Major Additions - vBCredits - Ultimate Points System

vBCredits is the ultimate points system for your vBulletin!
Click here for the vB3.7 compatible version

Thank you to everyone who voted us MOTM

Features:

• Earning Credits
  • Twenty-Four Actions Eligible for Awards
    • Induction
      • Registration, Promotion, Subscription, etc
    • Referral
    • Paycheck
      • Definable Time Period
    • Activity
      • Definable Qualification
    • Birthday
    • Grant Reputation
      • Can Integrate with Rep Power
    • Receive Reputation
      • Can Multiply Reputation Points
    • Infraction
      • Can Multiply Infraction Points
    • New Thread
    • Rate Thread
      • Can Multiply Rating
    • Posting
    • Own Thread Posting
    • Post Size
      • Multiply Against Chars or Words
      • Can Strip BB Code Prior
      • Definable Maximum
    • Your Thread Viewed
      • Can Disable Guest Views
    • Your Thread Rated
    • Your Thread Replied
    • Your Profile Viewed
    • Poll Creation
    • Poll Vote
    • Upload Attachment
    • Sending PM
    • Calendar Event
    • Profile Picture
    • Profile Fields
      • Can Multiply Number of Fields
      • Can Set Minimum Fields
  • Decimal Settings for Credits and Percentages
  • Protocol for Negative Balances
  • Award Recalculation when Action Changes
  • Award Negation Multiplier
    • When Action Revoked Such As Post Deletion
  • Forum Overrides
    • Twelve Eligible Actions by Usergroup
    • ACP Tool to Configure Multiple at Once
    • Earning in Forums Can be Turned Off
• Displaying Credits
  • Everybody, Private, Nobody
    • Usergroup Permission to See All Private Amounts
  • Displays by Global, Usergroup, Forum
  • Lock Usergroups from Entire System
  • AJAX Navbar Amount Refresh
  • Display / Order by Savings, Checking, or Both
  • Richest User Listing
    • Can Exclude Usergroups From Listing
  • Display Credits in Memberlist
• Extensive Referral System
  • Validate by Time, Posts, and Reputation
  • Referee Credit Incentive
  • Number of Referrals per Referral Point
  • Maximum Referral Points
  • Referral Points Multiplied Against Additive Referral Bonus
  • ARB Increases ALL Other Action Award Amounts
• Post Award System
  • AJAX Through Thread or Profile
  • Can Spend From Central Board Account
    • Filled from Taxes, Fees, etc
  • Daily, User, Thread Limits
  • Can Disallow Negative Awards
  • Disable by Usergroup, Forum
  • Moderate by Usergroup, Forum
  • Can Publicly Display Awards in Thread
• Transaction Log
  • Displays All Donations, Awards, Payments, Winnings, etc
  • Can be Split into Pages
  • Usergroup Permission to View All Users' Logs
  • Specify Transaction Alerts via PM
  • Comments and Reasons Allow BB Code
• Donations
  • Support for Comments and Anonymous
  • Time Based User Limits
  • Donation Fee
  • Fee Handling Protocol
  • Moderate / Cancel Donations
• Drawings
  • Unlimited Concurrent Drawings
  • Raffle / Lottery Types
  • Static / Raising Jackpots
  • Per Drawing Ticket Cost
  • Maximum Active Tickets
  • Minimum / Maximum Tickets Sold for Drawings
  • Recurring Drawings
  • Usergroup Discounts
  • Configurable Title and Date
  • Exclude Usergroups
  • Optional Winner PHP
  • Allow Lottery Number Picking
  • Tax on Winnings
  • Archive Time Limit for Completed Drawings
  • Retry Period for Ineligible Drawings
• Savings Accounts
  • Validate Access by Time, Posts, and Reputation
  • Minimum Balance for Interest
  • Bank Transfer Fee
  • Pending Deposits
  • Early Withdrawal Fee
  • Interest Intervals
  • Maximum Savings per Usergroup
  • Configurable Usergroup Interest Rates
  • Moderate Deposits
• Loans
  • Moderate Loans
  • Maximum Total Loans and Amounts
  • Minimum Loan Amount
  • Minimum Payment by Due Date
  • Late Payment Fee
  • Automatic Recurring Payments
  • Accountability Rating for Loan Repayment
  • Good and Bad Rating Thresholds
  • Lock Spending Ability if Below Bad Rating
  • Transfer Usergroups when Threshold Passed
    • Reward or Punish Users with New Rates and Abilities
• Administrative Utilities
  • Mass Usergroup Updater
    • Select Template Usergroup to Copy Settings
    • Select Multiple Target Usergroups
    • Configure All Usergroup Settings and Awards
  • Mass Credit Updater
    • Retroactively Award Users Based on Settings
    • Can be Used to Award Static Amounts to All Users
    • Can be Used to Reset Entire Usergroups
    • Pick and Choose Usergroups and Awards to Calculate
  • Modify User Accounts by Criteria
    • First Search for Users Using Familiar Options
    • Can Search by Savings and Checking Amounts
    • Can Alter Resulting Users' Amounts Directly
    • Can Apply Easy-to-Use Custom Defined Formula
      • Use Simple Math, Numbers, and Variables
        • Days Registered
        • Post Count
        • Reputation
        • Infraction Points
        • Checking and Savings Amounts
• Overall Quality
  • Everything is Easily Disabled / Unlimited
  • Will Not Alter Environment for vB or Other Hacks
  • Fully Phrased
  • Complete Admin Help*
  • WOL Locations
  • Includes Hooks
  • Unique Plugin Optimization
  • Uses Bitfields and Datastore
  • Maintains Sessions
  • Includes TMS Support
  • No File Edits

and much more!

Just follow the directions carefully in the zip based on whether you are clean installing or upgrading


Fully integrated with vBulletin and easily integrated with third party scripts:
Many hacks allow you to specify a points system by entering the table and column for the points data. Use TABLE: user COLUMN: credits when integrating vBCredits with such hacks (note: you may need to include your table prefix with some hacks)! If you are unsure about integration - ask me!

Why is this version not the gold version yet?
vBCredits 1.4rc1 went through a long bugtesting process at the official site, and rc2 is largely bug free in its entirety. However, *it is missing most of the admin help and post/thread deletion actions are temporarily removed while I figure out how to fix them.

Footnotes:
Thank you for using vBCredits, I would be happy to hear your feedback and correct anything that comes up. For more tailored support, please indicate you have installed this hack. Use of this free hack requires that you retain the copyright line at the bottom of the forum (PM me otherwise). If you do not agree with this, please do not use vBCredits - thank you for your understanding and support!

[chikkoo]

Hi DarkWaltz4,

I just moved to iCash to vBCredit1.3, I observed the following.

1) There is a usergroup based awarding system is missing in vbCredit.
2) We used to reduce credits by entering negative numbers. That's missing?
3) The error messages are not descriptive. All error messages say "Invalid Amount Specified"

I will update more soon...

[DiSpy]

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

Suggestion:

Could you integrate this with YAAS? Every time an award is issued, I'd like for them to receive the points automatically.

If not, no biggie.

I already requested that (and others) in a pm to dark.

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by SVTCobraLTD

I have it setup on my board that members get 20 points when bumped up to "Member" which is the default group, and 10 for referrals. But when I test it and register i start with like 105 points. What is wrong? The highest points are 20 for be upgraded to "Member". Any ideas?

SVT

Yes, you forgot to set Awaiting Email confirmation group to all 0.

Originally Posted by kaisellgren

Hi!

Any ideas where I could change the code where it adds more credits upon posting? I'd like to add my own regular expression to check that there is at least 6 words in the post before adding credits.

Thank you!

Try Posting Credit Application and New Thread Credit Application, you can use the variables they create when counting chars and just add an if in there.

Originally Posted by chikkoo

Hi DarkWaltz4,

I just moved to iCash to vBCredit1.3, I observed the following.

1) There is a usergroup based awarding system is missing in vbCredit.
2) We used to reduce credits by entering negative numbers. That's missing?
3) The error messages are not descriptive. All error messages say "Invalid Amount Specified"

I will update more soon...

1) I will see about adding it, theres already a list for 1.4 features that will be posted on my site later.
2) Yes, using negatives will reduce counts in every award type in the ACP. On the frontend you can only use positives (except for the post award system, but you still have to select Remove and enter a positive number)
3) Should only be happening if you put 0 or below for anything. Will check the variables for 1.4, otherwise, see number 2 :-p


I am working on a bunch of addons next, expect arcades next and yaas.

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by chikkoo

Hi DarkWaltz4,

I just moved to iCash to vBCredit1.3, I observed the following.

1) There is a usergroup based awarding system is missing in vbCredit.
2) We used to reduce credits by entering negative numbers. That's missing?
3) The error messages are not descriptive. All error messages say "Invalid Amount Specified"

I will update more soon...

Wait, are you saying I am missing something that Icash did that I didnt? I just checked, and Im pretty sure mine does all it did and more. Or, are you saying you are missing a phrase or something?

[kaisellgren]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Try Posting Credit Application and New Thread Credit Application, you can use the variables they create when counting chars and just add an if in there.

I tried searching around for Posting Creadit Application and New Thread Credit Application too, but I could not find either of them. Where are they located?

[Darkwaltz4]

ACP -> Plugins and Products -> Plugin Manager

[kaisellgren]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

ACP -> Plugins and Products -> Plugin Manager

Hmm. I see nothing: http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2771/noel7.png

[Darkwaltz4]

You are running v1.2, please upgrade to 1.3 Then youll see it

[G_Man]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Also, credits can go negative because it was the only way it can function as correctly as possible. By its very nature pretty much everything can be exploited. What if you made long posts for post size credits, bought something with them, and then trimmed your post to normal? It needs to go negative so at least they will pay back what they technically stole. Plus theres settable amounts for having a post deleted, so you could in fact punish users for writing something that got deleted, so making them work it back is kind of ideal.

The best solution for this (which I did on vbplaza) was turn off any payment for posting. Period.

Instead I gave credits for replies and views in people threads. This encourages people to post Threads that will be of interest, since they get paid everytime it is viewed or replied to.

[PixelFx]

good idea, thanks for the tip .. its always a challenge to get people to post more quality content. even on my sites..