Major Additions - Casino (w/ 10 player poker)

The Gameroom is the follow up to this, and expands on its features. This mod will no longer be supported, Gameroom is here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=219483

This is a casino addition for vBulletin, so far containing video poker, blackjack, Slots, a lottery, Let 'em Ride, Roulette and a betting pool.

It can use it's own cash as well as cash fields from other products for easy integration. Cash bonuses are also awarded for various actions (posting, starting threads, etc.), you can alter the bonus values through the admincp.

Each of the 10 games can be turned on or off through the control panel, and the casino can be restricted by user group.

I'd consider this a test run, everything should work, but some of the template's and all of the phrasing are not done yet.

Screenshots are attached.

If you want to see a demo, it's live at http://vbgaming.org, it does require registration though as it needs a userid to attach your money too Bug reports and requests can also be posted there, and will probably have less chance of getting buried in this rather massive thread. If you are having a problem, please look there. If it is one that others have been having, there will likely be a solution there (as well as in this thread, just harder to find here)

v 0.90 (Jan 6)
- Fixed a bug in lottery odds calculation that was casuing problems with the jackpot.
- Completed Phrasing of all games & admincp
- Removed card flicker some people experienced in Texas Hold'em
- Removed unused table limit setting from Video Poker settings
- Handled a DB error that occasionally came out of the slots game
- Sports Pool groups are now edited through the game, not the admincp
- Blackjack: Dealer checks for blackjack on A or 10
- Blackjack: Added Five card charlie rule
- Texas Hold'em: poker mod groups can now use the command "/kick username" to kick people out of the game. If a hand is in progress it counts as a forced fold, not returning their share of the pot.
- Blackjack - Fixed bug on bet amount when splitting more then once on a hand

v 0.91 (Jan 13)
- Added missing field for holdem mod groups to settings table
- Removed 0.90 test code of drawin same numbers in lottery
- Piped all the ajax files through casino.php, this should solve some of the conflicts people where having (ex. mkportal)
- Added missing link to add / edit groups in sports pool
- Fixed extra \'s in chatbox some users where getting
- Added a reset cash button in the ACP
- Fixed a bug where the blackjack_dealt table wasn't getting cleared properly
- Fixed "Most Lost" stat calculation


v 0.92 (Feb 18)
- Fixed Default Cash not saving
- Texas Hold'em no longer shows hand after folding
- Texas Hold'em buttons should not reappear after clicking if a request was in progress when they where clicked
- Fixed some of the reinstall issues people have been having

This is pretty minor, working on some major changes to the Texas Hold'em game that are taking longer then I planned due to other things coming up.

Known issues:
- The same player attempting to play more then one instance of the same game at the same time will cause errors.

To update overwrite all of the old files and import the product, revert any modified (casino) templates and don't forget the files in other folders Also some of the images have changed, those need uploaded again. (as well as the includes and admincp files) You DO NOT need to uninstall the previous version to upgrade, this will cause problems. Just overwrite existing files and import the product again, allowing overwrite.

**Make sure you overwrite ALL existing files and revert ALL casino templates**

[SLY LS1]

Ha ha this is to good, I have a car forum so I just changed the ninja slots to car brand slots, see attached file, then just changed the names in the casino_slots_main template to the car brands.
Will be good once the final product is released as people can make the slots wheel to suit their forum theme etc.

[towermatt]

Wow! What a cool idea

[perju]

I have a big forum and many of my members have become addicted to the casino. I had to create a separate thread just for people to post and get money ($5 per post).

I love the extra traffic and all, but these posts are meaningless and pointless (some are random characters). Since friday, there have been over 11,000 posts in this one thread alone.

What's a good solution to this problem?

[perju]

I created new chips to resemble chips you'd find at a casino.

Here you go.

[towermatt]

Originally Posted by perju

I have a big forum and many of my members have become addicted to the casino. I had to create a separate thread just for people to post and get money ($5 per post).

I love the extra traffic and all, but these posts are meaningless and pointless (some are random characters). Since friday, there have been over 11,000 posts in this one thread alone.

What's a good solution to this problem?

I would not have created the thread for it in the first place. The idea is to post stuff that is relevant. Now that it is there though, I am not sure how I would take it.

Maybe pay people to not post in there?

[Andrew Green]

Take money away for stupid posts? Temporary casino ban for stupid posts?

Decrease available chip amounts so that they bankrupt themselves at a slower pace?

[towermatt]

Temporary casino ban for stupid posts?

I like that one. And the more popular it gets, I may take it away for anyone acting out of line on the board.

[Mark.B]

Last week I did a bit of playing about with the automerge double post hack, and I managed to get it to also deduct the value of the cash total from the user when it automerged a post.

I then managed to make it not bother with the merging bit and just not apply the casino cash (actually what happens is it gets added on and then taken off again).

Unfortunately this isn't a terribly efficient way of doing it, but I'm sure something similar could be achieved by someone who knows what they are doing (which I don't) and has enough spare time to write it (which I also don't!)

[perju]

The thinking behind creating that thread was to somehow preserve the rest of the board. I would rather flood one thread with pointless posts than have it spread to the entire forum.

The problem with taking money away from the members is we're all friends (well, just about).

Question: if a member's post is deleted by an admin, do they lost those points? If so, what happens when the post is deleted after the member loses the money they earned? Do they go into negatives?

[Andrew Green]

might be possible to put a size cap on it, posts 50 characters and up get x, posts 500 characters and up get y...

I don't think there is a perfect solution though, anytime ou award a action, some people will try and do the minimum possible to get the award.