Major Additions - vBCredits - Ultimate Points System

vBCredits is the ultimate points system for your vBulletin!
Click here for the vB3.6 compatible version

Yes, this also works for vB3.8!

Thank you to everyone who voted us MOTM

Features:

• Earning Credits
  • Twenty-Four Actions Eligible for Awards
    • Induction
      • Registration, Promotion, Subscription, etc
    • Referral
    • Paycheck
      • Definable Time Period
    • Activity
      • Definable Qualification
    • Birthday
    • Grant Reputation
      • Can Integrate with Rep Power
    • Receive Reputation
      • Can Multiply Reputation Points
    • Infraction
      • Can Multiply Infraction Points
    • New Thread
    • Rate Thread
      • Can Multiply Rating
    • Posting
    • Own Thread Posting
    • Post Size
      • Multiply Against Chars or Words
      • Can Strip BB Code Prior
      • Definable Maximum
    • Your Thread Viewed
      • Can Disable Guest Views
    • Your Thread Rated
    • Your Thread Replied
    • Your Profile Viewed
    • Poll Creation
    • Poll Vote
    • Upload Attachment
    • Sending PM
    • Calendar Event
    • Profile Picture
    • Profile Fields
      • Can Multiply Number of Fields
      • Can Set Minimum Fields
  • Decimal Settings for Credits and Percentages
  • Protocol for Negative Balances
  • Award Recalculation when Action Changes
  • Award Negation Multiplier
    • When Action Revoked Such As Post Deletion
  • Forum Overrides
    • Twelve Eligible Actions by Usergroup
    • ACP Tool to Configure Multiple at Once
    • Earning in Forums Can be Turned Off
• Displaying Credits
  • Everybody, Private, Nobody
    • Usergroup Permission to See All Private Amounts
  • Displays by Global, Usergroup, Forum
  • Lock Usergroups from Entire System
  • AJAX Navbar Amount Refresh
  • Display / Order by Savings, Checking, or Both
  • Richest User Listing
    • Can Exclude Usergroups From Listing
  • Display Credits in Memberlist
• Extensive Referral System
  • Validate by Time, Posts, and Reputation
  • Referee Credit Incentive
  • Number of Referrals per Referral Point
  • Maximum Referral Points
  • Referral Points Multiplied Against Additive Referral Bonus
  • ARB Increases ALL Other Action Award Amounts
• Post Award System
  • AJAX Through Thread or Profile
  • Can Spend From Central Board Account
    • Filled from Taxes, Fees, etc
  • Daily, User, Thread Limits
  • Can Disallow Negative Awards
  • Disable by Usergroup, Forum
  • Moderate by Usergroup, Forum
  • Can Publicly Display Awards in Thread
• Transaction Log
  • Displays All Donations, Awards, Payments, Winnings, etc
  • Can be Split into Pages
  • Usergroup Permission to View All Users' Logs
  • Specify Transaction Alerts via PM
  • Comments and Reasons Allow BB Code
• Donations
  • Support for Comments and Anonymous
  • Time Based User Limits
  • Donation Fee
  • Fee Handling Protocol
  • Moderate / Cancel Donations
• Drawings
  • Unlimited Concurrent Drawings
  • Raffle / Lottery Types
  • Static / Raising Jackpots
  • Per Drawing Ticket Cost
  • Maximum Active Tickets
  • Minimum / Maximum Tickets Sold for Drawings
  • Recurring Drawings
  • Usergroup Discounts
  • Configurable Title and Date
  • Exclude Usergroups
  • Optional Winner PHP
  • Allow Lottery Number Picking
  • Tax on Winnings
  • Archive Time Limit for Completed Drawings
  • Retry Period for Ineligible Drawings
• Savings Accounts
  • Validate Access by Time, Posts, and Reputation
  • Minimum Balance for Interest
  • Bank Transfer Fee
  • Pending Deposits
  • Early Withdrawal Fee
  • Interest Intervals
  • Maximum Savings per Usergroup
  • Configurable Usergroup Interest Rates
  • Moderate Deposits
• Loans
  • Moderate Loans
  • Maximum Total Loans and Amounts
  • Minimum Loan Amount
  • Minimum Payment by Due Date
  • Late Payment Fee
  • Automatic Recurring Payments
  • Accountability Rating for Loan Repayment
  • Good and Bad Rating Thresholds
  • Lock Spending Ability if Below Bad Rating
  • Transfer Usergroups when Threshold Passed
    • Reward or Punish Users with New Rates and Abilities
• Administrative Utilities
  • Mass Usergroup Updater
    • Select Template Usergroup to Copy Settings
    • Select Multiple Target Usergroups
    • Configure All Usergroup Settings and Awards
  • Mass Credit Updater
    • Retroactively Award Users Based on Settings
    • Can be Used to Award Static Amounts to All Users
    • Can be Used to Reset Entire Usergroups
    • Pick and Choose Usergroups and Awards to Calculate
  • Modify User Accounts by Criteria
    • First Search for Users Using Familiar Options
    • Can Search by Savings and Checking Amounts
    • Can Alter Resulting Users' Amounts Directly
    • Can Apply Easy-to-Use Custom Defined Formula
      • Use Simple Math, Numbers, and Variables
        • Days Registered
        • Post Count
        • Reputation
        • Infraction Points
        • Checking and Savings Amounts
• Overall Quality
  • Everything is Easily Disabled / Unlimited
  • Will Not Alter Environment for vB or Other Hacks
  • Fully Phrased
  • Complete Admin Help*
  • WOL Locations
  • Includes Hooks
  • Unique Plugin Optimization
  • Uses Bitfields and Datastore
  • Maintains Sessions
  • Includes TMS Support
  • No File Edits

and much more!

Just follow the directions carefully in the zip based on whether you are clean installing or upgrading


Fully integrated with vBulletin and easily integrated with third party scripts:
Many hacks allow you to specify a points system by entering the table and column for the points data. Use TABLE: user COLUMN: credits when integrating vBCredits with such hacks (note: you may need to include your table prefix with some hacks)! If you are unsure about integration - ask me!

Why is this version not the gold version yet?
vBCredits 1.4rc1 went through a long bugtesting process at the official site, and rc2 is largely bug free in its entirety. However, *it is missing most of the admin help and post/thread deletion actions are temporarily removed while I figure out how to fix them.

Footnotes:
Thank you for using vBCredits, I would be happy to hear your feedback and correct anything that comes up. For more tailored support, please indicate you have installed this hack, and if you like it you can nominate this for MOTM. Use of this free hack requires that you retain the copyright line at the bottom of the forum (PM me otherwise). If you do not agree with this, please do not use vBCredits - thank you for your understanding and support!

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by rknight111

Im thinking about adding this feature to my board, the only thing im wondering is my members are quite compedative and have built there casino $$ up quite a bit, now what would happen to that when I add this, is there a converter for that, or a process, or is this not compadable with that?

Thanks,
RON

The casino can be configured to work with vbcredits. I forget if the hack had its own internal points system or not, but if so I will make something to convert from it and then you select to have it use credits.

Originally Posted by Sarcoth

Thanks for the mod, I am using this with the ibProArcade.

I added a scheduled task to run every hour but am getting more out of it than I'd like. My goal is to increase the jackpot for every arcade game by 5 every hour. Here's my code.

$Jackpot = $vbulletin->db->query("SELECT * FROM vBull_games_list");
while($row = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($Jackpot)) {
    $vbulletin->db->query_write("update vBull_games_list set jackpot = jackpot + '5'");
}

Rather than going up by 5, it is increasing by 40. Since I only have 8 games installed right now, it appears to by multiplying 5 x 8; is it running 8 times for each game?

What change should I make to have it only run once per game? Any idea?

Thank you for your time.

EDITED:

Well, this appears to have fixed my problem; I think there is an easier way. I remember doing an update similiar to this once upon a time, but I can't remember how.

$Game = 0;

$Jackpot = $vbulletin->db->query("SELECT * FROM vBull_games_list");
while($row = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($Jackpot)) {
    $Game = $Game + 1;
    $vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE vBull_games_list SET jackpot = jackpot + '1' WHERE gid = '$Game' ");
}

You could just do this:

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "games_list SET jackpot = jackpot + 5"); 


and use whatever number you want instead of 5 to increase every jackpot by.

Originally Posted by PGAmerica

I installed this mod and love it. However, at the bottom of every page is a piece of text that says "vBCredits v1.4 Copyright ?2007 - 2008, PixelFX Studios". This is nopt a problem. What is a problem is that when the links are clicked, it goes to these sites and leaves mine.

What I want to do is make the links open a new browser window. I cannot seem to find in the templates or phrases where these links are set. Can somebody please tell me how to make a modification to this so I can just add "target='_blank'" to these links?

This footer cannot be changed from its current form; I can only move it around for you. Branding free is available however.

Originally Posted by jojo77

I found how to turn of loans but now I have 2 new questions:

1) Is negative awards working yet? Last time I asked Dark said it was turned off for the last release.

2) Where is the log of all member transactions? I can't seem to find that anywhere.

Thanks for the help.

1) all negation awards are working except for post/thread awards. Those do nothing.

2) You can use the moderate donations/award link in the acp to see all of that, or if you have the usergroup permission to view all user's transaction logs, a Check link will show up next to users' account amounts to take you to their specific log

Originally Posted by Scarface Claw

The release notes mentions that VBC can be used in conjunction with other mods, does anyone know of such mods?

On my site is a list of some addons that I have to integrate with other popular hacks. There are more that I generally dont track which you can just use a setting within that hack to make it use credits (for example the casino)

[sdavis2702]

Everything works but I can not see credits in the postbit... I have been trying to figure out why for a while now. Any help?

[Darkwaltz4]

Make sure...

-you are looking at a style which you successfully applied the template edits to
-the global display options are set to everyone, or you belong to a group that can see private credits if set to private
-you and the person you are looking at dont belong to a group set as blocked from vbcredits
-the group the person you are looking at isnt set to hide credit totals
-the forum you are in isnt set to hide credit totals

[sdavis2702]

Seriously man... don't pay me any attention. I have installed maybe 40 hacks in the last 2 months and every one of them have gone somewhat smooth until now. I somehow managed to neglect all 14 template edits haha. Now that I think back I had to leave and I was supposed to remember to come back and do it. I didn't. I thought I did though... ugh.

Sorry man it's all working now. Thanks alot for a great job!!!

[jojo77]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

1) all negation awards are working except for post/thread awards. Those do nothing.

2) You can use the moderate donations/award link in the acp to see all of that, or if you have the usergroup permission to view all user's transaction logs, a Check link will show up next to users' account amounts to take you to their specific log

1) so if I delete posts and threads that are irrelevant, it won't deduct their points? that's too bad.

2) with logs, I was hoping there was a page where you can see all logs from all members and not a specific member. Maybe another addition in the future?

thanks for you help.

[Darkwaltz4]

1) Yes, for now until 1.4 final when that will be restored

2) Thats why I offered that you check out that ACP link which has all of the transactions between all members in one place. It will be expanded in the future in the next major release of vbcredits after 1.4 final

[njoker555]

i was just looking over some of the templates postbit sections and profile and it seems that EVERYONE can use the "award" feature for some reason and they are able to award any one they want, i am just lucky I was the one to figure out out

help on how i can make it so only admins can award is appreciated! i can swear i saw this option before somewhere but i can't remember any more

thanks!

[Raptor]

apologies if this has already been answered...

upgraded to v1.4 rc2 on vb3.7.1 - how can I now manually award cash for a post and it displays text below the post that they have been given X cash by X user - i dont see that option any more (was on vb3.6.4 and v1.4 rc1 before)

Thanks

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by njoker555

i was just looking over some of the templates postbit sections and profile and it seems that EVERYONE can use the "award" feature for some reason and they are able to award any one they want, i am just lucky I was the one to figure out out

help on how i can make it so only admins can award is appreciated! i can swear i saw this option before somewhere but i can't remember any more

thanks!

Originally Posted by Raptor

apologies if this has already been answered...

upgraded to v1.4 rc2 on vb3.7.1 - how can I now manually award cash for a post and it displays text below the post that they have been given X cash by X user - i dont see that option any more (was on vb3.6.4 and v1.4 rc1 before)

Thanks

The answer is related to both of you.

The post award system is what you are looking for to award posts directly on threads. In the usergroup options there is a section for each group to set limits for the power to award credits out of thin air. Using a value of 0 in any limit will restrict access completely, or use -1 to make one of the limits be ignored (and -1 for all 4 for unlimited use). I recommend that unlimited be given to trusted groups only such as admin, and should you choose to grant it for anyone else, think carefully about the limits you want to impose or it will get out of hand very quickly. In the specialty settings of vbcredits is the option to publicly display the post awards under the respective posts.

[Raptor]

Thanks for the reply

However I already have the post awards set to -1 (in fact changes not made since upgrade) and I still cant see any options for awarding posts ?