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**

[Jimandbob]

Andy, Just installed this on a live board.

It is fantastic, Thanks for all the hard work

[TazeredBlackMan]

Originally Posted by Andrew Green

I might get a chance to look into this tonight or tomorrow, depending on what's going on. I'll have something by the end of the weekend at the latest.

Take your time, man, this is fun either way.

Also, this may just be me, but could you set up a statistics for the poorest people? I have a board that delights in mocking and laughing at them.

[Spinball]

Hello and thanks for the hack.
In the UK, our lottery has numbers 1-49 with 6 balls picked plus a bonus ball.
Full details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lottery
I'd be VERY grateful if you could modify your wonderful hack so that it would be possible to emulate the UK Lotto.
Many thanks.

[Andrew Green]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Hello and thanks for the hack.
In the UK, our lottery has numbers 1-49 with 6 balls picked plus a bonus ball.
Full details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lottery
I'd be VERY grateful if you could modify your wonderful hack so that it would be possible to emulate the UK Lotto.
Many thanks.

That can definitely be done, we got the same odds here. I just figured that for a forum odds of 1 in 14 million where a little steep, you'd likely go years without ever getting a winner

[Spinball]

Got a bug for you.
Changed the currency symbol to a pound as per another post here.
The change is not reflected in the user profile page. It still shows a dollar sign.

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Andrew Green

That can definitely be done, we got the same odds here. I just figured that for a forum odds of 1 in 14 million where a little steep, you'd likely go years without ever getting a winner

There are set prizes :
3 numbers ?10 56:1 (i.e. 1 in 57)
4 numbers 22% of remaining fund 1,031:1
5 numbers 10% of remaining fund 55,490:1
5 numbers and bonus ball 16% of remaining fund 2,330,635:1
6 numbers 52% of remaining fund 13,983,815:1 (i.e. 1 in 13,983,816)

I can imagine that programming the lottery could get quite complicated, but we could have it so that the whole fund rolls over (if it doesn't already).

[Tulsa]

Andrew - is the any plans on giving the admin control of the odds for each of the games? I'd like to loosen mine up a bit as winning is fun for people and breaking even gets a tad bit old.

[peterpigman]

Originally Posted by Tulsa

Andrew - is the any plans on giving the admin control of the odds for each of the games? I'd like to loosen mine up a bit as winning is fun for people and breaking even gets a tad bit old.

I use the thread rating/creating and posting bonus as a carrot to get people posting. Every now and again have a bonus day giving out lots of $s. The last time I did it we broke our highest posts and threads in a day ever lol. They soon blow that away and want another. As we have a section where anything goes it gives them something to do for a bit too. It has created an e-conomy with female members selling provocative pics for casino money which I found kinda funny. The options are endless tbh.

[towermatt]

The Casino Settings allow a way to "pay" people automatically for that stuff. My members love it.

We have also created access levels like you would do for an actual paid forum--they can "buy" privileges with their booty. People were worried about post whoring but it doesn't seem to be happening. Not to mention, my board is still pretty small (for now)

I also "pay" the staff.

[Tulsa]

Originally Posted by peterpigman

I use the thread rating/creating and posting bonus as a carrot to get people posting. Every now and again have a bonus day giving out lots of $s. The last time I did it we broke our highest posts and threads in a day ever lol. They soon blow that away and want another. As we have a section where anything goes it gives them something to do for a bit too. It has created an e-conomy with female members selling provocative pics for casino money which I found kinda funny. The options are endless tbh.

All I can say is you must have better looking women on your forum than mine! Whoa.. not good..