It's here! vBExperience 3.8.5 Beta 2 has arrived. It features promotions based on a xperience value that YOU can define. Experience, Tags, Posts, Friends - all can be used for a promotion to a higher usergroup.
Achievements are working the same way: Define the points that are needed to achieve them! Achievements are completing the idea behind the Awards.
A new tabbed interface will make it easy to navigate between the grown featureset.

Upgrade Instructions
1. Copy ALL (I mean ALL - That is a common error!) files from upload_via_ftp/ to the server.
2. ReImport product_vbexperience385.xml, allow overwrite
3. If you modified any of the vBExperience templates, revert them
4. Check all Awards, correct their URL to the new path /xperience/icons/. If you don't have custom awards, use the "clear award"-command to clear and re-create them.
5. Run AdminCP/Experience/Recount

History
3.8.5 Beta 2, 02nd September 2009
- Just a short note: Condition in Achievements and Promotions are calculated in POINTS, not in counts of items.
If you choose 10 Day, you must enter the points needed for this.
For example: You have an achievement for 10 days. You have set 2 points for every day since registering. Calculation: 10*2 = 20
You will have to set 20 as the condition.
- New tabbed interface. If you want to change the style, edit the template xperience_navbar_css
- Promotions now showing usergroups and conditions for a promotion to the next group
- You can import old vBExperience Legacy promotions (that were created within level.xml)
- Achievements in Profile
- Achievements below Avatar
- Several Beta 1 fixes

3.8.5 Beta 1, 28th August 2009
- Achievements!
- Promotions!
- Notification on Awards, Promotions and Achievements
- GAP: Empty pointfields will not be displayed anymore
- Activity: Showing percent values with a decimal
- Activities now also for users
- Awards below Avatar
- Default Awards are now also creating new category
- Shop: Fixed issue in not returning cash on sells
- Reworked Edit Shop Items

Todo for Beta 3:
- Download files with vBExperience as a credit system ("LDM Links and Downloads Manager", "DownloadsII")
- Activity eraser
- AdminCP Permissions
- Advanced User Permissions

You are implementing (in BETA3) points for temp downloads?! :eek:

Oh yeah! :cool:

Do we have to use DownloadsII or LDM to use this feature or can we use the default vB download or does it incorporate all?

It's almost done. The plugin for LDM/DLII is finished, the database can handle it - but it's missing an input field in the shop properties. It will follow then in Beta 3.

Beta 3 will be released in around 2 Weeks, because I'm on holidays next week.

Do I Have to upgrade to the new beta to do this

Promotion system
To motivate users to do more on your forum I created the promotion system. By reaching defined xperience points the user will be moved to another usergroup - where you can set graphics, shadows, highlighting, etc... What is interesting in combination with this: you can give the user more possibilities f.e. larger avatars or bigger PM box. A log of the promotions is available.

I can't work out how to set this up

If you can't work out, you need to upgrade to the Beta 2. Older versions are much more complicated (editing XML files). With 3.8.5 there is a GUI for that.

Will upgrade now, As last t ime I tried the promotion it ended up pomoting all my banned users lol

This will not happen with 3.8.5, as you define the group from which the user can promote to another.

vBExperience won already "Mod Of The Month"-Award in March 2008.
Great News: vBExperience has been nominated for the Mod Of The Month September 2009!

It would be great to have your vote here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=222194

voted!

vBEx deserved my vote. :)