GRILL

You are the man, Craig - this is HUGE news.

I'm more on the side of Maxis getting shot vs. Maxis shooting himself. That being said, if Maxis had the forethought to essentially digitize himself into the Griffen station computer system - he might have had the plan all along to ditch his physical body. It seems pretty clear that he knew Richtofen was up to something, but why couldn't he have just digitized himself AND kept his physical body - after all, he couldn't have gone through with his full plan if not for the steps taken by physical beings. I'm kind of playing devils advocate, but at the same time I can see both angles truly. I know @ will probably want to weigh in on this subject.

@MegaAfroMan I think @ was referring to the "good luck with that" part, as it's openly dismissive and pretty much the opposite of "support". No one should be telling anyone to click on ads, as it's in poor taste - and I don't think chop meant it like that.

I'm starting to get the feeling that you are a skimmer. I've already explained this. Even if you have it on full version, WYSIWYG does not show up for mobile (anymore). I can clarify this being on a tablet right now lol.

If you click on the link he provided, and look at the first section "The Basics" - how to change text color is right there.

Yeah solo is not my cup of tea. I pretty much got all of them in one try, though - so it was worth it. Upgrade your pistols until you have dual pistols. Don't pick up a primary. If you are only using pistols, the chance that you will get intel from a searchable box goes up dramatically. As soon as you pick up a primary, that will fill many of the boxes with weapon attachments. Go as far as you can with just the dual pistols. I believe there is one random intel per area: one in the starting room, one in the crane room, one above the crane room and one in the gas room.

Looks like we will go back to white for the regular user color, seems like it's what the majority thinks. I agree it will make the pages look less "busy", but I do love that BO2 orange.

It's not the first zombie preparedness campaign the CDC has supported: http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm ;)

Title says it all. Let's see how many escapes we all have, for each map! I'll get the ball rolling: l GRILL l Point of Contact: 5 escapes (3 platinum) Nightfall: 47 escapes (9 platinum) Mayday: 45 escapes (20 platinum)

I would say that the topic of the Vrill ya and their possible influence definitely belongs in here. The elongated skull in shangri-la suggests that the vrill ya may have been present, along with the other clues from other maps(I.e. Vrill device, golden rod, pictures of golden rod in Der Riese). It's also not to be forgotten that the nazis were obsessed with the concept of the vrill ya/vrill energy, they even had a "Vrill society". They also had a female only sect called the "Vrillika" (spelling?) who would grow their hair to the floor because they thought they could communicate with the inner earth dwelling beings (aka Vrill ya). The shangri la on Mars theory was also one of the greats. Was actually one of the reasons I joined this site, so I could weigh in. Nice list overall Smith, although I know some of it is based from the last forum you were on ;)

You need to play it on solo, search everything. Took me a long time to get all of them as well, in Mayday.

Glad you all like it! I'm just happy to see zombies/3arc content on top again (no offense IW/Ghosts ) @ feel free to just "report" any and all threads that need to be moved (just include a brief suggestion as to where you'd like it moved/think it should be moved), that way all staff will get a notification. A "report" isn't always a bad thing ;)

Fair enough @ETEl2NAL407 I just can't help but take it personally, because I used to talk to @Caddyman a lot. Just makes me unhappy that this is what he comes back to, after so long. It's like he didn't see our struggle, or anything - he just wants to pick apart what we are doing to survive. I agree with a vast amount of his points, but it just feels like he didn't even read all the posts we've made prior to his.

@Caddyman the amount of assumptions you make literally makes me white knuckled angry. You don't know the full story, you are looking from the outside in. We were wrongly informed that it was a good decision, and after the person that wrongly informed us of this switched it over - they dissapeared for 6 months. Then when we finally were able to oust them from staff and get all the information - we tried to change the plan, only to realize that we needed to clear space. Since then the staff had been paying out of their own pockets for the exorbitant bill. It's a goddamn joke, to be honest, that we are paying this much. I agree with you there - but lashing out at the staff that we are "pawning it off" on the users, making it seem like this is a cash grab - it's frankly insulting, and I never expected it to come from such a good guy as yourself. I don't know what happened to make you so bitter against us, but it makes me sad.

@Caddyman it's a long story, but basically the server bill was switched last spring because we had so much new content/traffic from BO2. It was changed by a woman named Lissa, who actually jumped the gun in doing so, and she has been since ousted from staff (due to issues with non-communication). The ads are not a "cash grab", as you so wrongly assumed. Seriously man? We are just trying it out, and seeing if it's worth it - it's never been done before. Did you even read my posts in this thread? I was very candid when I said "we will try it and see if the revenue is worth it, or see if the revenue is too minimal to give up the quality of life that comes with being ad free." Kind of insulted that after so long of you not posting anything, this is what you post: throw your knowledge around, yet you don't offer any solutions - and then you make a mildly insulting comment about this being a cash grab and how you "liked" CODZ better at one time. It's not a cash grab, we are just trying every option. If it isn't worth it, then it isn't worth it - but here you are hating on us for "trying something new". I can handle constructive criticism, but that's not what you are giving. Would you rather more downtime? We are clearing the data, and should have the server bill down from $130 to $60 very soon. As well, whenever we hit our monthly goal via donations and ad revenue, we will take down the ads until the first of the following month. C'mon Caddy, don't be like that.

@GameChanger I wouldn't call it contradicting what he swore against. If it was the same conditions regarding size/server bill then it would be that, but now it's just being realistic to survive. Carbon has stepped away from CODZ and has left us to figure out how to make it work. Ads have never been tried before, so we'd like to give it a try. We'll build up some statistics on how much we make a month from them, and then determine if it's a worthwhile investment - or if the ad revenue is too minimal to give up for the "quality of life" that comes with having CODZ be ad free. We have to try. Regarding the Adblock message, thank you for the input and I totally respect where you are coming from. Just so everyone can see, this is what @GameChanger is referring to: How do you all think it should be worded? I agree that with the whole honey vs. vinegar argument, and I think we could solve it simply just by rewording it. I'd truly hope that all of us would choose "whitelisting CODZ" over "leaving CODZ" though, regardless.

@Matuzz Dan has stepped back from CODZ, and left it to us to keep it alive. He is the founder, and will always be the founder. As I said in my post, times have changed - our data size is gigantic and that equals a higher server bill cost, higher then it's ever been. Would you rather not have the site? Do you realize the server bill falls to the staff every month, if there are no donations? The staff are comprised of students, adults, and parents. We work, we study, we deal with life, we deal with our own financial situations, we deal with our kids - and yet we do our staff job's on CODZ for free. Actually, now it's not for free - now we are literally paying to be staff. And no, we won't lock this thread. I want to hear the good and the bad, so I can combat it with the good and the bad. I know you were just voicing your opinion and I respect that very much. Any and all questions and concerns must be addressed, so keep them coming please.

Absolutely. On top of that, once we get the data reduced - our server bill will be much more affordable.

Thanks for making this thread, Craig - and for implementing the ads that we all knew would inevitably have to come. When carbon originally started this site, he wanted it to be ad free. Not many forums can claim to thrive so well on solely donations, CODZ is a special place with a fantastic community. It grew from a humble forum to what it is today: an institute in Call of Duty: Zombies knowledge & know-how. Things are different now, we have a lot of information on this site - which takes up a lot of space - and we can't run on donations alone, although they still are the lifeblood of CODZ. Our server bill is $130 a month, and to get it reduced we basically have to clean out a bunch of space. Until then, we are stuck with this bill - and we will experience downtime if it is not paid. The donation trancker is there so we can all see how CODZ is faring (I'd like to mention that the donation tracker was an add on that we recently acquired, for which Craig paid money out of his pocket for - so thanks Craig/HellsWarrrior for getting us the donation tracker). We will do our best to keep you all filled in on how the ads are doing $$$-wise.

@DeathBringerZen I got it from a thread on the BO2 reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/blackops2/comments/25m3xq/new_update/ That's good to hear about the staffs though!