Require X posts in the last Y hours to play games in the arcade

Require X posts in the last Y hours to play games in the arcade

by ~006

Let me start out by saying that I made this hack for the V3Arcade system. All credit for that hack goes to John. If you can think of any other pages that this limitation hack could be used for, let me know and I can code it.

I know ever since the V3Arcade was released, we all have been noticeing new members signing up only to spend time in the arcade. They may post once or twice, but for the most part they do not post. Instead they just suck your bandwidth. What can you do about this? Well, with this hack you can customize the number (x) posts required in the last (y) hours. This is all on a per usergroup basis.

There are other ways people have been doing this, such as base arcade access on postsperday. This is a bad way to do this because if somebody goes out of town for a week, their posts per day will suffer. Soon it becomes impossible to get your posts back to the minimum posts per day level. This hack is fair to all members based on usergroups.

This hack adds two new usergroup fields, and adds the option to edit these fields directly form your admincp. It is very self explanatory.

The hack may not seem like much, but I put a lot of time into it, so I would appreciate it if everyone would click install!

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL! That's all I ask.

*Please do not edit or redistribute this hack without my permission. Thanks!

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Queries: 2
File edits: 2
New Phrases: 1
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TOTAL INSTALL TIME: ~5 minutes or less

~006

[007]

Don't change any numbers in the code. If you do, the hack will not work properly. Add all the code and then to change the time and posts variables, go to your usergroup settings and enter the numbers there.

[Cold Steel]

/me installs. Thanks!

[contramontanum]

OK, I ran the queries, did the file edits, added the phrase, retraced my steps to double check I did everything right and even clicked install , but I must be missing something. Can't find any new user group fields in ACP. Where do I set the values? Please help because I've really been waiting for this hack. Thanks.

[007]

You MUST not have done the admincp/usergroup.php edits. Go double check that part.

[Fluous]

I really want to install this hack. But it's being like you have an error in the last lines of your code. Which is only like eval = ARCADE and fetching those templates. So I reuploaded the other files

[007]

You installed it wrong. Where it says "find," do just that. Then ADD below the template code. You mentioned something about changing that code. There are no changes. Just adding the next section that says "add below" below it..

[contramontanum]

Originally Posted by 006

You MUST not have done the admincp/usergroup.php edits. Go double check that part.

Double checked and triple checked. All edits done as per instructions. Maybe I'm just low on sugar right now, but where in ACP should I be looking for the new settings? Under Usergroups, yes?

[007]

Go to yourforums.com/forums/admincp/usergroup.php?do=modify

Click "Go" next to a usergroup. Scroll down to the "Arcade Permissions"

It should show two new options there.

[contramontanum]

Guess I'm not that familiar with usergroups... :surprised: You are my hero, seriously you are! :banana: I wish I could see the faces of the arcade addicted freeloaders when the get the error message. Woohoo!!!

[007]

Haha! Sorry for not releasing this earlier. I had originally coded it right after installing the arcade for this very reason, bandwith freeloaders.. Who needs em!