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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Priority support for Lite version is handled at the Developers Website.

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[FatalBreeze]

Also, I'm running a non-English based RTL with utf-8 encoding, 200K users, 5M posts board, and there are a few problems with RTL and non-English languages.
Can you please make the display in credits.php like it was in 1.4? because it looks really messy the way it is displayed right now.
Moreover, does this hack includes the admin donate/fees?

Thanks in advance.

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by Mike007

Why there is no demo link or screenshots? :S

There is not a lot to see on the front end, but we will have admin screenshots within a few days.

Originally Posted by FatalBreeze

Hi thanks for the hack, but i'm getting two errors:
1. in the admincp:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/atraf3/domains/atraf3.iatraf.co.il/public_html/admincp/credits_admin.php on line 1114
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/atraf3/domains/atraf3.iatraf.co.il/public_html/admincp/credits_admin.php on line 1114

2. in every page in the site i get this: 'vB_AJAX_NameSuggest' is undefined.
Line: 11719, char: 1.

Can you please tell me how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

In the short term, just edit and save each display to make the error go away.
I have a maintenance update to post in a little while today that will fix both of those.

Originally Posted by FatalBreeze

Also, I'm running a non-English based RTL with utf-8 encoding, 200K users, 5M posts board, and there are a few problems with RTL and non-English languages.
Can you please make the display in credits.php like it was in 1.4? because it looks really messy the way it is displayed right now.
Moreover, does this hack includes the admin donate/fees?

Thanks in advance.

First, I apologize that it is still in the process of having phrases inserted.
There is a style bug that I am fixing which will make the displays not look like a mess.

Yes! Admin donate has been renamed to the Adjust action. Set your usergroup permissions to use it, and create an Adjust event to start using it. It will be available on the currency transfer popup. In that event you can set (for lite) negative value for action (adjust) amount for a flat fee, or on the individual (currency) amount for per-credit as a percentage fee. If you need help with this let me know.

[War.Frog]

While this looks impressive, I can't imagine anyone installing such a significant piece of code on their site before the copyright issues are known and legally resolved. They are ANYTHING but clear, and if anything there appears to be serious doubts about claimed ownership here.

The LAST thing I want to do is take a flier on something only to have vb.org bury it or PixelFXStudio's succeed in a copyright challenge.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by War.Frog

While this looks impressive, I can't imagine anyone installing such a significant piece of code on their site before the copyright issues are known and legally resolved. They are ANYTHING but clear, and if anything there appears to be serious doubts about claimed ownership here.

The LAST thing I want to do is take a flier on something only to have vb.org bury it or PixelFXStudio's succeed in a copyright challenge.

vb.org have already graveyarded PixelFX's version of vBCredits 1.5 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=245226) (restored for the moment) =) The DBtech/DarkWaltz version is the only official version of vBCredits.

As far as the copyright goes, I'll simply quote you from the US gvt website:

Originally Posted by http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html

But since any original work of authorship fixed in a tangible medium (including a computer file) is protected by federal copyright law upon creation, in the absence of clear information to the contrary, most works may be assumed to be protected by federal copyright law

...Even if a person hires a photographer to take pictures of a wedding, for example, the photographer will own the copyright in the photographs unless the copyright in the photographs is transferred, in writing and signed by the copyright owner, to another person.

Rob does not have this, because John never signed any such thing. Rob's "claim" is based on the fact he has no understanding of copyright law =) PixelFXStudios had a license on the copyright of Johns work, which John has now revoked. There is also no truth to the claim that John was an employee of Robs - there is no record of this ever being the case with any government agency, nor any signed contract of employment between the two.

I checked all of this personally, including the legal aspects, before bringing John on board the DBTech team. There is absolutely, 100% guaranteed, no legal basis for what Rob is saying.

I hope the mods will recognise that this is a question people may have, and leave this post up so they have the relevant information on the situation.

With that being said If anyone wants more information on the relevant copyright law and the situation, feel free to PM me and i'll clear it all up since this thread is not the place for further discussion on the issue. Thanks for your understanding

Iain

[Xencored]

Well said Iain

[Trek]

I just wanted to say thanks to DarkWaltz for checking into some issues I had this with mod, some of which, weren't the fault of this mod. All is fixed for me now, excellent support and an excellent mod!

[Darkwaltz4]

updated first post to address all release bugs it should be looking and working as intended now.

[Kolektor]

Thanks for fixing all the bugs. Rating should increase now.

[Xencored]

On upgrading

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[Darkwaltz4]

whoops - updated first post, however if you installed the very first version of vBCredits II Deluxe you only need to replace the files on your server - importing not necessary (unless you want to hide the errors on the display manager, which go away if you just edit and save each one)