Major Additions - [DBTech] vBCredits II Deluxe

Darkwaltz4 & DragonByte Technologies are proud to present the much anticipated and long awaited [DBTech] vBCredits II Deluxe

Why [DBTech] vBCredits II Deluxe?

vBCredits II Deluxe is the evolution of the points hack that thousands of vBulletin owners have only been dreaming of. Completely rewritten to incorporate three years of requests and improvements, vBCredits II Deluxe is the pinnacle of simplicity and power for casual activity and serious ecommerce engines alike!

vBCredits II Deluxe is the most advanced and feature rich points system ever created. It is the only points system produced by the creator and coder of vBCredits v1-1.4 ? accept no substitutes from impostors.

Why vBCredits II Deluxe is an evolution of the typical points hack of the last decade

The typical points hack installs a standard column to your user table. You are stuck with it, but if you are lucky you can make it switch entirely to a different one.

While vBC2D installs a standard currency, you are free to remove it, and quickly integrate many third party currencies without any technical knowledge. The whole thing is made to be working with multiple currencies especially when they need to work together and the third parties didn't put in a way for that.

The typical points hack installs a couple actions with hardly any way to disable, modify, or add on to them. How they work is different every time.

vBC2D is built around a modular display and action system so actions come in standard formats with standard attributes. They are easy to break off or install more without bothering the main hack for updates. The standardization allows for global features to be available without the need for repeated coding, as well as exposing an API for third parties - all encouraging widespread support. It also means that no matter who made your third party actionset, the settings will automatically be consistent and support all features.

The typical points hack will just blindly add points to user accounts, leaving abuse wide open.

vBC2D records every single transaction and comes with many powerful anti fraud techniques to prevent abuse and limit their effectiveness. Not only are there several ways to qualify user actions, but also ways of obfuscating the system so it is difficult for users to come up with ways to game the system.

The typical points hack is only for earning.

vBC2D supports charging as well as earning for all actions, making the need for a companion shop optional.

The typical points hack is a cryptic mess of settings and math.

vBC2D has been organized in a linear fashion where all related items are in exactly one place. All options are fully explained and you are only ever shown what is relevant. Even advanced and uncommon settings will not be in your way - unless you specifically want to use them. The system holds your hand and it is easy to see exactly what your settings have done and quickly revert them if needed.

The typical points hack gets bloated once you've set up many options.

vBC2D was written in a way to be scalable yet maintain all of its features. A careful watch over database and code was kept to ensure the least amount of impact at all times. So far three big boards have used vBC2D for several months and reported no change in their performance.

The typical points hack is just the same old thing every few months.

vBCredits 1 was the typical points hack, and I had three years of customer support and requests to know what works and what didn't, and what everyone had wished points hacks would do but it just wasn't happening. Finally, vBC2D was written from the ground up and every single request was included in a unified, ultimate package.

Complete Feature List

vBCredits Core:
Pro-only features in red

• Currencies
  • Unlimited concurrent currencies
  • So far ~20 third party currencies detected
  • Wizard for importing found or custom currencies
  • Wizard for transferring found or custom currencies
  • Set rounding and display order
  • Handling for negative and usergroup viewing permissions
  • Limit maximum earned over any timespan
  • Set relative value and transfer to/from permissions
• Users
  • Target any subset for processing, paginated
  • Directly modify amounts and earn/spend permissions
  • Alter mass amounts with custom formulas based on several stats
  • User links to individual transaction log
  • Recalculate transactions
    • Target any actions over any timespan
    • Prune existing transactions
      • Optional reversal
      • Optional target all time / actions
• Displays - Modular (with actionsets)
  • Uses template hooks and individual templates
  • Set currencies to display
  • Create additional combination field
  • One click enable/disable
• Actions - Modular (with actionsets)
  • Supports categories
  • Supports multipliers
    • Includes standardized size option
  • Supports individual forums
  • Supports recalculation
  • Supports reversals
  • Supports verification links
  • Supports ownership entities
  • Supports cancelation
  • Individual applicable settings
• Events
  • Link action with currency
  • Specify applicable usergroups
  • Charge for any action
    • Select participant for currency actions
  • Best scenario per currency chosen for user
  • Set base amount with optional random addition
  • Send email or PM alerts
    
  • Earn for any action
    • Supports moderation
    • Supports award delay
    • Supports award skipping
    • Limit maximum awarded over any timespan
  • Mix earn / charge currencies on same action
    • Earning discarded if charging fails
  • For applicable actions
    • Specify applicable forums
    • Specify applicable ownership
    • Set reversal amount
    • Set per multiplier and specify max / min bounds
      • Exclude multiplier amount
      • Exclude full amount
      • Stop action
  • One click enable/disable or global switch
• Transactions
  • All events recorded and queued for performance
    • Optional realtime mode
  • Single transaction processed per pageload
    • Optional cron for smaller sites
    • Update Counters function
  • Specify any paginated timespan
  • Drill down by action or user
    • User view allows earn / spend permission and direct amount change
  • Overall totals with comparisons and bar graphs
    • Groupable by usergroup, forum, and/or action
  • Mass moderate or remove, editable notes
• Administrative
  • Admin permissions
  • Intelligent forms display only relevant functions
  • Uncommon or technical features under Advanced buttons
  • Modular API for free third party use
• Public
  • Transaction log, similar to admin version
    • Allow groups to see other users or everyone
  • Richest users for each currency
  • Universal popup panel for seamless currency transfers
    • User suggest and intelligent selections

vBulletin Actionset:

• Displays
  • Dropdown on secondary row in navbar
  • On postbit under post count
  • On profile in section on about me tab
  • Sortable column on memberlist
• Actions
  • Give / Get Reputation
  • Give / Get Infraction
  • Posting / having latest reply
  • Posting in old thread
  • Threads / your threads responded to
  • Thread getting stickied
  • Tagging
  • Viewing threads / having yours viewed
  • Befriending users
  • Give / Get visitor messages
  • Sending PMs
  • Give / Get referrals
  • Entering usergroups
  • Visiting profiles / having yours viewed
  • Polls / voting
  • Rating threads / having yours rated
  • Album images
  • Upload / download attachments
  • Calendar events
  • Adding profile picture / filling out custom fields
  • Someone downloading your attachments
  • Static intervals (paychecks)
  • Birthday
  • General activity on intervals
  • Creating / joining social groups
  • Gaining member to your social group
  • Starting discussion / someone starting discussion in your social group
  • Group discussion post / someone posting in your group discussion

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[Daniel Thomas]

Okay...I've looked all over and can't find anything.

It won't let me transfer Credits from Savings into the Regular Credits account. How do you transfer your credits? Every time I try to it says "You cannot transfer the same currency to yourself"

I've got a billion credits that I can't spend since I can't transfer it over.

[kesandal]

Hello,

is there an "how-to" for displaying the current credits in the nav-bar?

Like here described for vb 3.8
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=254962

Regards
Kesandal

[creppello]

On the Transactions page, the two drop down boxes, one for currencies one for actions. Where are the setting for text color and background color when making a selection?

During the drop down phase, my background is black, and the un-highlighted text is black.

[rcwild]

Editing my original post to ask a series of questions now that I have played around with this mod.

Until a few days ago we were using vBulletin v3.8. We had the old version of vBCredits, Post Thank You Hack and vBCredits with Post Thank You Hack. Now that we have upgraded to vBulletin v4.1.2, I have to upgrade a bunch of modes. Installed vBCredits II Deluxe and is running fine. Installed your Advanced Post Thanks Lite, in part because the description mentioned importing thanks from Post Thank You Hack. I now understand that is only available in the pro version. No problem. I certainly don't mind paying for your work. Visiting your site, I also looked at vBActivity because it integrates with your Advanced Post Thanks.

Now I need some clarification and advice so I can decide which combination of products to purchase.

1. I like vBCredits because it recognized credits our members earned before the upgrade.
2. It appears that vBActivity awards points for blog entries/comments. Can vBCredits?
3. Can vBCredits integrate with your post thank you mod?
4. Our members use their vBCredit points to pay other members, buy merchandise, etc. Does vBActivity allow the same earn-spend function or does it only award points?
5. With the old version of vBCredits we were able to run an occasional raffle with points. I don't see that function in the new vBCredits. Is this still possible? If so, how?
6. In vBCredits, how does one transfer points to savings and visa versa?

Thank you in advance for your reply.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by rcwild

Editing my original post to ask a series of questions now that I have played around with this mod.

Until a few days ago we were using vBulletin v3.8. We had the old version of vBCredits, Post Thank You Hack and vBCredits with Post Thank You Hack. Now that we have upgraded to vBulletin v4.1.2, I have to upgrade a bunch of modes. Installed vBCredits II Deluxe and is running fine. Installed your Advanced Post Thanks Lite, in part because the description mentioned importing thanks from Post Thank You Hack. I now understand that is only available in the pro version. No problem. I certainly don't mind paying for your work. Visiting your site, I also looked at vBActivity because it integrates with your Advanced Post Thanks.

Now I need some clarification and advice so I can decide which combination of products to purchase.

1. I like vBCredits because it recognized credits our members earned before the upgrade.
2. It appears that vBActivity awards points for blog entries/comments. Can vBCredits?
3. Can vBCredits integrate with your post thank you mod?
4. Our members use their vBCredit points to pay other members, buy merchandise, etc. Does vBActivity allow the same earn-spend function or does it only award points?
5. With the old version of vBCredits we were able to run an occasional raffle with points. I don't see that function in the new vBCredits. Is this still possible? If so, how?
6. In vBCredits, how does one transfer points to savings and visa versa?

Thank you in advance for your reply.

I'll poke John over to answer these for you, sorry about the delay. Please bear in mind that DBTech is your best bet for fastest response times to questions and/or support =)

Iain

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by Wifey

I'm helping code a Harry Potter site after they upgraded to 4.0. Before with this hack in vB3.x, we were able to have on the welcome panel the points standings for the four houses. We accomplished this by creating a user for each of the four houses - Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, etc. Anytime a staff member would donate to a member in each house, they would turn around and donate the exact same amount to the "house" account, so a running tally could be kept of how many points each house was earning. So, for example on the welcome panel it would say:

Gryffindor : XX points
Hufflepuff: XX points

and so forth and so on. I would like to add this back and have it auto update, instead of having to go into the welcome panel (the dbtech one, I might add - fab, by the way) and manipulate it manually every time an update is made. To accomplish this, in the welcome panel coding, what would my code be? In other words, here's my code:

<smallfont><b><font color="crimson">Gryffindor</font>:</b> WHAT CODE GOES HERE?</smallfont>

Thank you in advance!!

Still looking for an answer to this.

Addtitionally, the points column is NOT showing up on our member list. Any idea why?

and yes, I have inserted the
{vb:raw template_hook.memberlist_resultsbit} in the memberlist_resultsbit template. It still shows up funny on the members page - all the places where the points should be are just dead link boxes that when you click on them take you to a 404 page.

Displays for any user's currency info require code backing them, which is why you cannot create new ones unless debug mode is enabled. Doing that automatically would require that, as there are no global variables for inserting in any old template. What did you used to have there to accomplish that?

Did you insert the resultsbit html above the </tr> or somewhere else?

Originally Posted by reddyink

Hello, Can we set credits by threads/posts per forum. I would like to provide X credits for posting a thread in a forum-x, and y credits for posting a thread in forum-y.

How do I do that? Thanks.

Yes, you can do that by selecting the forums that apply to a specific event. Additional events can target different sets of forums to do different things, such as charge them vs earning.

Originally Posted by imcool2121

Suppose if i want to run the credit or point system only for a special usergroup, not for all registered members, how will i do that ?

You can either carefully setup your events to always select only those usergroups, or disable usergroups with a permission setting.

Originally Posted by MrBeanzy

Hi there,

I'm looking at a friends site who used vBCredits, i'm looking to get it myself at the moment.

I just wondered if there are actual pages for code redemption or credit purchases? As the only method i could see was to access the options viar the nav bar in a drop down?

I'm just asking as i wanted to make a bit more of a feature of the point redemtion or point puchase. Or would it be easy to take code from the souce and imbed it on different pages on my site?

Thanks, Paul.

You can create links with the code in them that will perform the same redemption process, for you to post wherever you want. Instructions are in the redemption manager (pro only)

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by MuseFS

Hello!
First of all, this is a great mod! Thank you

I wanted to know if I can integrate "DB-Tech Post Thanks" to credits count of vbCredits? I mean, when you say "thanks", the user who recieves the thanks gets credits. And also, how can I do the same with vbulletin built in reputation system?

Cheers!

Originally Posted by reddyink

Is there a CMS widget for VBCredits?

Currently neither are implemented yet, sorry..

Originally Posted by reddyink

Until the bug is fixed, assign -10 points for "Thread Negation Amount". That way system will give 10 points and take out 10 points providing with 0 points as a result.

That is indeed what you are expected to do, as that is deliberate behavior and not a bug.

Originally Posted by TNERatedEdge

how do you make it so users do not get posts in threads they start?

In your post event, show advanced options and you will be an option for that specifically.

Originally Posted by Daniel Thomas

Okay...I've looked all over and can't find anything.

It won't let me transfer Credits from Savings into the Regular Credits account. How do you transfer your credits? Every time I try to it says "You cannot transfer the same currency to yourself"

I've got a billion credits that I can't spend since I can't transfer it over.

I am assuming you already have both currencies setup in vbcredits. You need to have a Transfer event setup for both currencies as well, and on the currency popup on the forums, you then choose the from and to accounts, and it should perform the transfer.

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by kesandal

Hello,

is there an "how-to" for displaying the current credits in the nav-bar?

Like here described for vb 3.8
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=254962

Regards
Kesandal

Following that, instead of adding a new display (which requires code) you can modify the existing Navbar display.

Originally Posted by creppello

On the Transactions page, the two drop down boxes, one for currencies one for actions. Where are the setting for text color and background color when making a selection?

During the drop down phase, my background is black, and the un-highlighted text is black.

I am not doing any special output manipulation other than standard system calls. The theme applied is according to what you installed, and you will probably find this issue elsewhere. Either way, its up to whoever designed it to make it work properly...

Originally Posted by rcwild

Editing my original post to ask a series of questions now that I have played around with this mod.

Until a few days ago we were using vBulletin v3.8. We had the old version of vBCredits, Post Thank You Hack and vBCredits with Post Thank You Hack. Now that we have upgraded to vBulletin v4.1.2, I have to upgrade a bunch of modes. Installed vBCredits II Deluxe and is running fine. Installed your Advanced Post Thanks Lite, in part because the description mentioned importing thanks from Post Thank You Hack. I now understand that is only available in the pro version. No problem. I certainly don't mind paying for your work. Visiting your site, I also looked at vBActivity because it integrates with your Advanced Post Thanks.

Now I need some clarification and advice so I can decide which combination of products to purchase.

1. I like vBCredits because it recognized credits our members earned before the upgrade.
2. It appears that vBActivity awards points for blog entries/comments. Can vBCredits?
3. Can vBCredits integrate with your post thank you mod?
4. Our members use their vBCredit points to pay other members, buy merchandise, etc. Does vBActivity allow the same earn-spend function or does it only award points?
5. With the old version of vBCredits we were able to run an occasional raffle with points. I don't see that function in the new vBCredits. Is this still possible? If so, how?
6. In vBCredits, how does one transfer points to savings and visa versa?

Thank you in advance for your reply.

vBActivity doesn't deal with spending, but take a look into vBShop as all 3 addons can work together. The points aspect in vBActivity was really just exposing the internal measurement mechanism.

Unfortunately, blog/thanks integration has not been completed yet, and the lottery/bank was removed due to lack of use (and nobody until now has even really mentioning it being missed...)

See previous post on explanation for transfers.

[8thos]

Hey DarkWaltz have you made a v3arcade or vbexperience plug in yet or do you know of any?

[BBF]

how can i disable the multipliers?