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!

[Seiyaboy]

I have heard this modification can be used with ibProArcade such as buying credits to play. Is there an integration file being uploaded somewhere that I might have missed? Thanks.

[AuroraStorm]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

I know you didnt, I was kind of sharing in your pain cause I know how it can get when it has so many. I am assuming the query worked?



While vBCommerce will be free, I dont believe it will adhere to the vborg release policy and so will not be released here at vborg. You know where to find more info o.o

Interesting...I'll install this today and go from there...

[PixelFx]

Originally Posted by Seiyaboy

I have heard this modification can be used with ibProArcade such as buying credits to play. Is there an integration file being uploaded somewhere that I might have missed? Thanks.

We have on our website a free addon for ibProArcade to intergrate the arcade with vbcredits. Our "cash conversion mod", allows people to buy credits with paypal. We have v3arcade intergration addon for vbcredits as well.

[snowlion]

I got this error when using mass credit updater to one user - id 7369(only one user has this error, it ok with others). He has 7110 post. sorry my bad english ^_^

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.3:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT post.pagetext, thread.firstpostid, (thread.postuserid = 7639) AS ownthreadpost FROM post AS post LEFT JOIN thread AS thread ON (post.threadid = thread.threadid) WHERE post.userid = 7639 AND post.visible = 1 AND thread.visible = 1;
MySQL Error   : Lost connection to MySQL server during query
Error Number  : 2013
Request Date  : Saturday, September 13th 2008 @ 03:50:47 AM
Error Date    : Saturday, September 13th 2008 @ 03:50:48 AM
Script        : http://bentinhyeu.info/diendan/admin...php?do=process
Referrer      : http://bentinhyeu.info/diendan/admin...php?do=updater
IP Address    : 125.234.131.15
Username      : kisibachda
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Seiyaboy]

I have a question. RIght now the modification is buggy to the fact that whenever members have credits on hand and another member send credits over, their credits on hand are reduced back to 0 plus the amount they recieved. Do you know if this is an error in the code of the modification itself or is it some kind of setting problems that I might have misconfigured?

[PixelFx]

what version of vbcredits are you using? we have version 1.4 RC2 released on our site, and I haven't had any issues with it.

[Seiyaboy]

Really? I am using 1.4 RC2 on my vb 3.7.3 board and it's having problems with keeping credits when someone transfers them over. I really dont know what is wrong. Probably because it's being overdone 'cause I also have ibproacrade and the thank system as well as both integrations for them to the vbcredits.

[realmr]

Integrating with thank you add-on gives some other way than the way I needed Actually, we don't want the thanked to get any credits when thanked we want the user who is thanking to get 1 or 2 credits, how can we do it ?

[fulviods]

I just installed this amazing system on my cars forum! My question is not a tecnical question and so i dont know if i can post it here. It s more a "political" question: My mod are afraid by this system, everyone think that there are many risks that the quality of the discussions will go down, and that there will be many people with the main goal of receiveng credits.

If I installed vbcredits, is to give gifts to people who have reach a certain amount of points, and as i wrote, its also my fear that credits will be used in a bad way. I told my mods that we just have to think about the best way to do that, to limit the possibility to loose the quality of the discussions.

So my message is more intended to know your experience, if there are tricks or rules that permit a good management of this product.

Sorry if my english is not perfect and hope that someone could help me in this way.

[SavvyPirates]

Originally Posted by fulviods

I just installed this amazing system on my cars forum! My question is not a tecnical question and so i dont know if i can post it here. It s more a "political" question: My mod are afraid by this system, everyone think that there are many risks that the quality of the discussions will go down, and that there will be many people with the main goal of receiveng credits.

If I installed vbcredits, is to give gifts to people who have reach a certain amount of points, and as i wrote, its also my fear that credits will be used in a bad way. I told my mods that we just have to think about the best way to do that, to limit the possibility to loose the quality of the discussions.

So my message is more intended to know your experience, if there are tricks or rules that permit a good management of this product.

Sorry if my english is not perfect and hope that someone could help me in this way.

You are always going to run that risk. Same risk if you award privileges based on post count.

With vBCredits, you can set it up so that if a post (or thread) gets deleted, it removes any credits previously earned. You can even set it up so that it not only removes that credits earned, but also impose a penalty. For example, if troublemaker posted spam and earned 20 credits and you delete that and impose a 50% penalty. Then they lose 30 credits by getting it deleted. If that happened regularly, people would learn quick not to post spam.

Another thing you can do is not award so much for simply making post, but rather have larger awards for getting your threads replied to. If a topic is not worth discussing, it won't get replies and that person won't earn credits, but if its a good discussion, then they'll earn a lot.

That said, we have not seen that problem at our board since vBCredits got installed. It has been business as usual as far as the quality of posts go.

Good Luck!!