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Originally Posted by merk_aus

Ok Guys - I have started recoding this, slowly seem I am only new to coding - I am coding it all up to meet the new standards outlined by vBulletin. I can say that it will not work on vb4.0 when it is released - when the coding is finished it will however work on 3.8.x

Ok so here are some new features etc that will be in the new version:-
+ Ajax Betting Updates
You can open a betting event at 1/1 and when people bet on something the odds will improve for that bet, just like proper betting the odds will move up and down depending on what people are betting on - if someone bets 1000 credits on 1 event obviously that teams odds will become shorter while the other teams will blow out.

+ Ability to cater for Horse Racing
There will be a new selection option where you can select if this is a Horse Racing Event, this would allow you to add a "Place/Show" odds as well, this would also help if you run a motorsport betting system - you would be able to bet on a win or placing.

+ Easier installation
Our aim is to provide an easier installation, with limited template edits, we are hoping to make it a product install only - however as I mentioned I am only new to coding and therefore it would depend on how well things go.

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I am still open to ideas, and am open to anyone with coding knowledge to help me out.

At the moment I am the only one Andreas has given the re-code permission to and my hope is to try and get this set up and running well... to work on 3.8.x and we will have to see what the coding involved with 4.0 is before deciding whether it would work on there.

If you are interested in helping please pm me.

Really can't thank you enough for working on this! I sure wish I could write code because I'd be trying to help every step of the way. As it is, about all I can offer are a few suggestions.

I'll just hit the first two off the top of my head... the Edit VBookie Event function should be a clickable button instead of clickable white text. That's already confused a couple of people in my forum, and I'll admit it's not as people-friendly as it could be... more easily visible, that is.

I'd also go back to an earlier suggestion. People should have the option to change their bets before the cut-off date. Particularly in the case of horseracing, that would clean up any problems connected to scratched horses. We ran into that issue last weekend, and it wasn't a problem for me to go into Admin CP and give them their points back, but if they'd been able to change their own bets, it would've saved me some time. Besides, horseracing bettors will often change their minds anyway.

I'm sure I'll have more suggestions as you go along, but those two are at the top of the list right now... sorry, and one other problem. The other day, when a horse scratched out of a race, I tried to change the Number of Outcomes. So I reduced the Number of Outcomes by one and clicked the button to Update Event. Even though it was supposed to reduce the number by one (I assume, since I changed the number), it still showed the same Number of Outcomes as the original setting after I'd clicked Update. In short, reducing the Number of Outcomes had no effect at all. It wasn't a major problem... just a glitch in the original code, I suppose.

Thanks again, and I'll try to come up with some more suggestions. I really think this could be a MOTM because it's definitely got tons of potential. I'd vote for it!