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!

[MikalMirkas]

If this was compatible with vBExperience
I would be like
BEST.
MOD.
EVER.

[Darkwaltz4]

compatible in what way?

[RollaJedi]

it would be nice to be able to integrate vbcredits with vbexperience so that VBE's points can be turned into VBC's credits. Any idea if this is possible now or later?

[dynamite]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

I am putting together the plans for vBCredits 2.0 which will be released for vB4 (once I get access to it).

What about vbCommerce also?

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by RollaJedi

it would be nice to be able to integrate vbcredits with vbexperience so that VBE's points can be turned into VBC's credits. Any idea if this is possible now or later?

unless vbexp has a setting to change the points field then no. vbcredits 2 is being built to enable hooking into any existing points fields including that one, whether the target addons have settings for it or not.

Originally Posted by dynamite

What about vbCommerce also?

thats a given! but it would rely on the new structure of vbcredits 2

[rollerman]

Downloaded and installed. Installation went like a charm. Installation instructions in the readme were terrific, especially for a n0ob like me who doesn't really know what he's doing. That's very much appreciated. :up:


What I can't seem to find in this thread or at vBcredits.com is some sort of primer on how to set up credits (dollars in my case). I'm not really understanding the math between these things. This is just Monopoly money for my site; no actual commerce is going on here, but I don't want to screw it up and have to obliterate everyone's accounts because I screwed up and wound up giving everyone $1,000,000 per post or something.


Is there any sort of beginners' guide or something like that to get me started?

Thanks.

[zombietom]

anything special i need to do if i upgrade my forums from 3.7 to 3.8 to insure i do not lose any of my vbcredits stats or anything?

thanks in advance

[TheChaosFactor]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Congrats! I am putting together the plans for vBCredits 2.0 which will be released for vB4 (once I get access to it).

Yay!!!! That is lovely news.... but you forgot to answer my post even though you quoted it.

[rollerman]

OK, I'm trying to get this set up today, but when I go to my userCP and click on "Dollars and donations" or "Banking and loans" I get a 404 error.

Any help? I can't seem to get anywhere with the vBcredits.com board because I never got my registrastion e-mail so I'm permission-less for most of the threads there.

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by rollerman

Downloaded and installed. Installation went like a charm. Installation instructions in the readme were terrific, especially for a n0ob like me who doesn't really know what he's doing. That's very much appreciated. :up:


What I can't seem to find in this thread or at vBcredits.com is some sort of primer on how to set up credits (dollars in my case). I'm not really understanding the math between these things. This is just Monopoly money for my site; no actual commerce is going on here, but I don't want to screw it up and have to obliterate everyone's accounts because I screwed up and wound up giving everyone $1,000,000 per post or something.

Is there any sort of beginners' guide or something like that to get me started?

Thanks.

all of the settings describe the functions that arent self explanatory, however the basics of vbcredits is simply set up the awards in the usergroup settings for each action - there are defaults so you can get an idea for your own scale. once you give it a try and there are specific features you dont understand, just ask and i will be more detailed for them.

Originally Posted by zombietom

anything special i need to do if i upgrade my forums from 3.7 to 3.8 to insure i do not lose any of my vbcredits stats or anything?

thanks in advance

you dont need to do anything for vbcredits when upgrading vb3.7 to vb3.8

Originally Posted by TheChaosFactor

Yay!!!! That is lovely news.... but you forgot to answer my post even though you quoted it.

whoops! as you can guess i quote a bunch of posts at once and answer them in one reply... must have forgotten that one.

Originally Posted by TheChaosFactor

I've been looking through the files and there isn't a specific config, and I can't seem to figure out which variable(s) do the cash. Would you consider a paid request for a converter like you have for some of the other cash systems?

the file is (forum)/gameroom/settings.php
set $this->cashType to "credits"
then scroll down to the eight $this->bonuses settings, and put 0 for each (otherwise they will get awarded on top of your regular vbcredits awards)

unfortunately, due to the way the gameroom's settings are in this file, you will have to reapply these edits upon every update of the gameroom on your site.

Originally Posted by rollerman

OK, I'm trying to get this set up today, but when I go to my userCP and click on "Dollars and donations" or "Banking and loans" I get a 404 error.

Any help? I can't seem to get anywhere with the vBcredits.com board because I never got my registrastion e-mail so I'm permission-less for most of the threads there.

are you sure you uploaded the credits.php file to your server? if you missed that one you probably missed others. I have activated your account on my site; sorry for the inconvenience.