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!

[PixelFx]

we can help you on our site or here, but generally if you don't know how to ftp then there would be I would assume an account manager or admin that could help you where ever your forum is hosted.

[bested]

forum is powered by vbulletin.

[bested]

Originally Posted by Terrasoft

Im curious as to how you got your forum set up then. >_0

Anyways, I recommend SmartFTP or AceFTP, those have been pretty good to me.
Back on topic: I installed on a test site and it runs perfectly. I have yet to get any errors, can't wait for the next update.

I did not set it up, I am an admin only, bested is the site owner...I am getting mods for him...my vbulletin Username name is Clarinet

[GekkoPixie]

Bested -

vBulletin doesn't host the site. That tag just means that they are using the vBulletin software for the forums. Hosting would be a monthly paid company that owns the server they are using space on. What you should do is contact an admin of that site, and ask them to take care of the issue.

If you are the one running the place, then you need to upload the unzipped files into your main (root) folder, which you can do using programs like WinSCP (my personal fave), or via the web if your host allows such a thing. If the place where your forum files is located is /forum, then that's where you would consider to be the 'root' folder.

Sounds like you might want to consider hiring or finding a coder or more knowledgeable person to help you do this stuff for you.

[bested]

I think bested has it with forumer...he does not have a coder.

[Darkwaltz4]

The third person perspective is kinda confusing :-p

Bested: who installed the version of vBCredits that you are using in the first place? They should be the ones to upgrade it for you.

[raiderlax]

2) If you do NOT have TMS installed, apply the 7 Template Edits listed below. Also, if you are missing some displays, follow the directions at the very bottom.
- Please note that when you upgrade vBulletin, you will need to perform these modifications again.

What is TMS? and also can you award say "5" credits to those for making a new "post" ?

As well I would like to have them be able to use their credits on something how do I do this?


Thanks.

[Darkwaltz4]

I linked to it in the main post. It is not required to install, just makes template editing automatic instead of manual. If you dont know what it is, you most likely dont have it installed, and you shouldnt bother installing it just for that :-p (just merely a little plus if you do)

[Darkwaltz4]

Special Sneak Preview Demo

I have put up a little thing you guys can play with on my site, located in the user cp.
http://www.vbcredits.com/forum/customizer.php?do=usercp

Please note that it is NOT functional, nor does it contain (completely) real data :-p it is there as a teaser. Please post feedback in the announcement thread on my site, thanks.

[cheat-master30]

Okay, I have a new request for a mod to be integrated with this one, and that is the Interactive Profiles modification found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=150028

The features which I have people on my own forum wanting include being able to buy and donate profile styles via points, maybe using the shop add on you are working on when it releases, and I guess the usual stuff like points for being on friends lists or for commenting on profiles?

An example of a profile style is here:

http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/member.php?u=1 (which is the Castle Bleck one released in my article here).

Just a suggestion from myself and my own forum members for something to integrate. In future, I also guess gallery scripts would be good for integration, am I right?