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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We appreciate the support!

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Professional version available @ www.DragonByte-Tech.com/forum
Priority support for Lite version is handled at the Developers Website.

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[gamerzhut]

Tagged for future installation

[Kolektor]

there's two xml's inside the XML folder. for what is the other?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Kolektor

there's two xml's inside the XML folder. for what is the other?

The other XML is the actionset

iain

[kardus]

EDIT: not fixed, nevermind. The Navbar/memberlist displays are are still what is screwing up my layout.

[DJ XtAzY]

Wow this is what i call a vbplaza replacement! HOWEVER, i do wish that it came with a shop. I like the concept of vplaza where it has items that can change user's permission. Say if this member dont have permission have a signature, etc, then he can use his points to buy an item in the shop that allows him to use signatures, etc.

And i'm a bit confused on which vbcredits to installed. Both vbcredits from PixelFX and DBTech released vbc II.

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by Yellow Slider

Where is the donation? does if have admin donation \ fees? (I meant donation of credits and not donate in paypal or something).

extrapolated in the list. new to my version only is the special currency popup. Anywhere on your site that credits are displayed you can click on the number to get a popup for quickly donating to that user and even to different currencies. You can transfer currencies to yourself this way too, and special usergroups can even use the popup for directly adjusting target users

Originally Posted by merk_aus

nice mod as usual it's a shame i can't use it because john (darkwaltz4) claims it is issues with my dedicated server although every other mod works fine.

Actually, your issue was with my license system - which is 100% not involved here. Again, something unique to my version. This version is also 100% not encrypted - and this goes for pro too.

Originally Posted by kardus

Installing this /breaks/ the current theme when users are logged in. Example:

https://files.dropbox.com/u/161376/loggedin.png
https://files.dropbox.com/u/161376/loggedout.png

I tried disabling all the displays which fixes most of the layout (other subtleties such as drop down menus etc. are still messed up). Disabling the product is the only way to get things working.

As you can see from the logout prompt, it seems to be using pieces/colours of perhaps the default theme? It seems to be overriding parts of the theme I am using. There is also this error on the display page:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/admincp/credits_admin.php on line 1114

Thanks for reporting these. Seems editing and saving each display makes the error go away, and I might have accidentally left the vb3.8 stylesheet in there which conflicts with vb4 style, so as a temp fix remove it from the credits_home and credits_popup templates.

Originally Posted by XtAzY

Wow this is what i call a vbplaza replacement! HOWEVER, i do wish that it came with a shop. I like the concept of vplaza where it has items that can change user's permission. Say if this member dont have permission have a signature, etc, then he can use his points to buy an item in the shop that allows him to use signatures, etc.

And i'm a bit confused on which vbcredits to installed. Both vbcredits from PixelFX and DBTech released vbc II.

We are rapidly developing a store addon for customizing usernames and such, although I dont think I will be the one making it.

I was midway through development of this addon when I had a falling out with pixelfx. He is attempting to continue development with his own team right now, while I have completed it and released it with my new home - dragonbyte tech. Again, I wrote everything from scratch here, and the vast majority of what vbcredits.com is releasing. I apologize for the confusion; pixelfx did not wish to join me in my move to dbt, and frankly I have no idea why he didnt assemble the team in the first place - thats entirely why i felt i needed to leave.

[Veer]

I too wish that it came with a shop including gifts items same like vBPlaza does.

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by Veer

I too wish that it came with a shop including gifts items same like vBPlaza does.

The good news is that they are making a shop I can't wait for it either ^^

[Kolektor]

any news when a 3.8.x version will come out?

by the way, your site is still pointing to vbcredits.com

[dcuellar]

Man oh man, where do I begin? First of all, Dark, you are a great coder. You have great ideas and come up with one of a kind mods.

Now that I got that out of the way I must say that I m extremely dissapointed with the development of this mod. I was a long time member of vbcredits.com and the move from 3.8 -> 4.0 was the biggest mistake I could have made. I was using an add-on called content merchants which was fantastic for hiding links, but once I upgraded it caused me to lose all of my links. Instead I was left with random numbers which are useless and in turn rendered that forum useless. The problem, as if that wasn't enough, was that I lost out on 80% of my traffic!

I know it's my fault for upgrading, but seriously? Does it take this long? Now I'm a little urked that you could come up with a version of vBCredits II so soon after your departure from pixelfx.

Here's a question for you. How soon before I can get my forum back? I need content merchants.