Add-On Releases - vBArmy - vBulletin Army System

Please post any bugs you encounter. We will be making an updated version with a lot more features. Feel free to post any suggestions & comments.

Updates Since 3.7 version
Added admin panel to edit settings. See image attachments.
Race bonuses actually do something now.
Can reset entire game
Can delete user so they can start again.

About the Game
vBArmy is a game for vBulletin.

Each member begins their adventure by choosing a Race which had certain advantages over other races. They begin with a few soldiers and a bit of gold, and must build their army by fighting other players.

Players can buy weapons for their soldiers to increase their attack strength, and buy armor to increase their soldier's defense strength. However, each soldier can only use one weapon and one item of armor. Players can also upgrade their Defense and Offense to increase their defensive and offensive strengths by a percentage.

Players can browse through a list of participating players. They can conduct intelligence operations by sending Spies, which cost a set amount of gold to purchase. The more spies you send, the more accurate the intelligence you gather will be. Gathered intelligence gives you an estimate of the players total gold, offensive power, and defensive power.

If you choose to attack a player you must use "Turns." You only get a certain amount of turns every cycle set by the admin. The more turns you use, the more gold you will steal from your opponent. Be warned though, your opponent will know that you attacked them by viewing their Defense Log and being notified by pm.

Naturally it is important to grow your army. The only way to get soldiers in the game is to have your friends click your "Recruitment Link" They can only click it once every (admin set minutes), and each time they do you will receive an (admin set amount) of soldiers.

Please click Install, there will be a status notification upon the release of major updates.

[plazzman]

++++ right now I don't even care about these bugs, if I wasn't such a n00b and could properly install this, I'd be singing his praises either way.

[ZiG]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Not to undermine your efforts, but I've been unhappy with how this mod works, so I'm working on writing my own version of this mod. I'm not re-using the code at all, it will all be from scratch, but the principles behind the game will be very similar. The biggest difference is that I will be writing a CONQUEST game, instead of an ARMY game, so players work as a team for their race, instead of just chosing their race and attacking anybody.

both of these games sound like the perfect kind of forum games for vbulletin, very surprised one hasn't been written already and fully functional. would be great if the script you are working on works with forum activity, or if this one is patches to support forum activity. just a suggestion.

[DobieGillis?]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Not to undermine your efforts, but I've been unhappy with how this mod works, so I'm working on writing my own version of this mod. I'm not re-using the code at all, it will all be from scratch, but the principles behind the game will be very similar. The biggest difference is that I will be writing a CONQUEST game, instead of an ARMY game, so players work as a team for their race, instead of just chosing their race and attacking anybody.

Noice!

[NavS]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

The recruit members links should be handled by FORUM ACCOUNTS, not computers or IP addresses.

You could probably do that yourself if you wanted, just have to change it from logging the IP to logging the User id...

A rank system would be nice, so that players with big armies can't destroy newcomers... Otherwise anything new is greatly appreciated and the bugs are my only main beef which have been in most part fixed....

[crustymusic99]

I have it installed thanks for fixing out some bugs! I'll keep checking back for updates.

I have been receiving this error when trying to upload a new race's image.

Warning: move_uploaded_file(armysystem_images/tmp_49e64f5d880b4.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/armysystem/att_include.php on line 543

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpdZmq07' to 'armysystem_images/tmp_49e64f5d880b4.jpg' in [path]/armysystem/att_include.php on line 543

Warning: getimagesize(armysystem_images/a292f1c5874b2be8395ffd75f313937f_3af7a3caf8d2fe05a af020bdb06f833c.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/armysystem/att_include.php on line 482

edit: I'm not too educated on these things but I guess it was a file permission issue so I made all armysystem folders chmd 777, but still get this now
Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagecreatefromjpeg() in /home/naa/public_html/forums/armysystem/att_include.php on line 500

edit2: asked a friend, we checked for GD Image library which I have but doesn't support jpg.. so idk any options?

[Whatah]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Not to undermine your efforts, but I've been unhappy with how this mod works, so I'm working on writing my own version of this mod. I'm not re-using the code at all, it will all be from scratch, but the principles behind the game will be very similar. The biggest difference is that I will be writing a CONQUEST game, instead of an ARMY game, so players work as a team for their race, instead of just chosing their race and attacking anybody.

what would be amazing is if you could make something like the old

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barren_Realms_Elite

this was a classic bbs game, people improve resources, grow population, buy weapons, make treaties... they could also construct super weapons and send them to other sites who also had this game installed. these super attacks would hit another site and hamper economic growth untill everyone on that site joined together to destroy it.

imagine this as a strategy based vB game that could actually interact with other vB sites on a "known universe list" (could just be a few sites that are friends with each other or a huge list kept here @ vB.org)

[crustymusic99]

got a fix for my error..

To the author: everyone will want something different for this mod. Best to keep it simple and generic so it fits the needs for all. Getting into different game types with various resources and populations will not be what everyone wants. If possible making these sorts of options customizable would be great, but otherwise don't get too fancy!

[Eagle Eyes]

Is this mod stable?

No errors? etc..

I would love to install this mod.

Thanks for making it.

[Sugoi na]

Originally Posted by Eagle Eyes

Is this mod stable?

No errors? etc..

I would love to install this mod.

Thanks for making it.

This mod is not stable & should more or less be in "BETA" stage. It's simply not ready for communities who are blood hungry because they will tear these bugs apart!

I do however look forward to the future release.

[eXoOutsider]

The idea is there, the execution of that idea... whack