s on, he’s most usually on during peak hours (times when everyone’s on), or he can also be on during random times of the day and night when there’s a moderate amount of people or no people at all.
Methods of finding him
First, you gotta check if he’s online or not. Type in his username in the log in screen and type in a random password (over four digits long). It will say he’s banned if he’s offline. It will say ‘Incorrect password’ if he’s online. If he’s offline, stop and try again later.
One very tedious and dull way to find him is to check if he’s on, and then check all the servers I mentioned in all the places I mentioned. I suggest start by checking servers with three dots or more (it doesn’t have to be only U.S. Servers, check all nations). And if you still don’t find him check all the other servers with two or less dots and the places on those. And if you still don’t find him, He probably logged off while you were checking. And on top of that, this might not work because he can change servers any time he wants to (but he usually changes every 10-25 minutes).
A somewhat effective way is to check servers that are not usually filled up but is oddly full or close to full for some reason, and go look on there. I’ve actually gotten this to work before.
Another way is going on the most popular servers in the most popular places and just wait for news of him. It could take a few minutes or a few hours (ugh, you should try another method if it takes that long), but someone just might shout “RH is on Mittens!” or “He’s on Mammoth!” or “Rockhopper’s on Tundra! WOOT!”. If they do, FIRST check to make sure they’re not on the server you’re are right now. If you are, don’t log out, they’re probably trying to trick you, Rockhopper might just be in that server on the Ship Hold. Try double checking to make sure he’s not in any of the rooms on that Server, then rush on to that server before it fills up and rush to the ship hold (he’s most likely here) before that fills up as well. This has worked a few times for me. And sometimes he appears first on the Iceberg so check there.
Once you find him
Once you find him, its awesome! There’s about two dozen penguins there asking him questions and HE ANSWERS THEM (with a pirate accent). Also, you get a free Rockhopper autographed background if you try buddying him (You can’t buddy him….but you can put him on your ignore list if you want), you can go to his “home” (his ship, The Migrator is his home), and you can send him postcards and I hear he sometimes sends one back! And you can follow him around when he walks around Club Penguin.
Some other tips if you’ve read the guide and you still have trouble finding him (Please actually try looking after you’ve read the guide above), these mini-guides have pictures of Rockhopper and a few more tips but they’re a bit outdated:
http://watex.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/rockhopper-when-and-where-is-he-on/
http://watex.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/updated-some-stuff/
http://watex.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/rockhopper-and-all-his-excitement/
http://watex.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/rockhopper-sighted/
Remember, Rockhopper’s not always on Club Penguin.
More pictures from Watex:
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