Major Additions - Casino (w/ 10 player poker)

The Gameroom is the follow up to this, and expands on its features. This mod will no longer be supported, Gameroom is here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=219483

This is a casino addition for vBulletin, so far containing video poker, blackjack, Slots, a lottery, Let 'em Ride, Roulette and a betting pool.

It can use it's own cash as well as cash fields from other products for easy integration. Cash bonuses are also awarded for various actions (posting, starting threads, etc.), you can alter the bonus values through the admincp.

Each of the 10 games can be turned on or off through the control panel, and the casino can be restricted by user group.

I'd consider this a test run, everything should work, but some of the template's and all of the phrasing are not done yet.

Screenshots are attached.

If you want to see a demo, it's live at http://vbgaming.org, it does require registration though as it needs a userid to attach your money too Bug reports and requests can also be posted there, and will probably have less chance of getting buried in this rather massive thread. If you are having a problem, please look there. If it is one that others have been having, there will likely be a solution there (as well as in this thread, just harder to find here)

v 0.90 (Jan 6)
- Fixed a bug in lottery odds calculation that was casuing problems with the jackpot.
- Completed Phrasing of all games & admincp
- Removed card flicker some people experienced in Texas Hold'em
- Removed unused table limit setting from Video Poker settings
- Handled a DB error that occasionally came out of the slots game
- Sports Pool groups are now edited through the game, not the admincp
- Blackjack: Dealer checks for blackjack on A or 10
- Blackjack: Added Five card charlie rule
- Texas Hold'em: poker mod groups can now use the command "/kick username" to kick people out of the game. If a hand is in progress it counts as a forced fold, not returning their share of the pot.
- Blackjack - Fixed bug on bet amount when splitting more then once on a hand

v 0.91 (Jan 13)
- Added missing field for holdem mod groups to settings table
- Removed 0.90 test code of drawin same numbers in lottery
- Piped all the ajax files through casino.php, this should solve some of the conflicts people where having (ex. mkportal)
- Added missing link to add / edit groups in sports pool
- Fixed extra \'s in chatbox some users where getting
- Added a reset cash button in the ACP
- Fixed a bug where the blackjack_dealt table wasn't getting cleared properly
- Fixed "Most Lost" stat calculation


v 0.92 (Feb 18)
- Fixed Default Cash not saving
- Texas Hold'em no longer shows hand after folding
- Texas Hold'em buttons should not reappear after clicking if a request was in progress when they where clicked
- Fixed some of the reinstall issues people have been having

This is pretty minor, working on some major changes to the Texas Hold'em game that are taking longer then I planned due to other things coming up.

Known issues:
- The same player attempting to play more then one instance of the same game at the same time will cause errors.

To update overwrite all of the old files and import the product, revert any modified (casino) templates and don't forget the files in other folders Also some of the images have changed, those need uploaded again. (as well as the includes and admincp files) You DO NOT need to uninstall the previous version to upgrade, this will cause problems. Just overwrite existing files and import the product again, allowing overwrite.

**Make sure you overwrite ALL existing files and revert ALL casino templates**

[Hornstar]

If anyone wants the postbit linking to their casino like I have done here: http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/fu...514-jokes.html

You can achieve this by doing the following little template modification

instead of adding this

<br />Casino Cash: $$post[casino_cash]

replace that with this

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/casino.php">Casino Cash:</a> $$post[casino_cash]

Feel free to make that default, it just allows more people to know where the casino is better.

[LordDB]

All seems to be well now with the Slot payout, so thx Andrew!

[Hornstar]

Okay got a screen shot of that bug I mentioned in one of my last posts, a member got it as well, and also thinks the blackjack is a little bugged/rigged

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...zdeath/tgg.jpg they bet 10 got 2 and a half cherries, but should have been 3, and only won 10, when they should have won heaps more.

Here is a quote from his second report, ill see if you can confirm this:
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...ath/ddddee.jpg

Originally Posted by member on my site

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m218/Vampzdeath/ddddee.jpg
First off im here to tell you that the Black Jack is infact Rigged...
secound there is a bug idk why but it wont load the page every time after u bet and u loose the 100 u bet... /tear

See if you can confirm any of those. Thanks.

[Ski-Whiz]

While I don't want members winning the world, I think the odds seem to be against them.

I think only a few members have actually come out winning more money than they started with.

[Mark.B]

I do see the problem there......I think Blackjack and Poker are about right, but the Lottery and the Slots seem to be a hiding to nothing. Nobody's actually won our lottery jackpot at all yet despite it running every night for a fortnight and people are losing interest.

The lottery could be sorted by making it possible to reduce the number of "balls" even further, from 20 to say 15.

Slots...I don't know. I've won a few times and it *seems* ok but I agree some people might prefer "all three" to come in a bit more often. Maybe "easy/hard" settings might resolve this one, perhaps the payouts could be less on an easy setting but more frequent...or something. I dunno.

[Andrew Green]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Okay got a screen shot of that bug I mentioned in one of my last posts, a member got it as well, and also thinks the blackjack is a little bugged/rigged

Blackjack is not rigged, the deck is shuffled and dealt from that. Dealer hits until he has 17 or more

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...zdeath/tgg.jpg they bet 10 got 2 and a half cherries, but should have been 3, and only won 10, when they should have won heaps more.

It shouldn't be 3, I'm not sure what it should be. That's a javascript error popping up and the 3 wheel just stalling out, so the payout was proper but the display wasn't. I've never had that happen so am wondering if it is a IE thing, was that the browser you where using?

And as far as slots go, I'll have a look at the weightings and payouts, see if there is anything I can do and still keep payouts around 100%.

Lottery range can also be decreased, math seems to hold down to 3 x 13, which is a 1 in 286 chance of winning the jackpot, and a minimum jackpot of 68, average around 140.

[Captain Kirk76]

This is very good, one thing that my members suggest:
They seem to think Blackjack is far too lenient, in that it very often gives you a win, is there any chance of changing probability?

[Andrew Green]

Originally Posted by Captain Kirk76

This is very good, one thing that my members suggest:
They seem to think Blackjack is far too lenient, in that it very often gives you a win, is there any chance of changing probability?

lol, so one person saying its rigged against them, and another saying it's rigged for them

It's not rigged in any way, cards are dealt at random and the dealer follows the standard hold on 17 rule used in casino's.

[Robbed]

Since the upgrade, using slots and firefox the payout number overlaps the word payout.

Another small thing for slots it shows the full url for the title

not Forum Name - Slots

[Tulsa]

Originally Posted by Andrew Green

It shouldn't be 3, I'm not sure what it should be. That's a javascript error popping up and the 3 wheel just stalling out, so the payout was proper but the display wasn't. I've never had that happen so am wondering if it is a IE thing, was that the browser you where using?

I've had the third wheel stall or miss it's position. I'm using a Mac and Firefox.