[wcbryant]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

@wcbryant
I don't understand your Request exactly ... private Bets are already possible.
Can you explain exactly what you want?

Sorry Kirby, end of a long day when I wrote that, and it didn't read well.

To start off, I should have called it "person-to-person" betting, and not "private."

I'd like to figure out a way to add another class of events. I have moderators who create site-wide events, always sports related on my site. No one else is able to create vBookie events, for the sake of not polluting the system. What I'd like, what my users are asking for, is a way (perhaps through PM) for users to create and have a record of private 2-person bets. These wouldn't be bets anyone else could participate it.

I imagine it would work something like this. User1 and User2 disagree about something. User1 thinks the sky is blue, User2 thinks it's red. User1 spawns a bet which is sent privately to User2, and selects 'terms' for the bet. Public/private result, odds, close date, perhaps even select another user (User3, here) as an impartial judge. User2 receives a PM detailing the terms, and has to accept or decline the bet. When the close date arrives, either User1, or (ideally, if an impartial judge was selected) User3, enters the results and processes the bet. In this case, User1 or 3 record that the sky is indeed blue, as it was even odds for 100 vCash each, the cash held by the event is released to User1. You could even go as far as to allow a % to go to User3 as a service tip. Maybe a seperate 'news' section within vBookie could annouce the results of these, with the level of detail provided to the public dependant upon User1 having selected a public or private person-to-person bet.

I know that's a convoluted way to ask for a pretty simple thing. I do know this *could* be done through the system now. But it would cause a few unhappy problems. First and foremost, it would flood the vBookie system on my site with events, the ones we're doing on a site-wide level would be lost in the deluge. Secondly, it would mean one of my mods having to create an event for the people in question every single time they want an event. I guess my hope is that a "person-to-person" side of vBookie could be opened up that would allow the users to deal with their little side bets without mod intervention, and without flooding vBookie's bet listings with literally hundreds of new events. Doing this through PMs would also mean I wouldn't have to have thousands of new threads created for every little side bet people want to run.

Hope this makes some sense. It's the end of yet another long day. If I'm the only one who would get some use out of such a system, obviously I can toss a request out there for a bit of custom coding in another area of vb.org. I just know it's come up before, so I thought I'd toss it in here to see if there's a 'market' at all for such a feature.

(edit: Re-reading this, I wonder if it's too big a hassle to reasonably suggest here. As a non-coder, I just have no idea whatsoever.)

All that aside, thanks SO much for converting this. It was one of my last few "must-have's" for 3.5.0. Now I just need someone to help svc out with AWS and I'm good to go.