Suggestions for future Versions

[MrZeropage]

With ibProArcade you don't have to pay anything to participate in Development and straightly put your ideas into the Project :)


Feel free to post any idea here in this thread, describe what you want, how it should work ect. and please no discussion only suggestions
That makes it more easy for me to sort through it, I later will edit the postings and mark things that got implemented ect.

[MrZeropage]

This is a list of feature that are going to be in future development:

[corn dog]

It would be pretty cool if it shows the games you have a high score in, in your profile.

ps: Where do you download games, I have been looking like crazy :P

[Stifmeister2]

I'm not sure if this bug fix made it to 2.5.6+ (cause I haven't upgraded yet), but
- "Leader of Leaderboard" updating automatically

I'm tired of doing this couple of times every day from ACP. Every time someone makes it to the top 10 it goes wrong..

[Zia]

Helo MrZeroPage..

It maybe miles long ..

1.Attack/challange system :
-User can attack user .User can challange user.

[Neo_obs]

Stifmeister2: that has been fixed in 2.5.6+

Zia: He is in the process of this and announced it will be out in 2.6.0+ (which should be the next version)

[MrZeropage]

Who said v2.6.0 is the next ? *lol*
Challenge is planned for next release, that's right ...

[Zia]

Stifmeister2: that has been fixed in 2.5.6+

Zia: He is in the process of this and announced it will be out in 2.6.0+ (which should be the next version)

I know bud, its a new thread opened for suggetion..so i wite it here again :)

:banana: ETA for 2.5.7+ pleaseeeeeeeee??

[MrZeropage]

same procedure as everytime - no ETA for any Release (I am not John ;))
I will start development of next version about next week :)

[Kungfu]

What else can you put in here!!! Maybe more ways to give points, for some reason my users are still getting thousands of points even though i set it so if they get highschool they only get 20 points. Not sure how the points are tallied up so i really dont know how to set the points up yet.

Oh actually there is one thing, well two.

One would be to stop some games from auto submitting the score. not sure if thats possible. If you can add a page with a button before submitting or something.

And some kind of bug where sometimes you get a score of -1 for some reason. Its when you exit the game early or just get 0 on the game the game submits the score.

[MrZeropage]

One would be to stop some games from auto submitting the score. not sure if thats possible. If you can add a page with a button before submitting or something.That depends on each Game itself, not the Arcade :)

[Kungfu]

That depends on each Game itself, not the Arcade :)
Yea i figured so.

[Zia]

same procedure as everytime - no ETA for any Release (I am not John ;))
I will start development of next version about next week :)

Thankx Man.....:)

[Muderman24]

Maybe a certain post count for certain games.

[torvue]

The ability to delete the best Score of all Time if you so desire to so, as they wont clear now, especially if somebody cheats. You have to delete and then reinstall the game to do this function now.

[Stifmeister2]

Ummm.. Weird. I can delete those scores with no problems.

[torvue]

best Score of all Time doesnt empty

actual Highscore Champion does empty ok

All personal Scores empty ok

Just cannot get rid of the best Score of All Time Section, withour deleting game and then reinstalling, I think the information of best Score of all Time is now contained in the Games List Tables.

[Neo_obs]

it is you can delete it just by emptying 2 fields in the games_list table I believe bestscore and bestmid

[Stifmeister2]

It would be cool if you could name your tournaments yourself. Now they're just "{gamename} Tournamtnt" or something like that.

I'd just like to make my own names for tourneys. :)

[---MAD---]

Allow admins to access the arcade even when its not active.

[VietLang]

I can think of a few:

- Award vBux points for top 10 high scores, not just highest scores. Admin has the ability to set all of these numbers.

- Can receive gifts/items rewards, not just vBux points

- Add few more default games

- Creating different teams/clans and have each clan challenge each other in a tournament.
- - - Private or public clans
- - - Jackpot amount can be divided equally to all clan members or each member recieve the jackpot amount
- - - Hidden traps/tricks other clan members or regular members. Recieve vBux if successful, loose points if fail.

- Bank robery (complement to the theft system in vBux/vbPlaza)
- Gift/items robery

Maybe the last two features belong to the vBux/vbPlaza, not obProArcade.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

templated!!!

would love to be able to move stuff around without major edits and messing stuff up.

(eg: announcment and tournament infor area at the top).

[---MAD---]

Delete games that are checked from the games list.

When there is a tie first in the high score champions, the second person gets a 3rd place trophy which is wrong. He/she should get a second place trophy :)

[kall]

Ability to store .swf files and .zips outside of the public webroot, like at the same level as 'public_html'.

This would make it harder (impossible?) for people to leech the files.

[Zia]

wish:
pnflashgame & v3's .zip game converter..

tho v3 to ibpor converter is near abt to finish..
if there a game converter with in ibproarcade..would be too kool

[MrZeropage]

What do you mean with "zip-game converter" ?
ZIP-Games from v3arcade are already supported...

about the converter: you mean it should be integrated in the ibPro-Installer, so it detects installed v3arcade and converts the games ect ?

[---MAD---]

Arcade FAQ could explain what the leader board, champions, king of arcade are. Could also have stuff like "why cant i play certain games in certain catagories". All these should off course go on the arcade nav, not main FAQ i dont think.

Maybe able to choose how many newest/most popular games to show up via admin cp.

[---MAD---]

- Ability to hide catagories from users that cant play games in them
- Ability to postion annoucements above "The arcade".
- Improve the ratings pop up menu and if possible change it to AJAX.
- Less space between Game boxes on the arcade home page (ibp style)

[---MAD---]

Prune all zero scores from arcade.

[Neo_obs]

you can actually do this userself but yes i believe it would be nice to have more score features

and on a side note can we have a timeline on when features will be implemented? Like maybe show that this feature comes before this one and it will be released with this version. All unofficial that is.

[MrZeropage]

I won't tell any release-date, feature-list or development-timeplan.

I think we all know where this can lead, there are other projects that totally spoiled it doing this ;)


Be sure each release of ibProArcade comes along with good, new and innovative feature and will improve the whole project. Just check the release-history...


ibProArcade v2.5.7+ is in development, the to-do-list is somehow long but will surely be loved by you :cool:



@MAD:
Why do you want to prune all ZERO scores ? The Arcade should not save any (after some small fix in v2.5.7+ ;))



What kind of score-tools or -functions do you want ? Please suggest !

[---MAD---]

Suggestion 1

Leader board names should have colour tags on them. So say if red is for admin, the admins should be red on the leader board. Same should happen if you are a champion of a certain game.

Suggestion 2

Arcade mod cp should have less tables. The mod notes doesnt need to be in its own table.

The whole mod cp shouldnt have a table background and should just use the forum background to keep it clean and neat.

Suggestion 3

The arcade settings should look like the rest of vbulletin settings. If you have a look at user cp option settings they look very neat, orginised and professional.

Suggestion 4

You shouldnt be able to rate a game from the home page. Instead rate the game after submitting a score.

Suggestion 5

Instead of text for "Add game to fav" maybe use a picture? It should make the arcade home page more attractive.

Suggestion 6

Center the text in the catagory cells. It doesnt look very nice when its to the left whilest the game boxes are all centered ;).

[icemanic]

i have a suggestion that was just given to me by one of my mods:

a feature to delete all scores / traces of a user in the arcade from the leaderboard...maybe this can be incorporated
this is useful for big forums

[MrZeropage]

You already can delete all scores of a specific user :)

Enter AdminCP -> Score Tools and search for that user. Then you will see all scores that user did - "mark all" and remove them ...

Only thing missing (and already on to-do-list for next version): also remove the "best results ever" of this user

[Neo_Angelo]

my Suggestions if they haven't already been said would be:

Suggestion 1:

Allow multiple games in tournements instead of just one

Suggestion 2:

Allows more than 8 players in a tournement, maybe add a box to enter figures into the tournament.

Suggestions 3:

Remove the Enter User ID of person you wish to enter in a tournament and have usernames instead as its much easier.

Suggestion 4:

allow users to rate games even if they don't have a score on that game.

Suggestion 5:

allow games to be put into more than one catagory.

Suggestion 6:

Make the arcades layout even better than it already is, its nice at the moment but i'm sure something could be done to improve it further.

and great job on your hard work. i love your arcade to pieces. *thumbs up*

[Neo_obs]

to continue on the tournament features maybe you can have it so you dont need to enter usernames or ids (leaving field blank) and then it will just let members sign up.

[jilly]

Tournament:

1. After you create a tournament, have a link to take you back to the main page - right now, it just loads up the 'create tournament' page again.

2. When creating a tournament, allow the creator the option to 'invite' members to join it.

[MrZeropage]

Invitation is a nice idea :cool:

[icemanic]

i dunno if this is already somehow in there, but after someone wins a tournament, maybe a trophy of some sort in their profile, or a tally of how many tournaments that have been won, etc
expanding on the tournament features would be great as it really cranks up the competiveness of people

[MrZeropage]

there already is information about how many tournaments are won in the postbit-info ... :)

[Zia]

Invitation is a nice idea :cool:

i think "challange" system would be more nice than invite....

both servs the same motto

[---MAD---]

@neo angelo
I dont think users without a score should be able to rate games..how would they know if the game is any good? ;). Maybe have a global option if this is implement to turn it off.

I also think that the after score submitted page (on the hi scores), there should be options to rate the game their instead of the arcade main page. This could clean up the main arcade page :).

[jilly]

dont know if this would take too many queries, but it would nice to have a text total of the current amount of games someone has won in postbit.

Something like

Current Highscores: 34

and it would change as they won/lost more scores,,,

[giorgiotave]

Job area, for forum whit have many people that speak about our work

For register our currilum. Many Society search in forum some body for collaboration.

GT

[MrZeropage]

Job area, for forum whit have many people that speak about our work

For register our currilum. Many Society search in forum some body for collaboration.

GT

Erm... this is a forum for ibProArcade ;)

[jilly]

Here's some tournament ideas.

1. In admincp set the number of hours that a tournament will "wait" for players to complete their game. (For example, 72 hours) - all in increments of 24 hours to make it easy.

2. Once a member joins a tournament, if 24 hours goes by and they haven't played their game, they get a reminder PM:

1st Reminder - Pingu Slap Tournament (name of tournament goes here - Pingu Slap my sample game )
This is a reminder that you have entered the Pingu Slap Tournament, but have not yet played your game. You have 72 more hours to play your game, or you will be disqualified from this tournament. Click here to go play your game!

then, after 24 more hours:

2nd Reminder - Pingu Slap Tournament
This is a reminder that you have entered the Pingu Slap Tournament, but have not yet played your game. You have 48 more hours to play your game, or you will be disqualified from this tournament. Click here to go play your game!

then, after 24 more hours:

3rd Reminder - Pingu Slap Tournament
This is a reminder that you have entered the Pingu Slap Tournament, but have not yet played your game. You have 24 more hours to play your game, or you will be disqualified from this tournament. Click here to go play your game!

then if they do not play, they get automatically disqualified, and receive this message:

Time-Out Disqualification - Pingu Slap Tournament
We are sorry to inform you that you have been disqualified from the Pingu Slap Tournament for failure to complete your game. If you are having technical difficulties with the arcade, please let us know!

Look for more tournaments to join again soon, or start your own, and good luck! Click here to view available tournaments or start your own

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This goes for each level in the tournament - so for the first game they have to play, the clock starts and they get their reminders - then if they play and win, and advance to the next level, the clock starts again, and the reminder pm's start again - until they either play or are disqualified - etc.. If they lose or are disqualified in some other way, then they get the normal notification pm

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Winner notification to all tournament members
>Would be nice if, once a tournament is over, all the participants in the tournament could recieve a notification PM

Pingu Slap Tournament - Winner jilly!
Congratulations to jilly, winner of the Pingu Slap Tournament!
We hope you enjoyed playing in this tournament.
Look for more tournaments to join again soon, or start your own, and good luck!
Click here to view available tournaments or start your own

[MrZeropage]

I just started coding such a Tournament-Reminder-System three days ago, so if everything proceeds well this will be a feature of v2.5.7+ :)

good suggestion, thx !

[giorgiotave]

Erm... this is a forum for ibProArcade ;)

Sorry :(

[jilly]

Another Tournament suggestion.

when you click the tournament link to view all available tournaments, it would be nice to have a link there for 'create a tournament' -

in the meantime, is there a template i can modify to go ahead and just stick the text link in myself? :)

[jilly]

another tournament related idea :)

1. Is there a way to see 'finished' tournaments and who won them?

If there is, it would also be nice if where it says "Tournaments Won" in your postbit, that it would be a link to show you the 'finished' and won tournaments..

[MrZeropage]

when you click the tournament link to view all available tournaments, it would be nice to have a link there for 'create a tournament' done for v2.5.7+

Is there a way to see 'finished' tournaments and who won them?Yes, already included this ;)
Look on Arcade-Mainpage in the Tournament-Block, there is "x finished tournaments" - there you can see all finished tournaments and their winners.
/arcade.php?&do=viewtourneyend

If there is, it would also be nice if where it says "Tournaments Won" in your postbit, that it would be a link to show you the 'finished' and won tournaments..Good idea (again) :)

[Gemma]

Better visualisation of the number of posts required before playing in the arcade would be helpful :)

Jus now we have the All-time Highscore,on the highscore page and in the game block,but could it be expanded on to show the length of time each All-time Highscore has stood for (on a separate page if possible?)

:)

[MrZeropage]

nice ideas all over the places, thank you VERY much :)

[jilly]

here's more!

I might have suggested some of these before, if I did, ignore me and send me coffee!!


> When you create a tournament - there is no conformation page - should be something that pops up saying "You have created a Pingu Tournament for 4 players with 2 tries each. Your tournament is now active and waiting for players.
And then it takes you back to where it does now, the 'create a tournament' page, so you can create another tournament.

> On that same page of tournament creation, there should be a link to:
A - go back to the main aracade
B - view all active tournaments
in case you dont want to create any more tournaments


> on the Create a tournament function - the ability to 'invite' your buddies of choice at the time of creation

> Once a tournament is created, if you go view a tournament, and you want to invite your friend, because you know she likes that game but probably hasnt just seen it yet, you can click on an 'invite player' link, and then put in the username, and the Arcade System sends that user a PM saying they have been invited into the Pingu Slap Tournament, with a link included for joining.

> On the main tournament page, you can view active tournaments and tournaments waiting for players - it would also be good to have a link to "Finished Tournaments", which would display the tournament name, the date it was finished, and who won it.

> Giving your tournament a custom name.
When creating a tournament, it would be cool to give it a custom name - for example right above the choice of what game the tournament is going to be about, there would be a name field, give us like 120 characters or maybe 240 - and we could name the tournament something like 'jilly's ultimate Pingu Slap Down Challenge'
or
"jilly's frosty christmas tetris ball"
it would make getting an invitation more colorful - "You've been invited to jilly's frosty christmas tetris ball" :)

[jilly]

Another Tournament Suggestion:

Have a tournament announcement at the top of the arcade, and also on the top of the tournament information page, starting who needs to play their game for the tournmanet to continue.

For example, if Pingu Slap is currently waiting for one person to finish their game so the next round can be advanced too, the tournament announcement area would show:

Pingu Slap Tournament - the following players need to complete their games to advance: memberA, memberB, and memberC

Virus2 Tournament - the following players need to complete their games to advance: memberD, memberX

Tetris Tournament - the following player needs to complete their game to advance: memberW

possibly these values could be pulled form the same area that the 'reminder' system will use - i.e. when a member is in the 'reminder' cue, their name shows up - and once they play their game, they drop off.. unless they go to the next round, and then their name will pop up again, as the system waits for them to play their game

This would also be helpful with the 'custom name' of the Tournament allowed, so if you have 3 Pingu Slap tournaments going on at the same time, it would be easier for players to remember which Pingu Slap tournament they are in..

[RetroDreams]

My only recommendation is to put the templates into the AdminCP where they should be and have them use the styles. It is a great product aside from that.

[icemanic]

how about a option where we can select 5 or so games and have them 'featured' on the homepage somewhere, this is good for those with lots of games,

or a flip side, is expand the random game option to have 5 random games featured all the time, even during the gameplay screen, this way users can jump from game to game

[jilly]

Ok, my members are really using and enjoying the tournament mode - one thing they said (and maybe it's already said in the thread here - but i didnt see it), is that they would like more notification pm's of everythign that happens - for example, you get a pm once the tournament is full - they would like to get pm's for these events too:

* when an opponent has completed all their tries, so they know they need to do or finish theirs up too

* when it's time for their try because an opponent dropped out, disqualified, etc. (already discussed, reminder system)

* when they have moved up to the next level because their opponent lost, or was disqualified

* when they've been eliminated from a tournament, because their score was beaten, or they were disqualified

* when the torunament is over, telling them the name of the tournament and who won

They also would like:
* an option to drop themselves out of a tournament

* an option to delete a tournament they started

* A place on arcade home saying what tournaments are in progress, and who is ahead, for example:

"jilly is the currrent leader in the Pingu Slap Tournament"
with the words Pingu Slap Tournament a link to the tournament itself or the tournament section

* a shoutbox or comment box in the tournament area, something where they or any onlookers can nicely goad or encourage each other, depending on the match :)
* some way to join leagues or teams, and then when they choose to join a tournament, they join it as the 'blue' league, and if it's a 4 game player match, then the blue league gets two slots and the red league gets two slots, and they play blue again red, etc. I know that's a bit more complicated - just something to keep in mind..

[Stifmeister2]

Some kind of time limit for Tournaments. I hate when people don't play and the tournament stays active for months.

Some kind of setup which allows the creator of the tournament to put a time limit (days or hours) for each round. After the time is up the one who hasn't yet played will be automatically disqualified.


More players for tournaments. 16 would be fine. :)

[jilly]

When a user creates a tournament, is it possible for then to 'donate' or pay for the jackpot using the vstore vbux? For example I want to make a roulette tournament, with 100,000 vbux as the jackpot = I dont necessarily make them want to pay anything to join, or maybe 15 or 50 points, or something - and then whoever wins the tournament gets the vbux prize automatically?

[MrZeropage]

tournament-participation has static costs which directly go into the jackpot.

8 players paying 100 bucks each result in a 800-bucks-jackpot

[Neo_obs]

New Idea could you possibly add the date the tournament ended to the arcade modcp?

-----------------------------------EDIT

Also would it be possible to add some sort of comment system for each tournament? So like if 1 player is going to be gone or something they can type it in (like a shoutbox) and it will appear at the bottom of the tournament page only?

[Barteken]

well on my forum I have one member who is really a freak (a very good one) he has almost every highscore on every game. Is it possible to add a future so one member can only have x highscores because one member with every highscore isn't really fun for the others...

[EasyTarget]

feature request / wish list:
use the vbulletin inherited permission system so that people using secondary usergroups don't have to redo their whole forum setup.

make an administration page accessible to usergroups/users that the admins choose. (so others can help install games, etc)

[butty]

feature request / wish list:
use the vbulletin inherited permission system so that people using secondary usergroups don't have to redo their whole forum setup.

make an administration page accessible to usergroups/users that the admins choose. (so others can help install games, etc)
here here. this would be a great addition for those have subscriptions setup as then we would be able yo offer more games for the subscribers to the forum :)

[funky1]

I think it would be sweet if it were possible to store all the games on a remote server. I have three different forums with this mod. It would be great if all three were accessing the same games on a 4th server.

[stangger5]

Is there anyway of making a Game Challenge like the one Cyber has made for ibProArcade...????

[Skedoozy]

I third or fourth or fith the suggestion to have bigger tournaments. 8 is too small. 16 would be a good start.

Also the ability to add people to a tournament via username as well as ID.

A time limit would also be good. A setting that says you have so many hours, or days to play or you are disqualified.

The ability to set how many new games show up in the new games list as well as the top games list.

[G_Man]

Also the ability to add people to a tournament via username as well as ID.

A time limit would also be good. A setting that says you have so many hours, or days to play or you are disqualified.



ohhh....

Good Ideas! ;)


Also, I noticed the other arcade has this add-on that allows admin to set a daily drop in all scores, by percentage. I love this idea. I have my scores auto-pruned to give others a chance, but this is way better I think. Say you set it to 10%, then the score drop by 10% per day lowering the top score and giving players a chance to beat it. It also provides incentive to keep playing as your score drops. :D

Thanks Again Mr. ZeroPage. Great Stuff.

[EasyTarget]

Admin - Ability to upload games without having to ftp access your server (So you just upload to pretty much an attachment that will place it in the games folder)

tournament - Ability to make private tournaments that require a password to enter.

tournament - large scale tournaments (could be up to 128 players) where it is swiss rounds (rounds depend on number of players joined). Then a cut to top 8 where they play round robin from there on out.

[gazzak]

Thanks for the Arcade. I love it!

As already mentioned, a tournament password so only invited players can take part, and the idea mentioned above about slowly clipping scores so they drop over time, a superb idea.

[Wheels]

I think it would be sweet if it were possible to store all the games on a remote server. I have three different forums with this mod. It would be great if all three were accessing the same games on a 4th server.

I agree. That would be good.

[Stunner]

Group Tournaments
Members can create/join a group and there can be group tourneys.

Add-ons
When uploading the .xml it comes equipped with who is playing what game and for how long on the Whose Online link. Also the Top 5 newest games on the Forum Home might be cool as well.

Tournament Participants
I don't think that would be added though would be a cool add on. If a member joins a tournament and doesn't play after so long they get banned or fined so many points until they actually play,lol

[MrZeropage]

Tournament Participants
I don't think that would be added though would be a cool add on. If a member joins a tournament and doesn't play after so long they get banned or fined so many points until they actually play,lol...wait for v2.5.7+ :D

[Goat Boy]

Not sure if this was mentioned already but a link to play again on the right hand side of the game would be nice for the games that don't have play again button in the game only submit button. This way you don't need to submit to get to the play again or go back and forth. The refresh does not work very will for restarting the game either.

Just my 2 cents

Cheers

[admin0]

Hi,

Example: http://www.nepalhub.com/arcade.php

Once a certain number of games are added, there is no need for new games, and also hard to find. So if possible, on the right hand side, left hand side, where "newest games" and "most played games" are shown, a possibility to show "random games" too .. and also the possibility to show 4-5 random games on other domains which others can include in their website and send gamers to the arcade.


Also, a points system that awards points only if somone else's record is broken. There are some players that keep on breaking their own record and in the same games. An award system when someone else's record is broken will make players try all games.

[ArchangelX]

I'd like to put another one in for an upgraded tournament feature. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10....hell...make it user selectable if possible. The current feature set is pretty limited for it right now...

This is a fantastic product, by the way. I use the arcade tournament feature for montly give-aways...like movie-tickets and t-shirts...so I really appreciate this feature and so do my users! Thanks!

[Shazz]

I can't seem to find any sort of fix for the 3.6

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

control number of icon POSTBIT CROWNS displayed (random or alpha or by date)

why?
-- marquee cause too much slow down (esp. vertical in FF)
-- icons are great...except for those members that have like ton of highscores (one has 100+crowns), postbit get ridiculous.

--ie: I have no option but to remove it. but I LOVE IT. so if I could just display like 8 (or whatever) crowns icons (new condensed ones are perfect size) across random order. that would allow me to display them, but not kill the postbit. :)

[G_Man]

control number of icon POSTBIT CROWNS displayed (random or alpha or by date)


-- icons are great...except for those members that have like ton of highscores (one has 100+crowns), postbit get ridiculous.

-

haha... Yes, that is a good idea. I am waiting to have to change to the single trophy, but a limit would be good.

[tobybird]

If possible, a fix to the apostrophe issue would be great. For example I have many users with apostrophes in their user name as seen with Susan'sMom below. When they complete a game they receive this error:

mySQL query error: INSERT INTO games_scores
(mid,gid,name,score,ip,timespent,datescored) VALUES
('22','25','Susan\\'sMom','464','71.100.115.24 7','455','1163219078')

mySQL error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'sMom','464','71.100.115.247','455','116321907 8')' at line 3
mySQL error code:
Date: Friday 10th of November 2006 11:24:38 PM

The same is occurring within the comments field.

i don\'t get it either

Thanks!

[MrZeropage]

This is fixed for whole ibProArcade in v2.5.8+ which I will release soon :)

[trigon]

can you add a feature, that allows arcade mods to sort the games? is it possible?

[Zia]

We got a wish long ago
Attack or Challange System ...........

:)

[Wabuf]

change the user who sends out the PM notifications option.
Have an option to delete multiple games with the check mark boxes.
get rid of the best score of all times and just have high score champion.

[Stifmeister2]

get rid of the best score of all times and just have high score champion.

Hell no. :confused: Some people actually like that...

[Wabuf]

Hell no. :confused: Some people actually like that...

Have it an option then.

[Stifmeister2]

Btw I'd like an option which allows you to prune all scores EXCEPT top 30 or top 50 from a game.


We don't use autoprune as our members don't want that. But there are so many useless "bad scores" and it's pain in the ass to remove them manually...

[Zachariah]

Alter table name idea

Current New Tables installed for the arcade are:

games_settings
games_savedGames
games_league
games_scores
games_list
games_cats
games_champs
tournament_players
tournaments
badwords
macro

Re-name with games_ prefix ?

games_tournament_players
games_tournaments
games_badwords
games_macro

I was working on a add-on and figured the "tournament" tables would be with the rest of the games_ prefix.

[G_Man]

change the user who sends out the PM notifications option.
Have an option to delete multiple games with the check mark boxes.
get rid of the best score of all times and just have high score champion.

Have it an option then.

I would like that as an option for sure.

[redspider]

what about if you own a couple of vbulletin site and all have the ibproarcade have a way for the champion from one site challange the champion of the other site.

[rcull]

An improved navbar template link might be:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.teambuick.com/forums/arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]">Arcade</a></td>

instead of:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="arcade.php?$session[sessionurl_q]">Arcade</a></td>

This helps the link work on other plugins.:up:

[rolandogomez]

I suggest better support for a "premium" addon. See this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132848). Thanks, rg sends!

[MrZeropage]

I don't know what you expect for a free addon, but support is given here from me when time permits and in other cases the community helps.

The "premium" section is for those bigger modifications that have alot of users (like ibProArcade has over 1800 installations) where support within the thread of the modification itself would be impossible - so within that seperate section real support is possible with having threads per problem ect.

[rolandogomez]

Mr.Z, please accept my apologies, as I love your product. I'm just dissappointed when I see other support questions, newer than my original post, answered in a day and my post was five days without one single answer, hence my frustrations, especially since I run a forum with over 20,000 users. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, rg sends!

[tobybird]

If possible, a fix to the apostrophe issue would be great. For example I have many users with apostrophes in their user name as seen with Susan'sMom below. When they complete a game they receive this error:

The same is occurring within the comments field.

Thanks!

Was this to be corrected in the 2.5.8+ release? If so, it is still happening.

[da420]

Love the Arcade Zero. Absolutely love teh product.

One suggestion - I would liek it if the trophy in the postbit does not appear to those that have not won any top scores, and also showed how many won tourneys in the little information bubble when you hover over it.

[redlabour]

Remove Games directly from the Arcade for Admins (fine for checking more than one new Game if they did not work you do not have to change to AdminCP everytime)
Report Games for Users (Must Have at over 1000 Games installed - Violence, Broken etc.)
Search at Gamelist in the AdminCP (Must Have at over 1000 Games installed)
Option to delete checked Games in Gamelist from the AdminCP (Must Have at over 1000 Games installed)
Change Resolution at Arcade (like at v3arcade - a must Have for some Games)

[wes_517]

I would LOVE to see a ladder challenge...

say for a game, when you join, if you are the first to join that ladder, you are on top, when you join, you start at the bottom.

you can challenge people up to 2-3 levels higher than you, but you'd have to work your way up, and defend against people lower than you trying to move past you...

[redlabour]

Remove Games directly from the Arcade for Admins (fine for checking more than one new Game if they did not work you do not have to change to AdminCP everytime)
Report Games for Users (Must Have at over 1000 Games installed - Violence, Broken etc.)
Search at Gamelist in the AdminCP (Must Have at over 1000 Games installed)
Option to delete checked Games in Gamelist from the AdminCP (Must Have at over 1000 Games installed)
Change Resolution at Arcade (like at v3arcade - a must Have for some Games)


Addition :

Sort Games into Categorys like the "Move to" Function from Forum within the Arcade

[Feckie (Roger)]

Search at Gamelist in the AdminCP (Must Have at over 1000 Games installed)
Option to delete checked Games in Gamelist from the AdminCP (Must Have at over 1000 Games installed)




Yes I agree a search in the admin would be great, also a multi delete is a must.

[redlabour]

Hmmmm ..... any Feedback from MrZeropage would be great!

[MrZeropage]

This thread is to give me input about your wishes and suggestions, I won't promise anything here :)

Sort Games into Categorys like the "Move to" Function from Forum within the Arcadeyou can sort multiple games in categories in the Game-List, check the multi-options at the bottom ;)

[Goat Boy]

Not sure if this was suggested yet but an option to remove champs (highest scores ever)
For each game.

[ArchangelX]

I would LOVE to see a ladder challenge...

say for a game, when you join, if you are the first to join that ladder, you are on top, when you join, you start at the bottom.

you can challenge people up to 2-3 levels higher than you, but you'd have to work your way up, and defend against people lower than you trying to move past you...

Woah...that sounds great! That would definetly get some interest!

[Veer]

Hello, dear MrZeropage,

I am posting a very important suggestion for ibProArcade system..

Please give us an option to edit user's scores via arcade admincp, and/or Arcade ModCP because sometime user's score not saving and users requesting me again n again to update their score, currently i am editing user's score via phpMyAdmin, its very hard for me to go to phpMyAdmin again n again, i am tired really,
So please give me an option in admincp to edit user scores.

thank you very much,

Warm regards. :)

[Phooey]

I haven't read through this whole thread, so I don't know if this is suggested yet, but I would LOVE to see the ability to automatically make a new thread in an assigned forum when a new tournament is started and then post in that thread as the tournament progresses.

Any chance of this happening?

[popowich]

- AdminCP -> New Games Today

There is a sort by date added, I'd also like a "list games added today". This week would be OK too.

For the private messages, how about they sort into a special folder by default? They create a lot of PM noise if you have a large arcade. If you could filer to each users arcade folder (create it if necessary) that would be nice.

In the arcade home with the 5 blocks for 1,2,3 leaders etc.. how about a 6th to even it out?
You can have an award for "on fire" the person who's increased their points the most in the last 24hrs.

-Raymond

[admin0]

some of my users, who just love to stay in the arcade, get their highscore beaten notification , sometimes over 100 a day. How to make it possible for users to not receive this emails on their choice .. just the highscore beaten one.

Thanks,

[ogameclub]

Game lists can open page and page. Pages can contain 100 games.

Multipl games uninstalling can be.

[Mudvayne]

1. Users Active in the Arcade collapsible.
2. Change the page title to <title><phrase 1=$vboptions[bbtitle]>$vbphrase[arcade]</phrase></title>
3. Advance user arcade stats on profile page. Like total games played. Lost. Wins. League champ. Last 5 games wins.

[malc1959]

option to delete selected games would be nice, doing it one by one takes so long

[Shazz]

option to delete selected games would be nice, doing it one by one takes so long

You can put the checkmark by each game and then at the bottom choose to delete them all?

[malc1959]

You can put the checkmark by each game and then at the bottom choose to delete them all?
even with my glasses on i still cant see that option, lol.
any chance you could point me in the right direction

[sinisterpain]

Is it possible to use another points system instead of vbbux, ie icash for the arcarde.

[Atwal]

I really want Monopoly in the future. I love Monopoly.

[aj8690]

When in the arcade home page, it will say "best score of all time : XX" "Actual highscore : YY". When you are playing a game, on the right side it says "Score to beat : XX" I would like it to show "YY" instead of "XX". Please either make this an option or make this the default. IMO, it should be the default.

[Shazz]

a Air conditioner of when you over heat cause the game is stressing

[popowich]

Hello,

I'd like to see an admincp option so I can add members to the admin group and only give them permissions to the arcade section of the admincp. You can do this already for example add to the admin group but only allow to modify styles for example, I'd like the same ability to a few selected members can add new games, fix high score hi/low settings issues, etc.

-Raymond

[Staxed]

I have two suggestions...

some sort of log to track admin actions (specifically requesting to log which admin moves what games where, or deletes, etc)

also...a mass delete feature (simply add a delete option to the' Functions to execute with selected Games' section at the bottom of the game listing page...

[LadyHoney]

I have a couple of suggestions..

Firstly awesome job. the arcade is my users favorite feature.. now some things to make our and i think other boards a bit more friendly.

The tournament section seems to have attracted alot of attention thruout this forum my first suggestion is for that..

We have a tournament master who sets up and watches over the tournaments keeps the reminders if a player doesnt play in x amount of time etc...

Our problem is that he is auto entered in every tournament he sets up and does not always want to participate... We would like his joining to be a choice ..

Also if a member chooses to opt out prior to all the postions to be filled there is no way to delete that player... He can be replaced but not removed. . removal would make it simpler for the Arcade manager.

We would like user group permissions to have the option of Arcade modCP permissions.. so they dont have mod priveledges in the main forums but they do in the arcade.

We have several that want to create and monitor tourneys .. challenges etc.. but have to rely on admin for all changes etc....they need access to the arcade cp but not our full acp.

Many of the previous posts are great ideas. the pm auto reminder is great id like to see it only as a one time thing for each level tho.. and an auto dq if they do not complete in x days
make that part of the tournament set up

Thank you in advance for considering our requests

[hydrostatic]

I would like an easier way to edit templates.

[testebr]

Please clone the v3Arcade Games list from admincp.

The actual games list option from ibProArcade is poor, very poor. Its hard to find an game and I cant limit the list by xx number per page.

[Zachariah]

arcade.php?&act=Arcade&module=report&user=XXX

It would be nice to only show games the user has played vs. entire game list with N/A's.
- enable / disable optional - for those that will cry all the games are not listed :)

[Staxed]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95918" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95918</a>

can you PLEASE incorporate this feature into the arcade? I don't want all my admins to beable to mess with the arcade...

[Stifmeister2]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95918

can you PLEASE incorporate this feature into the arcade? I don't want all my admins to beable to mess with the arcade...
Yes I would love this feature too!

[Zia]

:)
still got the old request :
-Challange system (user can challange other user)

-SHowing ibproarcade crown at uses profile page,not only postbit. Adding in postbit increase page loading time.So showing crown at profile would be nice.

Thanks.

[Black Tiger]

Would be nice if Icash hooks were build-in like, "activate pay per game" and "cost per game" and "highscore winner gets x cash", "all-time high score winner gets x cash".

If possible ofcourse.:)
There are hooks present now, but a lot of us has no clue how to build these things.
However, if not implemented, an included textdocument with several (noob-ready) examples would also be nice.

[Olli460]

Im pretty sure that vbux is already able to integrate with this. So you could probably do such actions. Im waiting for challenge mode. ^_^

[DementedMindz]

would be nice to see Make a new Post or New Thread on High score https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=130249 default in this cause that version is buggy I have tried everything even edited the product to make sure the user id was in there but it wouldn't work for me so maybe you can make something like this default

[Black Tiger]

Im pretty sure that vbux is already able to integrate with this
Yep but that's not a standalone system but part of vbplaza. Icash is small and standalone and icash hooks are already integrated in ibproarcade.

Thought of another nice feature. A mass-uninstaller or if possible one where you can select a bunch of games and then choose for "uninstall selected".

[abdulla1]

First i'd like to thanks who contributed in making it happen. :)

I'm sure it's been mentioned but i hardly suggest a multiplayer system integrated in the ibparcade, it would be awsome, members playing against eachothers.

Thanks

[Staxed]

First i'd like to thanks who contributed in making it happen. :)

I'm sure it's been mentioned but i hardly suggest a multiplayer system integrated in the ibparcade, it would be awsome, members playing against eachothers.

Thanks

there is already a tournament feature for this...

[abdulla1]

there is already a tournament feature for this...

If so can you give me a link to download games for the multiplayer?

i meant normal games they can compete, :)

[MrZeropage]

the tournament-system is integrated and can be used with any game.
But it is no realtime-multiplayer, just competition ... install ibProArcade and test it :)

[abdulla1]

the tournament-system is integrated and can be used with any game.
But it is no realtime-multiplayer, just competition ... install ibProArcade and test it :)

I already installed it thanks bro, great integration.

But i mean, Members playing against eachtothers, :)

regards.

[xchewbaka]

wish an agecheck like Arcade Gold from WD , is that possible in future ?

[Olli460]

Meh, I know you get bugged with this alot but Im just wondering the progress of the user vs. user system if there is one in the next plans.

It would just make me happy to know that there is one in the making.

[Zachariah]

MrZeropage,

Another Idea:

At the moment you can make a tournament and be a player, or create one in AdminCP and fill it with people. What would be nice is for the Admin / Arcade Mod to be able to make empty tournaments for people to join

[Feckie (Roger)]

MrZeropage,

Another Idea:

At the moment you can make a tournament and be a player, or create one in AdminCP and fill it with people. What would be nice is for the Admin / Arcade Mod to be able to make empty tournaments for people to join

gREAT iDEA

[Zachariah]

Sir,
Had another idea.

"report this game" in case of problems button / link

Perhaps option(s):
- textbox to type a message of the problem.
- PM Arcade Mod / Admin
- Email Mod / Admin
- make thread in a forum

[popowich]

Sir,
Had another idea.

"report this game" in case of problems button / link

Perhaps option(s):
- textbox to type a message of the problem.
- PM Arcade Mod / Admin
- Email Mod / Admin
- make thread in a forum

I have adedicated forum/thread for thsi where members can report problems and others take a look at it. If this was automated and could start or add to a thread I'd also like to see some information such as operating system, web browser, and version of flash. Sometimes games work for some people and not for others and it blows my mind. I'd love to have some reliable and automated way of gathering some extra details.

-Raymond

[mrpaint]

i think the favourite game system should update as digg system

[ArchangelX]

This might seem a little too much for such a small thing...but I really think a "Comment of the Day!" dealio would be really cool.

Some of the comments I read make me really laugh, espescially when someone is so close to beating a high score, or really suck at the game.

I get chuckles just reading through them...so I'd be curious if this was possible? I think it'd be a great, small addition to the package.

[jluerken]

Can you please add transparent code to the flash templates?
I am using a css menu and normally the flash games are on top and the menu is in the background.
To prevent the arcade from doing so pls. add this to all the places where this appears:

You can add a line of HTML to the Flash HTML that causes the flash to be "transparent" when interacting with the nav menu. The line is:

<param name="wmode" value="transparent">

This can be lumped together with the other "param" lines in your Flash HTML code.

You also have to add a parameter to your "embed" tag. The parameter is wmode="transparent". Therefore, a complete embed tag may look like this:

<embed src="flash.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="100" wmode="transparent"></embed>

[Elite-Programs]

MAke a NO LImt Holdem Game poker

[Amiga Harrison]

control number of icon POSTBIT CROWNS displayed (random or alpha or by date)

why?
-- marquee cause too much slow down (esp. vertical in FF)
-- icons are great...except for those members that have like ton of highscores (one has 100+crowns), postbit get ridiculous.

--ie: I have no option but to remove it. but I LOVE IT. so if I could just display like 8 (or whatever) crowns icons (new condensed ones are perfect size) across random order. that would allow me to display them, but not kill the postbit. :)

This is exactly what I need urgently on my forum. A couple of my members now have the hiscores in over 100 games and so their postbit is really long and makes their posts very large, even if they have only posted a single line of text in the actual post.

It would be perfect if we could set the total number of games to show in the postbit, and then to have a link under this to show all hiscores this member has. This would work well with the other suggestions given to show a member's hiscores in their profile. That way you could show the last 10 or so hiscore crown icons in th postbit, and a link under going to the member's profile saying "more >>" or something. This would work much better than currently having all of them in the postbit or nothing at all.

[Queball_Beast]

It would be nice if some information from the arcade could be sent out with the newsletter, like new games added, top 10 players, arcade champs and so on
I`m using Cummunity Bullentin Email Generator 4.5 for vbulletin
Cumbull

Cheers :up:

[ArchangelX]

MrZeropage,

Another Idea:

At the moment you can make a tournament and be a player, or create one in AdminCP and fill it with people. What would be nice is for the Admin / Arcade Mod to be able to make empty tournaments for people to join

Ditto this! This would make arcade tournament setup REALLY easy for me. I use the tournament system alot on my board for giveways and stuff...but it's kinda a pain to have sign people up this route. Gar.

[Foghorn Deadhor]

Man, lots of great suggestions. Mine is:

Please allow an option for "King of the Arcade" or other more robust arcade ranking things in postbits. Would appreciate especially 1st/2nd/3rd trophies. Someone elsewhere asked for way to link to alternate trophy icon(s), that would be excellent in addition to this but I personally would probably just replace the gifs -- though a different size for postbit and for arcade front would be boss.

Thanks, love this thing to death =)

[supermak]

On Firefox, playing one game in a tab and a diferent one in another tab causes that when first game finish, and hit submit on the second tab, on this second tab get recorded the score of the first game on the first tab.

[MrZeropage]

1) This thread is for suggestins, not bug-reports
2) are you using latest version of ibProArcade -> v2.6.1+ ?
3) please open support-thread :)

[ArchangelX]

Suggestion:

Ability to disable Firefox from playing games in the arcade.

To prevent cheating.

[Stifmeister2]

Suggestion:

Ability to disable Firefox from playing games in the arcade.

To prevent cheating.
Great idea!

I'm awere of the Firefox plugin related way to cheat too.. :( I've notified Mr Zeropage about it months ago. ;)

[MrZeropage]

well, by using new v32 and v33 games it very hard (impossible?) to cheat using that extension in firefox, as the score gets encrypted and verified with some data stored in the database corresponding to the gamesession, so I think it does not really help to adapt the data with the ff-extension as the score itself will be invalid.

Anybody there to verify that ?

[Stifmeister2]

well, by using new v32 and v33 games it very hard (impossible?) to cheat using that extension in firefox, as the score gets encrypted and verified with some data stored in the database corresponding to the gamesession, so I think it does not really help to adapt the data with the ff-extension as the score itself will be invalid.

Anybody there to verify that ?
Hmm I could probably test it if I can find a v32/v33 game...

[ArchangelX]

No offense, but the amount of V32/V33 games out there are extremely miniscule...and some of the games that aren't V32/V33 are very, very good or classic games that people like to play. If I had to remove all of them, then my arcade would end up being really, really weak. It's sad that we have to make a decision like that thanks to all of these cheaters. :(

[Stifmeister2]

Maybe some people could convert classic arcade games to v32/v33 version? Is it hard?

[MrZeropage]

there are currently 111 v32-games and 328 v33-games available at ibparcade.com

[Stifmeister2]

there are currently 111 v32-games and 328 v33-games available at ibparcade.com
Wow... gonne check them out. does it always say "v32" or "v33" in the game name or how can I tell which one is v32/33?

[MrZeropage]

check the DOWNLOAD database, all games are categorized to their version ect

[Stifmeister2]

check the DOWNLOAD database, all games are categorized to their version ect
Ooh it's that simple. I thought they had download links in the arcade catogeories but that was some other site...

[txspaderz]

I would love to find a way to show Open Tournaments on the Forum Home.

[beano33]

It would be helpful to have additional maintenance functions added for tournaments. Many tournaments don't get completed because someone enters and doesn't play. A setting to disqualify a player from a tournament who doesn't play in 'X' days would help. There should also be a setting to purge old tournaments.

[ArchangelX]

there are currently 111 v32-games and 328 v33-games available at ibparcade.com

*sigh*

[MrZeropage]

It would be helpful to have additional maintenance functions added for tournaments. Many tournaments don't get completed because someone enters and doesn't play. A setting to disqualify a player from a tournament who doesn't play in 'X' days would help. There should also be a setting to purge old tournaments.
Seems you don't have ibProArcade v2.6.1+ as it has both "prune old tournaments" and "remind/disqualify tournament-players after x days" included ;)

[rjmjr69]

any time frame on version 3 zero?

[MrZeropage]

next release will be v2.6.2+ and is almost done, I am just working on one final thing I want to be fixed for this release

[rjmjr69]

next release will be v2.6.2+ and is almost done, I am just working on one final thing I want to be fixed for this release


AWESOME news!!!!!! Thanks Zero can't wait to see what you have...


PS. If you need a beta tester let me know I have a custom template installed that doesnt play well with auto template edits. Might be advantageous to figure that out before release...

[SPuL]

great, cant wait for the release :)

thanks for puttin so much work in this hack mr zero

[duncan99]

next release will be v2.6.2+ and is almost done, I am just working on one final thing I want to be fixed for this release

I hope you fixed the submit problem for v32, v33 games, other features are just a fancy bonus, otherwise the whole Arcade is useless as hackers like to challenge the site.

Thank you very much for all your hard works, we appreciate that :)

[MrZeropage]

Yes, v32/v33 games are fixed and working fine in v2.6.2+ :)

[Madmp3zz]

Is the mass tar installer fixed in the new version, or can you not re-create the issue with the white screen??

[MrZeropage]

this seems to be caused by timeout or PHP-memorysize and is not related to ibProArcade itself. Check your server's configuration :)

[Karabaja]

Sorry if this has already been discussed but I recently converted to ibroarcade and I must say I am very glad I did. And I am sorry I didn't give it a try sooner. Anyway I'd like to suggest some way of mass installing large amount of games. I found some 700mb pack at vb-faq thx to Deejay Dan for posting it, and it is taking me days to install. If I try more games it is gonna give me error that "Length parameter must be greater than 0" and if I try really higher number of games it gets database error. So it would be nice to have mass install option choosing a number of games to process per batch. It doesn't matter if it takes few hours as long as it is automatic process that is not gonna take me sitting there and clicking install.

[wolf32]

I know this doesn't really pertain to ibProArcade the 'Arcade', but a module for vBa which displays 3 random games would be pretty cool.

[sjim]

Didnt have time to read through 12 pages. so excuse me if this has been proposed already or if it isnt even feasable. Can a feature that allows a new player to a add themselves to a designated (opt in mail) user group be implemented in a new version. :)

[popowich]

Didnt have time to read through 12 pages. so excuse me if this has been proposed already or if it isnt even feasable. Can a feature that allows a new player to a add themselves to a designated (opt in mail) user group be implemented in a new version. :)

This is already doable with vBulletin.

Create a publicly joinable group, and mail that group your arcade news.

-Raymond

[sjim]

create a publickly joinable group. Yes I realize that Pop but I was talking about a feature where they add themselves through your settings.
Thank you

[popowich]

If you are playing in a large arcade it's hard or at least annoying tracking down the games you have not played or do not have a 1st place in. I though it would nifty if in the same box you can sort by date added, name, etc, if you could also sort by "Games I have not played" and "Games that I'm not the champion in". Call them what you like, but that's the functionality.

-Raymond

[IR15H]

I haven't read all the pages, so I apologise if this has been requested before. I wish to give certain members limited access to the Admin CP, but would not like them to be able to alter any arcade settings. As it currently stands, if they are allowed to see the Admin CP at all then they are able to edit all arcade settings.

[MortysTW]

I know this doesn't really pertain to ibProArcade the 'Arcade', but a module for vBa which displays 3 random games would be pretty cool.

I don't know the name of the module, but its already at vbadvanced. Do a search for it. The module slips right in and you can control how many random games to display. There actually 3 different settings for it I believe.

[Greek76]

My suggestions mass deletion of games and maybe a casino mod like ipb forums have?

[MrZeropage]

mass deletion is included in next release (v2.6.2+) :)

[chatzworld]

good feature and very handy :)

[Stifmeister2]

maybe a casino mod like ipb forums have?

Look this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=140338

Hopefully it will be done. :)

[chatzworld]

lol @ stifmeister2 it would be good but duno if its a thin MrZ would do just need a good programmer to do it, but did see it on another vb site so wonder why we not got it here hmmmm

[adc-arab]

My suggestions that the admin or mods can create Tournament without participating on it cuzwhat if i don't wanna users to creat Tournament and i don't wanna participate i wanna create the tournaments for the users without me participating ;) thx alot for ur hard effort on working on this great script ^^

[chatzworld]

mods anyway can make tournaments and assign users to the tournaments in admincp ;)

[evesve]

Hi!
I suggest that we can activate "can view and play, but don´t save scores" to ALL membergroups.

[Loller]

Hello! I suggest that Arcade moderator can add new games on board.
Please :)

[abdulla1]

Hi! i suggest multiplayer capabilities :)

[chatzworld]

Hello! I suggest that Arcade moderator can add new games on board.
Please :)

As a system admin, I would not want any moderators to add arcade games, gives us less control over what games are added etc

Hi! i suggest multiplayer capabilities :)

I think we all suggest that :P but i think that takes more codding etc but you never know maybe in v3 we mite see it

[Madmp3zz]

Would like to see a stats module for CMPS.
Or even added to the arcade main page.

Total Games Played.
Top 5 games and times played.
etc., etc...

[EWGF]

Template editing via AdminCP.

[Mudvayne]

MrZeropage How about using the relevant page title for iBProArcade page? Like
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - ibProArcade</title></head>

[hugh_]

MrZeropage How about using the relevant page title for iBProArcade page? Like

What about <title>Game title - $vboptions[bbtitle] - ibProArcade</title></head>?

[okgaz]

An "advance all" button on your admin panel that will check through all the open tournaments and advance winning players from any stuck matches.

[cheat-master30]

These things would be nice (major things and minor)


Able to edit arcade styles through Style Manager
Able to easily change images for the arcade
Multiplayer games (I know, major)
More games with default download (and removing one, as one was removed from the authors site because of copyright)
All vB Plaza code removed. Just hooks for money codes.That's about it.

[okgaz]

An "advance all" button on your admin panel that will check through all the open tournaments and advance winning players from any stuck matches.

An alternative to this would be to check if there are any stuck games every time a tournament is viewed.


Also I think:
"Score Tools > Update the Best Results"
should replace the best score ever even if it is lower than the current high score

[Skavenger]

a suggestion:
you should use class="bginput" for input fields and class="button" for buttons for better looking in the arcade

[aacircle]

Would be good for admins to have access to a small X next to each game's username so we can just delete scores without going to the admincp. This feature is available in v3Arcade.

[Karabaja]

Not sure if it is mentioned already, but it would be nice to have direct link to a game listed on main page in "newests champions". So that people can easily try to beat a score if they see something interesting there. Instead of searching for the game if total number of games is high.

[Digital Jedi]

I'm sure this gets requested a lot. But being able to change the orientation of the tables that display the game instructions would be nice. I did this manually, but it would nice to have a admin option, so I don't have to redo it with every update.

Also, maybe this is just me, I've never understood why all these game mods have to have the top scores, the most recent games, the most played games and all that table info on every page. If there were an option to show it on just the index page, and have all the category listings on separate pages without having to scroll to the bottom, then I'd love that. As it is, I kind of have to put indications that games are listed at the bottom of each page, and I think, from a design sense point-of-view, that's not the most efficient design.

Last but not least, there seems to be an aversion to uploading games to these download sites with a clear and concise list of game-play instructions. I don't know if it's possible, but if there were some way for the in-game instructions to be "read" during install and then posted in The Controls or Object section, I think that would be a plus for the modfication.

[Feckie (Roger)]

How about a page in the Admin Control Panel, with links to the game site's where people can download the games...........

[tminus]

This has probably been mentioned before, but in order to rate a game, you have to add it as a favorite. So if you are rating a game low, you are essentially saying 'this is one of my favorite games and it sucks.' This is strange right? Favorite and Rating should be independent of one another in my opinion. Thanks.

[MrZeropage]

it is independent, you can rate every game after playing :)

[tminus]

it is independent, you can rate every game after playing :)
Oh sorry man! I didn't see that, thanks. I was thinking it would be nice to have it in the game list but I see now that the idea is that they have to play it once to rate it. Although, I have a number of games installed that are not IBPA integrated so no score submit, and therefore no opportunity to rate it without making it a favorite. Now that I know where it is I could add that bit to the game skin though. Thanks again.

[Pocket Aces]

Some essential options...
1. allow secondary usergroups when setting usergroup permissions - at the current setup, you need separate primary usergroup for those who are privileged to create tourney games
2. enable/disable view highscores/tourney wins in memberinfo (profile page) - this is an alternative way of acknowledging your members efforts if they managed to highscore 50+ games and you want to show all those games without compromising your server load (instead of postbit)

[bc3tech]

Some essential options...
...
2. enable/disable view highscores/tourney wins in memberinfo (profile page) - this is an alternative way of acknowledging your members efforts if they managed to highscore 50+ games and you want to show all those games without compromising your server load (instead of postbit)
EXACTLY what i was going to post. i'm trying to figure out how to add this now but not doing so well.:down:

[edytwinky]

Multiplayer games would be awesome!

[Mrdby]

when we click on game list..there should be a FIX GAMES section added for MASS FIX GAMES at one time or check them. If something is missing or needed it should report you after the test is done..wether error are in red and maybe even green.

[testebr]

ajax features and better skin like in v3arcade.

[okgaz]

The latest ipb version has a challenge system where users can challenge each other to a game. I know it's a lot to ask but that would be awesome!!

[Ski-Whiz]

Is there a way to work into the arcade a method to check to see if the game is installed already??

On the invision version, it checks to see if the game is installed.

most have a TON of games installed, and when I install some game packs (mutliple games) it just makes duplicate copies of the games..

So I have a few copies of certain games...

I think it would be nice to have it so the games are checked for dups when you install them..

[MortysTW]

Ya, when you are in teh AdminCP doing the install, it says INSTALLED next to it, therefore there isn't an INSTALL link, instead it says UNINSTALL.

But if you are getting repeats, its because more than one person mod'd the same game and something is slightly different about it enough that no arcade script is intelligent enough to know how to play the game and realize they are the same, just named different.

[Zi55]

Add a full screen playing mode ..

[MrZeropage]

@Zi55:
this is integrated in ibPro-Style, play "in new window" which is resizable up to fullscreen :)

[Simetrical]

If you get the same score as your highest so far, your new info should be saved to the database. This allows you to change your comment, and reduce the time played. A basic fix is easy: change the > and < on this line to >= and <=.
if ( (($player_score > $score) && $ginfo['highscore_type'] == "high") || (($player_score < $score && $ginfo['highscore_type'] == "low") && $score != 0) )

[MrZeropage]

time played gets reduced/saved if it is better than the current highscore :)

[Simetrical]

Not when I tried it.

[Acers]

MrZeropage, following needs to be looked into

1) The disqualification problem. The 7 day rule is not properly enforrced. I am giving examples.
a) Sometimes the arcade tourney gets locked when even though both the players have played the games, the winner is not advanced. In such cases we are shown a link to "make winner advance". Now if the faceoff player at next level has completed his games and was waiting for this guy, and if we advanced this person a bit late, than the original waiting person gets disqualified(if his waiting period was more than 7 days) A better option would be to reset his time when we make the winner advance as he can only play when he has an opponent. The time reset should be done everythime the faceoff player is ready and not from the time one guy becomes promoted to next level as to be fair to him he didn't have anyone to play against during that time. Yes he could have played on his own but people usually wait to see opponent before playing or before completing the game quota and in those cases(see point#2 below) he will get disqualified again cos of not completing the games in 7 days.
b) Another major problem is that in case a person has say 3/3 game tourney and two guys are playing. Suppose person-A has played all three games and person B has played only 1 out of 3 but has a higher score in that then all three combined games of A, after 7 days if B doesn't complete his rest 2 games(he has no need to) B shouldn't be disqualified. As he had more score than A even though he played one game, B should be promoted and A eliminated.

Some feature requests:

I would also recommend that you have a cron maybe to check stalled tourneys that we can run say every day automatically that advances winners. This should take care of stalls.

Also i would suggest a setting in admincp to cap the maximum tournaments that can be run at any given time. People seem to be opening a lot of tourneys without finishing the older ones.

A group setting on who can take part in the tournament. (so that only active guys can)

The feature requests aren't important. But the tourney probs need a fix. People are getting a bit disillusioned by the arcade tournament's otherwise.

[cashiss]

First off thanks for an amazing mod and all the work you put into it.

Some way to let the user challenges another user would be amazing. Where it already says what game they are playing when you hover there name in the arcade some way to challenge them on the game there playing. Would give players a lot more competition then just talking trash to each other in the high scores notes.

Also if there was some way to put the record of how many challenges won/lost in postbit/profile would improve competition too, and would drastically improve arcade activity.

[Wings69]

If this is in it I'm unaware of it - the ability to have games only able to play in tournament mode. As in I can select an option for a game so players can't regularly play it, but they CAN create a tournament using that game.

[StuntFactoryX]

well i ran across this thread on accident so if this has been suggested already i second it.

when i install games it kills my server or i run into bad games. recently i purchased some game packs where there are several hundred packed together and ill ftp them and walk away.

well would i would like is a feature where i can pick like maybee 20-30 games at a time and click "install these games" opposed to "install all games" at once.

[edytwinky]

Not sure if this available yet but I would like the main skin to have an option below the trophy leaders to show the best of the rest. i.e. the 4th-10th ranked trophy holders.

There is currently no way of finding out who has the fourth most trophies and so on and so on.

[Adolph]

Hello MrZeropage

I have about 2000 Lottery html& javascripts programs..I want to know can these programs could be put in arcade form?

Adolph

[under_takers]

Hello, I saw in Ibproarcade, Prune , any guy think about, giving high score to specific Username ? think about that.
I want to give score to some user in ibProArcade. thnx

[regitbull]

what about more card games?
Or maby multiplayer games?

[vgevolution]

I'd love to see Groups/Guilds/Clans/Teams, and the ability to use them in Group Tournaments and a separate Leaderboard, etc.

A Challenge system (seen this everywhere as a request, and I concur).

Prune all scores after top X scores (used for basic clean up, not the same as full pruning), OR the option to not save any score that doesn't get into the top X scores. Obviously, X is configurable.

A special "All Games" Category that shows every game from every category the user has rights to, and an intuitive change to the Game List View Filtering:

Right now when you click on "All" in the line, "All 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z", you only see the current category's games, whereas clicking "A" will show all games that start with "A" across all categories. By having a special "All Games" Category, you can make the line, "All 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z", filter the currently selected category only, be it "All Games" or "Puzzle Games", "Shooters", etc.

I'd also like to see some additions to the Game List templates:

Top X Highscore Champions, not just current High Score Champion, X is adjustable
Last Comment
Show the Category the game is listed in
Instructions/Description of game (so you don't have to pay credit to view them, or have to click on HighScores to get a description)


Add to my wish list the ability to have games appear in more than one category. Example: most holiday games would fall under multiple categories, like Holiday + Puzzle. This how "Tagging" works.

Another idea would be to implement "Rooms" (works like Categories, can be set up to allow certain usergroups access into the rooms, i.e. Premium Room, Free Play Room, etc., can't have same game in more than one room, can have separate instance of game in different rooms) and "Types" (works like Tags, i.e., games can have multiple tags, can limit usergroup access to certain tags, like Adult). I don't know if I'm explaining this correctly, but it I can think of several ways to use this.

[wEbAddEr]

a download link so members can download a predefined number of games, something like the arcade from ibparcade or ipbarcade-enchanted, this is still the only drawback to close my ipb board and set my vB board open to public.

[Mys]

I haven't read all the pages, so I apologise if this has been requested before. I wish to give certain members limited access to the Admin CP, but would not like them to be able to alter any arcade settings. As it currently stands, if they are allowed to see the Admin CP at all then they are able to edit all arcade settings.

I'll 2nd this one.

I would also like to be able to load v32 converted tar games. And have them submit score without extracting the gamedata folders. What a challenge this has been :eek:

[xXTheOneRavenXx]

What about a Full screen option? Some games I understand are made small, but are hard to see. Would there be a way to make the arcade full screen the game, and adjust the resolution accordingly?

[MrZeropage]

if you use ibPro-Style, you can play a game in a free resizable popup-window :)

[vgevolution]

I'd like to retain the top three High Scorers of All Time, so that after I prune scores every quarter, those who are the top 3 scorers will get to retain their titles, not just the top scorer. As far as I can tell, the King of the Arcade is the person who retains the most high scores of all time. It should be easy to award a second and third place title, or even to show a "scoreboard ranking" showing all those with High Scores of All Time, ranked from most to least.

[Jhonnyf]

I think that it's should be have a option to activate the arcade in some Schedule
This hour at this hour

[BatMNet]

Random.. But have a pre-defined score option and if any members reach the score they get bonus "Credits" and such

[jalmz]

must have a chat or shoutbox,

so that users can chat...

[stangger5]

must have a chat or shoutbox,

so that users can chat...

I use MGC Chatbox (with AJAX) in with the arcade..
You can find it here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=148472)

[jalmz]

stangger5
thanks... =)

[Digital Jedi]

Let's see:

I can't seem to get the Arcade Home and category pages to validate. I would like to see a future version that would pass XHTML validation so I can say my whole site passes.
A module for vBadvanced that also validates and has multiple display options.
The ability to better control the orientation of the tables on the game pages. Many games these days are 800 or more pixels wide. The side table for the description just looks odd when pressed thinned and stretched by a wide game (on a fixed width forum), with the game sitting midway down the page. I adjusted the code to get them to align bottom. But it would be nice to not have to redo that after every upgrade.
Similar to above, only this is on the arcade home. I would like to be able to orient those pages differently. Perhaps have the stats only show on the Arcade Home.
In line with the above two, how about something more straightforward, like a wholly new set of layout options (skins)? I'd even be willing to offer some HTML designs and donate them to you to work with.
When you edit a game, I think it would be nice to have it either return to the game you were editing, or return to the category you were in. Not just return to the "select filter" home.
An ESRB equivalent rating system in the Admin CP. Something that shows up in the Description and in the Game Objective section. 'E' 'T' 'M' 'Ao' etc
And this is the big one: Total elimination of the need for the page to reload to submit a score. For games that require manual submission, a small [submit score] button can be located beside the game menu, which can double as a way to ensure that all games record scores without reloading the page. Perhaps even an AJAX way of showing the score submitted successfully, like saying so, or displaying the usual rank page in a AJAX div.

[Stifmeister2]

I need this new feature:

- The ability to set max time/round (before disqualification) for every tournament. For now the setting is global, I'd like some tourmanents to have 1 day, some tourneys 2 days etc...

[dtv100]

I would love if when mass installing games if one game cant be install to skip to next one and then report games that dont work and auto delete them .
not stop and show error.

[thenutthouse]

I let people to have the ability to remain hidden in the forum, but when they go to arcade it still shows them at the bottom of the page. Can this be fixed?

[NeverBored]

Add the option to limit the number of plays for guests/not logged in people like the other user groups have

[Biker_GA]

The ability for Admin's to create a challenge and specify the participants. For example, I created a challenge and was able to change my ID to another individual. But since the other blocks are null, you cannot add a name to those blocks.

[MrZeropage]

ibProArcade does not have "challenge" but "tournaments" - and those can be created in AdminCP with all predefined participants...

[Biker_GA]

I just found that option and was on my way back here to edit my post. **banging head on desk**

[Edward S]

Hey,
How about the ability to make the system 'drop' a players high score in a game if they play the game again and get a lower score? - Call it 'Boxing Title Scoring' - where, if they play and get a lower score.. they aren't the CHAMP anymore.

This has probably already been suggested, but I think it would urge others to play...

Add to this that the player with the TOP score can be challenged by anyone else.. A kind of, "I challenge you to keep your score".. if the player doesn't play within 48 hours or so.. they auto-matically lose the top score... (Of course, if someone is going to be absent for the 48 hours they could 'buy' insurance ... cost of insurance (top score in one of the other games)...

Next, add a BLING store... let users 'buy' Bling to decorate their PostBit thingie..

I mean.. c'mon!. there's tons of stuff to ADD to this game.. Hooray!

[7lanet]

hello,

Please add feature to comment on Games

Thank you