so what can I do with this hack

Please forgive me but what is 1.4rc2.

Under "Applicable Negation Awards", do I uncheck all or just the activity award. Also on the "Award Negation Multiplier", I changed from -1.5 to 1. Is that right.

Thanks for your help.

please read the feature list :D

the latest version of this hack

just the activity award. also, you probably want a negative value for the negation award! otherwise if an award is otherwise negated (post deleted, attachment deleted etc) then they would get MORE credits!!

what kind of awards to yall set up on your board for the members?

How to set 0 credits to all members?

Maybe I have some problems when I click on
Configure Addon Settings in the admin meni dont opening anythig

thank you

I'm upgrading from 1.1 to 1.4rc2 and there's no instruction on how to do this. Any help?

The instructions are in the UPGRADE folder that comes in the ZIP file.

i installed this last night it all looks good, but when i click on "check" in my postbit it just goes to a blank page?
any ideas what ive done wrong

Was integration with VBookie ever complete? I had a flick through the thread and saw it was in the pipeline in some early posts but then talk of it seemed to disappear.

I have vCredits and vBookie installed on my 3.6.9 forum now so i'm just waiting to hook the two together :D Thanks for any information.

use the mass credit updater tool in the acp under the vbcredits menu. select the groups you want to apply, no awards, and 0 base credits, and let it run.

you might have some trouble because of the very large gap. please contact me via PM or IM :)

did you upload credits.php to your forum directory?

yes, it was released during v1.3! if you still have the zip from 1.3 it is included in the extras folder, but if not, its normally found on my site. but its down right now, so PM me your email address and i will send it instead.

Hey i have a question about the paycheck system. I see two options for this and the 1st option is
"Interval for Activity and Paycheck Awards"
Number of days between each activity and paycheck award applications. Activity needs to be qualified according to the following setting.

and

"Paycheck Credit"
Applied every set time period with no particular restrictions.

Now i've set the intervals to 7 days and the amounts that each usergroup should get. These are my questions

Does the person have to be on the forums at least once a day? for the entire 7 days? and if so do they then get paid? (if that is the case what day do they get paid? and can that be set. like example every sunday,

Plz describe exactly how this function actually works because i really want to use this feature on my boards but im not sure of its complete functionality. Thanks for your great mod and i look foward to your response

Paycheck and Activity awards are similar to each other - they both get applied at the same time, but to get the activity award they need to meet your criteria for 'active', which is a setting in the award options.

So if they have [posted, logged in, searched, etc - depends on your setting] at least once during the time period, it counts. At the end of the time period and the start of another period, it checks if the person was active during the previous period, and awards accordingly. Note that if you have the Activity award selected in the applicable negation awards setting (also in awards options), then if they DONT qualify as active, the user will get (award amount) * (negation multiplier). Normally that would mean for a -1.5 negation multiplier and a 10 credit award, being inactive means you LOSE 15 credits :-p This was the old default until i made it optional. You may or may not want to do that so I am just letting you know.

When it actually happens is on a rolling basis starting from when you first installed the hack. I understand this can kinda be a little weird, so controls for adjusting the dates will be in the next major release.

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Hi there,

I just installed VB credits.

Now all I want to do is manually give people points. I call them Mypoints

I was wondering with this mod can i do this.

1. Have points displayed under a members username called "Mypoints": 125 (number of points)

2. I want to manually give people these points. As they will only get them when they win a game of poker.

So thats all I want to do. Is this the right mod or is there a diff one I should use. I dont need all the options that come with this mod. just a few slight ones.

Regards,


Mucker:confused:

This is the option for intervals
Number of days between each activity and paycheck award applications. Activity needs to be qualified according to the following setting.

Ok i understand its on a rolling basis and it starts from the day of the hack install, But how often do they get paid? number of days between each activity. I thought that was how often they got paid, like every 7 days, But by what that option says is that they only have to be active once within the 7 days? is this correcct
and if it is then i'll set it to 1 so they have to be active every day, but i still dont know how often they get paid or how to set it.

Also if i set the negation to 0 does that mean if they are not active they lose the entire check? cuz thats what i want.

thanks for your help

so what do yall do with these??? any ideas of rewards etc? never seen this on a board before

well one option would be to use it for an arcade system. so instead of all the games being free, people would have to use their points to play in the arcade.

im not sure, but you can ask - but you can integrate vbcredits with the casino hack here on vborg, and it would probably give out credits for winning. otherwise, i suggest you use the Post Award System which is a part of vbcredits. basicially it allows you to grant credits to other users that doesnt come out of your own account. you can limit this power in several ways if you would like even your entire board to do this to each other, but not get out of hand.

credits are normally displayed under their username in the postbit and profiles, if you do the template edits correctly :D (instructions in the zip), and anything you dont want to use can be easily disabled (such as the bank, which i know a lot of people dont want to use)

at the end of each time interval is when it checks and awards for activity (and paycheck, except that one doesnt check for anything). so if time period is set to 7, it will check at the end of each 7 days if they were active during the last 7 days. if its set to 1, it will check at the end of each day if they were active during the last day. if set to 3, they get paid every 3 days if they were active during the previous 3 days. :D

normally you wouldnt get the activity award (getting 0) for being inactive. but if the applicable negation award includes the activity award, they instead would get (activity award) * (negation multiplier). i dont recommnd changing the negation multiplier instead because that multiplier affects other awards when they get negated :-p (such as post/attachment/thread etc deletion)
if you dont want them to get anything for being inactive, then

pretty much anything can use credits eventually. some third party hacks need integration addons to be made, some are available from my site (click the link in the first post to go to the vbcredits product page which lists the ones i have so far). still more hacks come with the option to use a points system, such as the casino hack on vborg

Thanks,

Couldnt get it to work properley, too many options for me.

BAsically the games of poker are on the likes of 888 and poker stars. So I dont want to intergrate with the casino hack.

I want something as simple as Icash, but no one seems to be helping out over there. And I hear its full of bugs. Myself couldnt get rid of the donate links it puts everywhere.

If someone plays my game I want them to recieve cash points whic they can spend in my shop. I would do most of it manually and just want them to earn cash for referals and playing my games.

Regards,


Mucker:confused:

yes, you can do that with vbcredits. however i think if you contact me via PM or IM, I can coach you through which settings you want to have enabled, and disable everything else. :D

I am unfamiliar with Icash, but I have seen it. I've been using vbcredits for quite some time and I agree it can be overwhelming at first. It might be best to freshly install the latest 1.4 and run with the default settings until you get use to the settings and credit system. You didn't say what you have for sale for your user credits, but I am sure it could work... except the purchase. You would need additional add-ons from Dark to get that portion going. vbcredits is one of the best mods!!! And with the best support I ever witnessed!!! :D

Well, if he already has a system which accepted Icash payments, it shouldnt be a big issue to make it use credits instead :-p and thanks for the testimonial!

Nice mod.

There are no file edits... :confused:

what? the plugin system in vbulletin has been around for a long time - what hack ISNT using it? what "string of code" are you referring to? theres actually entire blocks of code all over the forums from vbcredits, something like 30 file edits otherwise. please explain what the problem is? :D

If editing 30 files manually is the lazy way to go about things, just shoot me when the really hard stuff starts getting posted.

I had a problem when installing this mod earlier when I was still using 3.6.8. It leaves me with a blank homepage after the install. I believe the problem lies within the automatic editing of the forum templates since I have many customized templates of my own, thus the modification was not able to overwrite it and causing the blank white forumhome.

Editing templates manually is unfortunately something I would need to do know as I have too many customized templates. From what I have learned about vbulletin is that it does not rewrite or add codes to a template if it is already customized. It will fail to insert any piece of additional code unless the template is revert.

uh, vbcredits does not automatically add any template edits. however it does support TMS, but then blank pages would be TMS's problem.

it sounds like you were missing the plugins file or you mis-applied a manual template edit. is your problem resolved? if not, come talk to me via PM and send an admin login with style perms

Please help. I installed this point system for the 3.6.9 version. Now I am upgrading to 3.7 version. What do I do.

Should I reinstall the points system for the older version first, upgrade for vBulletin to 3.7 and then reinstall the point system for the newer version.

Please help.

Thanks

You said that the mod doesn't automatically add any template edits. But what about automatic file edits?

I was hoping to resolve this without having to give anyone admin access to my site. I'll reinstall again and see what the problem is. This time it would be on 3.6.10 instead.

And what exactly is TMS?

Thanks.

go and download the vb3.7 version of vbcredits 1.4rc2. basically follow the regular upgrade instructions, but go through the installation template edits to double-check your edits are still there (some have changed for vb3.7 specifically). you should not lose any settings or accounts if done this way (uninstalling will). if you need help PM me.

it does not make any automatic file edits; it uses the vbulletin plugin system. these are more like amendments made to the file at runtime only and can turned on and off; the actual files themselves remain exactly how vbulletin provided them.

like i said, you might have missed uploading the plugins file. there has yet to be any problems with it since rev1, but i would have to see your site if theres something new indeed.

also, TMS is the template modification system available here at vborg. i do NOT recommend installing it solely for a single hack; it is best for site-wide conversion to the TMS system, which you may or may not want to do in exchange for not doing a couple template edits from one hack.

I did as the installation told me to do with all the template edits. However, the blank page still occurs for my forumhome. The only time the forumhome page is restored is when I disable the modification via the manage products section of the acp.

Even you said you'd like to help me out, but I do not wish to provide any admin login info to my site so I have decided to uninstall this modification instead. Thanks again for your time.

...the other reason i would have liked to see your homepage, is that you may have indeed found a bug that i should know about to prevent this from happening to other people.

if you would like you could give me a separate admin account which you can delete when i am finished. just start out with plugin access so i can troubleshoot the homepage plugins. i would encourage you to even be talking to me via IM while I diagnose the problem, so you know fully what I would be doing. i have helped literally dozens of other sites such as yourself, and i hope i have proven myself completed trustworthy to everyone thus far.

in any case, i hope you change your mind in the future, but thank you for trying it anyway :)

I am installing the blog addons and when I try to import the xml file from the server, this is the message I get.

Is is because of the credits vbulletin cretids.

Thanks.

you are using the wrong vbcredits version with the wrong version of vb :p i would guess you are using vb3.7 with the vb3.6 version of vbcredits. the other version is linked in the top post :)

I am trying to upgrade to the new vbulletin credit version and when I try to import the product-credit file per the upgrade instruction, I get the same error.

I get this message when upgrading to the new version.

Im not sure about the error but you are clicking to overwrite the existing file correct?

we took care of this over IM a few days ago :D the problem was the ftp program being used wasnt deep-copying the bitfield file :p so the problem wasnt going away. its fixed now.

I get this error.. :(

ok, seriously people - cant you read back only like 5 posts? i understand not reading all 100 pages, but when its right above the page from where I finished explaining to the last guy who asked the exact same thing....just ugh

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1751