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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[Sarcoth]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Nah you dont have to stop posting here, I was just confused because I couldnt verify which version you were using because vborg says you havent downloaded However, support related to pro features cannot and wont be discussed here!

I put in a suggestion for seeing rounded-off decimals here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/project.php?issueid=366

(also, you can go to Edit Settings on this mod [or any others on vborg] and go to the bottom and set whether you want to be alerted by manual/automatic/both/never and by email/pm to control if/when/how you get alerted after youve clicked install )

Understood. And, that is cool. I never knew you could prevent updates from certain mods. Thanks.

[TheChaosFactor]

The option to purchase the ability to join groups does not work. I have bought it twice with the same member and when I send invite from different member name, it says receiving member is unable to join groups.

[TheChaosFactor]

Also just a couple things I'd love to see maybe added in future updates:

Currency Exchange where currency value can be made relative to other currencies and maybe where that currency value depends on how much of that currency is on the market compared to other currencies.

So if there are 100,000 units of currency 'A' and currency 'B' they'd be equal with 50,000 of each on the market. Then if there were 40,000 of currency 'A' on the market and 60,000 of currency 'B' currency be would be worth 66% the value of currency 'A'. Is that making sense? So the currency with the smallest availability would be worth 1:1 and the others would be worth lased based on supply.

Ps. This could be tied into vbShop to create an inflation factor. Just a thought I had. I'd be glad to work out some psuedo code for how I could see it working if you'd be interested.

Edit: I almost forgot the other idea I had. You guys should add on a bbcode that hides material until the cost is paid AND splits it between system tax and the author of the material.

[mdcdeve]

Had to disable it for now as it seems to stop my rss poster from running.

Fatal error: Call to a member function escape_string() on a non-object in /home/mdcdecom/public_html/forums/dbtech/credits/credits_core.php  on line 300

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by TheChaosFactor

The option to purchase the ability to join groups does not work. I have bought it twice with the same member and when I send invite from different member name, it says receiving member is unable to join groups.

What did you have set up and how did you go about trying to test it?

Originally Posted by TheChaosFactor

Also just a couple things I'd love to see maybe added in future updates:

Currency Exchange where currency value can be made relative to other currencies and maybe where that currency value depends on how much of that currency is on the market compared to other currencies.

So if there are 100,000 units of currency 'A' and currency 'B' they'd be equal with 50,000 of each on the market. Then if there were 40,000 of currency 'A' on the market and 60,000 of currency 'B' currency be would be worth 66% the value of currency 'A'. Is that making sense? So the currency with the smallest availability would be worth 1:1 and the others would be worth lased based on supply.

Ps. This could be tied into vbShop to create an inflation factor. Just a thought I had. I'd be glad to work out some psuedo code for how I could see it working if you'd be interested.

Edit: I almost forgot the other idea I had. You guys should add on a bbcode that hides material until the cost is paid AND splits it between system tax and the author of the material.

Relative value is already a pro feature of vBCredits II Deluxe.
I used to have an addon like that, however its reintroduction status is up in the air, and would most likely be a pro feature anyway.

Originally Posted by mdcdeve

Had to disable it for now as it seems to stop my rss poster from running.

Fatal error: Call to a member function escape_string() on a non-object in /home/mdcdecom/public_html/forums/dbtech/credits/credits_core.php  on line 300

Sorry about that; keep an eye on this bug report for when I figure out the cause: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/project.php?issueid=362

[x9751]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Both of you need to set negation amounts on the post events. The way it works is that during editing, it negates the event and then reissues it, so that any different in credits will be realized. So if you didnt put a negation, then you effectively get a new reward by just editing your post.

Okay I did both -22 and just 22 in the negative section but it is still doing it. What am i doing wrong?

[Darkwaltz4]

Follow the descriptions in the settings to see what they will do with those numbers.
In the case of the negation on your post event, don't put it as negative.

If it still doesn't seem right, PM me an admin login with vBCredits permissions and I will check your event settings.

[x9751]

Never mind it seems to be fixed now. It was probably because i wanted my staff to get 2x as much as regular users and i didn't set permissions correctly or something idk but thanks for you help

[RollaJedi]

is there an addon/integration with ibProArcade anymore? if so, could you please point me to it. thanks!

[Darkwaltz4]

The old integration probably still works, provided you retain the default currency (credits). An updated, multi-currency integration is still being developed