[TheMayhem]

Originally Posted by RollaJedi

Hello
I understand it that vbexperience for vb4 has discontinued its plans for its own shop and they are gonna use this mod as its replacement. While Phalynx was working on his shop, i asked if there him if he could implement a small idea for me into the shop and he indicated that it would be in there when it was done. Now that the shop for his mod is not going to happen, i am asking you if maybe you could possibly implement my idea if possible?

All it is, is I'm looking for a 'Mystery Item' for my members to buy. Basically, when a person buys this, the mod would choose from all your items and randomly select one to give to that person. That would be fine like it is, but if its not much more of a problem, what about adding a percentage of the chance for each item to be randomly picked.

I'm needing this because i would like for the shop to be sort of a game with my members. Basically, each item i'm gonna make will be like a baseball card. When you buy a pack of cards, you dont know what you are getting. There are harder and easier to find cards to be found, and you want to find all of them to have a complete set. So see, i'm wanting my members to be active to earn their points so they can buy a mystery item and try to collect all of the items/cards.

I'd really appreciate it you might be able to add this at some point. Thank you!

I have plans before I release this thing to script an "Advertisement" section on the main part of the Point Market that will allow for a certain item to be advertised. This can be done by random or user selection of the market id number. I guess I could make it so that this also allows for users to purchase an unknown point market item and charges a set amount that is determined by you and what they end up getting is a surprise. I'll see what I can do on it.


Anyways, the merchant system is now basically complete. I need to do a little bit with ratings later tonight when i get home from work but the general concept is you can now setup "Intangible or Tangible" products that you can sell in addition to Forum Items. Users can purchase these products and on your Admin CP in the Store Items section, you'll be alerted of users who have purchased something and require action. Currently, there are two shipping methods after a poster purchases something. You can either select to email it and when done mark it as shipped or if a person actually purchases something like you are selling t-shirts, etc. you get their shipping information and ship the product. When you have successfully shipped it, the product allows you to enter a tracking URL so that users can track their purchases until they receive the product. This will allow you to use virtual ucash,points,activity,experience,credits or whatever your currency is to sell your products. I know some people wanted to sell more then just Forum Items and this option will allow you to do so.

In addition since some people might be using the market for just Forum Items and some people might be using the point market for just Store Items, I've set it up so that you can now turn off each section through Administrative Control Panel options.


Besides all of that, I need beta testers. Anyone interested in spending about 48 hours finding every bug known to mankind and testing all of these areas on an unstable product please private message me. This is what I need to know:

Point Market Version:
Other Point Systems Your Using: (uCash, vBookie, vbCredits, etc.)
Other Activity Systems Your Using: vBactivity, vBExperience
PHP Version:
Mysql Version:

This is for people who can thoroughly test things out. Don't apply if you want to use a beta version for your forum because its not stable yet. I've added more features to this then I ever have before and know there is going to be some bugs and I want to fix these bugs before I ever release this puppy so it is a stable product.