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!

[SavvyPirates]

Originally Posted by Red-Devil

Just a quickie, ive read thru this thread but cant find the answer, and the support forum seems offline.

Question.

When using the award system via posts, you get a box appears and it states (amount available xx)

What i want to know is where is the available amount defined and can this be manually set, as in the screen shot shows available 30,010 credits.



Ive searched thru the settings but cant find the setting, any help appreciated.

Just to add this amount goes down and stays at 10 which i need it to be higher or unlimited.

That number is likely from what they call the board's "Central Account". I looked around on vbCredits before they shut down and the answer is that you cannot see or edit this amount. All post awards (and I think other awards for that matter) come from this account. The amount in the account is replenished by the taxes on drawing winnings and any service fees on donations, bank transfers, etc.

If you don't want to use the central account (I don't), then you can do that. Go to the adminCP > vBCredits > Configure Specialty Awards > Spend Post Award System From Central Account and select "No"

Good Luck!

[CardMafia]

I'm using vB 3.7, who can recommend the best shop mod that will work with vBCredits? My site's members are getting anxious to spend their credits

[baophong]

how to increase the maximum saving credits? i dont know

[Digital Jedi]

Guys, remember that for the time being vBCredits.com says you have to direct support questions to support@vbcredits.com, as long their genuine support questions.

Originally Posted by CardMafia

I'm using vB 3.7, who can recommend the best shop mod that will work with vBCredits? My site's members are getting anxious to spend their credits

The shop mod is under development. But vBCredits can be integrated with:

Living Avatars
ibProArcade
Name That Tune

And a handful of other modifications here on vB.org.

[Darkwaltz4]

sorry for my extended absense everyone. I've been busy with my regular job, preparing for the new baby which is due in about 3 weeks, and the large custom job which I posted about 2 months ago. If you all remember, I said vBCommerce's completion would be part of that job, and that I am under contract to finish it up in 3 months since that announcement. It's been 2 months, and vBCommerce is for the most part done, just needs the generalizing touches (right now it is in the form used for the custom job). Right now I am finishing up that job (there was much more to it than vBCommerce ) and then will get to releasing vBCommerce.

Thanks everyone for your patience! I'm aware its been a year, I have so much stuff backlogged that I couldnt begin to tell you about it, and Im sure you're sick of PixelFX's spiel about it You are welcome to try out any of the similar stuff in the meantime if you are sick of waiting - I will alert everyone about the release when it is ready so you are free to check it over and see if you want to switch back.

We closed the site temporarily as I haven't gotten a chance to go through the messages yet, and everyone was getting too antsy. I will open it after I get through the messages, although you could send serious support requests here or to my numerous contact methods on my profile. It is by no means a sign that we are closing for good, in case you were thinking that. Actually, both PixelFX and I are looking to expand more through it as there is so much promise with just vBCredits.

Thank you Digital Jedi and the couple other of you for getting to the questions I have missed! Thanks, and welcome to those of you who are installing vBCredits for the first time. Despite being RC2, vBCredits 1.4 is for the most part stable - the only reason it is not in the final form is due to the thread/post negation awards being removed for the time being. Other than that is some extremely trivial bugs, so go ahead and try it if you are waiting for the final version.

I'm going to now go through and answer the outstanding posts from the last week or so

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by manutdvn

When I tried to create a bet, It gave me a blank page.

Originally Posted by manutdvn

I got another problem. I installed integrated addon with vbookie, but it does not work. Then I created a thread to check, stick on Yes, post a vBookie Event with this thread, then clicked on create thread, nothing appears. It does not move to next page that I can set odd.

I am current with 3.7.0.

Do you guys how to fix this?

Thank you.

Unfortunately, those are problems specific to vBookie, and I cant give support for its use (only for integrating with vBCredits)

Originally Posted by Blacura

i GOT this MARKED AS INSTALLED I LOVE THIS PRODUCT ITS MADE EVERYONE ON MY SITE MORE ACTIVE.. now here is my problem. i was trying to tweak it a lil and i screwed up and gave everyone a ton of credits.. how do i get it baclk to normal credits.. they went from 1000 to 52000 credits
Now its all whacked. it deleted everyones credits and they are pissed..

helppppppppppppppppppp

Use the mass credit updater in the acp under the vBCredits menu. You can use it to recalculate everyone's credits or set everyone back to 0. If you need help filling out the menu please PM me (it should be fairly obvious). If your member's credits fluctuate wildly this might be because you gave full rein of the post award system to your regular members, generally if they have amounts with several dozen places.. otherwise its probably just bad settings, which I can go through for you if you PM me an admin login.

Originally Posted by RobbieZ

Installed

K.. I have one question/problem..

In the Manage Forum Overides.. I want to turn off a forum.. ie. I dont want people earning credit replying to threads in the forum game section.

What do i put in the .. Overide Value.. I dont understand this part..

Thankyou..

You can put 0 for the override value to disable the earning of that particular award, in a particular forum, for a particular usergroup

Originally Posted by Internetcafe

I've been using the raffle and lottery for a couple of weeks and then turned it off 'cos members have no where to spend their points.
I turned them back on and purchase options / boxes have disappeared !?

Did you also set the drawing date to something in the future? Does their usergroup have a nonzero ticket limit? Did you exclude your regular group from it in the drawing settings?

[Deimos]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

You can put 0 for the override value to disable the earning of that particular award, in a particular forum, for a particular usergroup

Will you guys be updating this paticular section so it checks for forums which are marked as "No post counts"?
Because if you setup a bunch of overrides for a large amount of forums, it slows the forums down to a crawl.

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by Deimos

Has anyone had problems with server load when using this addon?
Or rather, when adding many forums to the "Forum override" area?
I set a largeish number of forums to give no credits, to all staff and registered posters and my CPU/Memory usage on the server went sky high
The load time for my forum went from an average 0.5-1 second per page, to 4-7ish seconds per page.

Is this still occuring? I have seen vBCredits installed on some big-boards and never had this kind of thing reported - in fact I developed a unique plugin optimizing thing to greatly reduce even the server slowdowns on sites that have multitudes of hacks installed (seen on a site with 250+ hacks installed). Are you certain vBCredits is the culprit (disabling the hack and seeing if it goes away, and then turning back on to see if it always comes back)? Are only certain actions doing this or is everywhere doing anything seeing an increase?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=173894

Originally Posted by butler312

I've got it working with ibproarcade, but there is one minor issue. For the arcade pass it says that if members have it they still have to pay if they want the jackpot, but I see no option to go ahead and pay instead of using the pass.

Also, milla da killa, how did you get vbookie working with 3.7? I thought it says its not compatible?

When a user has purchased the pass there should be another link to pay full price pretty obviously. If not then you skipped an installation step, probably the one to upload the file that comes with the addon zip (not just the edited files)

Originally Posted by org knopper

Its simple but how do i changethe name "credits" to one of my choice ?

You can search for the EXACT phrase "credits" in your phrase manager and change the phrase it finds, or click the link in the vBCredits global settings (the very first option has it) and change it through that way, which goes to the same thing.

Originally Posted by AuroraStorm

I agree 100% with you. Sometimes the eyes are bigger than the stomach and you can't deliver. It happens. If they're working out the kinks and bugs, I'd rather they do that than release it and it destroys forums...

Well, somebody will come along with the next big thing...I'll patiently wait.

*cough* that happened a lot.

Originally Posted by flypaper

If you saw dark's post on vbcredits, someone is bankrolling this whole thing now. I'm hoping that its actually Jelsoft that is bankrolling them and this is gonna be in 4.0. Anyone wanna buy a tinfoil hat?

lol, not jelsoft, though one can dream... even if i were to work for them, i would **not** want vbcredits (or any derivative addon) to be included with vbulletin - that stuff is MINE!

[Deimos]

Aye it was when I last checked.

When I setup all the forums and usergroups I don't want credits counted for and save, the actuall page where you edit forum overrides then takes AGES to load, because there's so many usergroups/forums.

The forum itself slows to a crawl

...oh man, I just enabled it again and it's not doing it
Although I have moved servers since, hehe
Previously I was running Php in FastCGI mode, I Wonder if that's why? heh

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Is this still occuring? I have seen vBCredits installed on some big-boards and never had this kind of thing reported - in fact I developed a unique plugin optimizing thing to greatly reduce even the server slowdowns on sites that have multitudes of hacks installed (seen on a site with 250+ hacks installed). Are you certain vBCredits is the culprit (disabling the hack and seeing if it goes away, and then turning back on to see if it always comes back)? Are only certain actions doing this or is everywhere doing anything seeing an increase?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=173894

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by Lustikus

hi,

i got also the Problem with the Bitfield Collision: prefixrequired = credits_cantearn stuff, here some links in the thread but the Site went down oder shut down or whatever, tried to delete and/or upload the new version of the bitfield_credits.xml file.... nothing changes....

so, can somebody write down here in the thread how to fix this ?

would be very very nice !

thanks

Did you have RC1 or RC2 installed on vB3.6 prior to upgrading to vB3.7? If RC1, the instructions are in the zip for RC2. If RC2, then download the zip from this thread. Follow the instructions for installation (dont skip steps or do them out of order!). When you do the template edits some may already have been done, so just skip those as you come across them. Should do the trick If not contact me via PM.

Originally Posted by sdfaheem

is this something like NamePro's cash system?

vBCredits includes all the features and more of the cash system they are using (uCash)

Originally Posted by baophong

how to show the banking function? i dont know how to do that? just showed the donate function, not loan, not saving?

who can tell me how? pleaz. THanks a lot

Originally Posted by baophong

how to increase the maximum saving credits? i dont know

Make sure that usergroup has nonzero maximum savings and loans in the usergroup settings. Choose carefully the maximum loans or they will get out of hand. Also check the global vBCredits bank settings to make sure you dont have any extreme requirements to access the bank (like a lot of posts, days registered, or reputation)

Originally Posted by bojomojo

I have a problem, i installed vbcredits 1.4 RC2, but when I donate members doesnt recieve the points

thanks

Do you have donation moderation enabled for that usergroup? If so, you will find the donations in the queue in the Moderate Donations / Awards link in the vBCredits menu in the acp, and you can process them there.

Originally Posted by Deimos

Will you guys be updating this paticular section so it checks for forums which are marked as "No post counts"?
Because if you setup a bunch of overrides for a large amount of forums, it slows the forums down to a crawl.

It used to be tied to auto disabled when no post counts - but some people want to earn credits but not post count, and vice versa. Using the override system you could have it any way you want. Does it slow down the forums themselves or just the forum override page (which is in bad need of some grouping/pagination I admit). I have some big changes planned for vBCredits 2.0, but keeping myself from working on it as I have other more important addons to work on first