CPNext

CPNext is a new technology currently being experimented on by the Club Penguin Team. It is currently only being used on the My Penguin mobile application, but soon, it will be expanded to everywhere on Club Penguin.

CPNext works completely differently when it comes to sharding and grouping. It doesn't have the concept of Servers anymore. It will automatically group you with other Penguins and every room is in effect a shard. That way, if the game needs 1000 versions of the Town and only 1 version of the Underground Lake, it can have only as many as it needs at any one time of those rooms. And theoretically those rooms will never be empty because the team only spins up as many as there is demand for, so the CP world should feel a lot more busy. The team also have the ability to dial it up and down to make it less busy in different rooms if they need to. Club Penguin could conceptually have an unlimited number of rooms for penguins to explore and those rooms are only revealed over time as penguins discover them. Missions like Operation: Hot Sauce that happen in world only instead of being temporary like parties, penguins can play through them any time they want, and the team groups penguins with other EPF agents who want to play at the same time.

The new tech will most likely be used in the next year.