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

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[squall leonhart]

I set up the event transfer but it's not working. When I tried to transfer to another member, I received message "Transferring of this currency has not been configured"

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

Why would Pixelfx want to discredit you? I don't see him pointing to you anywhere.

I had a problem with the bank (users suddenly lost all their money in the bank), which you told me would be automatically fixed with the new version when you still was on vbcredits. Did you mean this version? I doubt it because there isn't a bank in this one anymore.

And if I understand correctly, my users will lose everything they have on the bank, so they have to remove all from the bank into their account first?

Is the bank coming back?
Is your new mod compatible with IbPro Arcade 3.+ as the old version was?

1) Because I am no longer working with him, he has lost the benefit of having me do the work, so he is having sour grapes about it.

2) Not lost at all! This version is multi-currency, so all of the accounts users had will be kept, and you can transfer between them like before. There are no loans however, and interest is part of the pro version. This version shares no code from the 1.x branch, so I can't exactly say the old bug was fixed, rather the old functionality no longer applies.

3) It should still be compatible with the old arcade addon so long as you keep the Credits currency; a newer update compatible with the multi-currency aspects is on the way.

Originally Posted by M4GN3T

Big bug, when a user edits a post and saves it, he gets the same ammount of points again. You have a fix for this?

That is not a bug; you did not assign a negation value for your post event. When the post is edited, it issues a negation to take back what it originally gave so that the new updates will be recalculated and applied.

I am changing in an update to skip this process on editing if you didn't put a negation value (or something to catch your attention if it thinks you missed setting it), as this seems to be a common misconception.

Originally Posted by squall leonhart

I set up the event transfer but it's not working. When I tried to transfer to another member, I received message "Transferring of this currency has not been configured"

You need to set up Donate events for each of your currencies (sorry, wording may be ambiguous, but the next update should make that more clear).

[Black Tiger]

@Darkwaltz: Thanks for explaining. But I decided I will wait for a version with a bank. I don't allow users to give credits to each other. They can put it on the bank and get interest from it. The thing is just for fun.

[Darkwaltz4]

you can do that already is what I said.

1) Regular checking account
2) Savings account

Upgrading from vbcredits 1.x will preserve everyone's amounts. You can set an interest event on your savings currency so that it acts like a savings account.

Then, create transfer events for users to move their own currencies between checking and savings at will, and a donate event only for checking for each other.

Voila, bank. On the next lite version (which will be this friday, or get pro version available now) most of this will be set up automatically for you, but you can still do this manually (only a couple simple steps I can help you with if you really get lost) to it right now.

[Black Tiger]

Upgrading from vbcredits 1.x will preserve everyone's amounts.

Except the amounts present in the bank at the moment, correct?

And interest is only present in the pro version you wrote, which I don't want, because I don't need all the extra functionality.
I would really like a bank like the old bank, because that's fun. Accounts which can do the same but without a real bank link, is not that much fun.

[Darkwaltz4]

The savings accounts will be preserved as well!

Also, I think I will allow interest in the lite version, as there are plenty of large features in pro added in 2.0.0, and that is minor enough.

I think the method of transferring currency between your accounts is much more intuitive and easy in the new version (see the vbc2_currency_popup screenshot)

[Black Tiger]

Would be nice if the interest would be in the lite version, but I need a bank for my users.

I don't know where the screenshots are, but that's no problem because I don't want to allow transfer of currency between users.

[Darkwaltz4]

There is effectively a bank.

The screenshots are attached in the first post.

You can simply only enable a user to transfer between his own accounts, not other users.

I would be happy to assist you with setting this stuff up Since you are proving tough to convince (I think it is just a lot of miscommunication though)

[Black Tiger]

Me being tough to convince has more to do with my users suddenly losing all their bank savings in the past and the long wait for the fix you promised and which never came.
But I accept the fact that some things can change when people who worked with eachother before go seperate ways suddenly. Such things can happen.

The other fact is that some post ago was stated there was no bank in this version like in the old version, and that's a requirement on my behalve. Which I don't see in the screenshots either. Which screenshot would that be?

So this time I just want to be extremely careful, in spite of the fact that we use it just for fun. I don't want my users over me a third time (first time was because of iBank which ... well.. never mind, that was another coder).
But thank you for the offer to help me settings things up.

[Darkwaltz4]

There isn't a bank in the static sense as before; however, all of the bank features (except loans) are implemented in a more dynamic way (to enable multiple currencies to use them vs a single static one) - plus your existing bank accounts will carry over from the 1.x version.

See vbc2_currency_panel screenshot for what the member transaction log looks like. Clicking any of the numbers pops open the transfer box I mentioned in my previous post, except that feature is available anywhere currency is shown (postbits, profiles, etc)

Do you have a testing board perhaps? I guess, in the long run, if you and your users are happy with the current version and your issue isn't happening, just keep using it.

I will say that in the ~year that this version has been available to many users, not a single complaint of unexplained currency loss/gain, especially because it keeps detailed logs of every movement of credits.