vBTripleTriad

What vBTripleTriad is:
-vBTripleTriad is a multiplayer modification for playing the addictive Triple Triad from Final Fantasy VIII. For now, If you want to learn how to play, Google it to see one of the many online tutorials. Check Out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Triad for more details.

Requirements:
-Any pre-existing points system in place. If you would like a crude points system for sole use in this hack, please CLICK HERE

Features:

Triple Triad the Game

• • Faithfully Recreated From Final Fantasy VIII
    • Contains All Original Card Images
    • Uses Original Game MIDI Files
    • All Original Game Rules Fully Functional
    • All Original Prize Rules Fully Functional
  • New Gameplay Features
    
    • Five New Game Rules Fully Functional
    • One New Prize Rule Fully Functional
    • AI More Intelligent Than FF8
      • Utilizes All Active Rules for Best Move
    • Every Rule Combination Won't Conflict
    • Manually or Randomly Set Rules
    • Unlimited Concurrent Matches
  • User Matches
    
    • Limit Levels of Cards
    • Set Wagers
  • AI Matches
    
    • Set Level of Difficulty
    • Points Admissions and Prizes
    • Limit Uses Through ACP
• Card Aquisition
  
  • Simple Purchase Process With Alert
  • Easy Inventory Management
  • Dynamic Card Catalog
  • Extras Can Be Resold
• User Interaction
  
  • Helpful Links
    • View Inventory
    • Statistics
    • Challenges
  • Trades
    
    • Donations
    • Your Own Cards
    • Point Offers
• Stadium
  
  • Browse Matches
    • Comprehensive Search
  • Statistics
    
    • Match Leaderboard
    • Hack Usage
  • Links to Everything
  • Existing Match Jump
• Admin Control Panel
  
  • Configure Game Settings
    • Integrate With Any Points System
    • Set Limits for Everything
    • Disable Certain PM Alerts
  • Card and Match Manager
    
    • Edit and Delete Existing Cards
    • Upload New Cards
      • Create Special Unique Usercards
      • Award Users New Cards
    • Restart and Delete Individual Matches
  • Match and Trade Processor
    
    • Consistency
    • Prune for Inactivity
    • Calculate Statistics
• Hack in General
  
  • Exhuastively Bugtested
  • Quick and Easy Installation
  • Integrates With Most Points Systems
  • Complete Control Over Every Aspect
  • Special Formulas for PHP-Illiterate Admins
  • Templates Meld Into vB Style
  • vB Standards PHP and MySQL
  • Concise Descriptions of All Actions

-MANY more which I cannot remember!

Installation:
-Upload a few files, run a couple of them, a small handful of minor file edits, and one template edit. Clean installation should take less than 10 minutes for the average admin. Complete instructions are inside the zip.

Because of attachment limitations, the second set of images is in the second post; CLICK HERE to download this as well.

Upgrade hack version 2.6 to 2.7:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Upgrade hack version 3.2.5 to 2.6:
-For upgrade information Please see this post

Supplemental Images:
-Additional Screenshots can be found in the second post, CLICK HERE.
-If you are interested in creating new/replacement card images and decks, CLICK HERE. Feel free to submit to me new versions of the base set if you would like them to become the new main set.
-The cardback that is included in vBTripleTriad was selected by my forum in a large contest. If you do not like it, you can CLICK HERE to download the original. Edit it to 105x130 pixels, rename to 'backcard.gif', and upload it to images/triad.

[PixelFx]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

well that makes the number one problem failure to configure/install a points hack :-p maybe ill do a new error message on the triad pages if it finds that the defaults are still set...i just assumed the db error spoke for itself :-/

PixelFX: well, to see the lists of changes, see the first post for the links to the update posts. the screenshots on the first post, and the zip posted on the second post, contain the screenshots of the current [2.7] version.

I'm working on tournament templates.

kewl can't wait to see it
just merged two of my sites

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Here is the crude points system, easy enough, just follow the directions

What is a good default amount to start everyone off with?

[Darkwaltz4]

it depends on several things. basically, how many CARDS do you want users to start out with. if you want the immediate 5, then work with your pack cost amout to come up with a beginning amount. you are most free when using only the crude points hack, as you can make everything cost essentially 1 point per card, and then have 5 points on reg :-p

so step one is figure out how much cards you want available to a user to start out with. if you want someone to gain points through playing with the AI, then work with your ai entrance fee formula to determine some low-level costs and you can add them with your initial-cards amount.

Then they could play against the ai for more points, have something for use in wagers against others, and/or resort to gaining points for posting. If you use an existing points hack, then expand the above plans to what you are currently allowing (some multiplication should suffice). so if you normally grant 1000 points for registering through your points hack, you can charge 400 per pack with 5 cards each, for a total of 10, and 200 points to invest in

hope that was something that wasnt overly complicated to comprehend.

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

it depends on several things. basically, how many CARDS do you want users to start out with. if you want the immediate 5, then work with your pack cost amout to come up with a beginning amount. you are most free when using only the curde points hack, as you can make everything cost essentially 1 point per card, and then have 5 points on reg :-p

so step one is figure out how much cards you want available to a user to start out with. if you want someone to gain points through playing with the AI, then work with your ai entrance fee formula to determine some low-level costs and you can add them with your initial-cards amount.

Then they could play against the ai for more points, have something for use in wagers against others, either/or resort to gaining points for posting. If you use an existing points hack, then expand the above plans to what you are currently allowing (some multiplication should suffice). so if you normally grant 1000 points for registering through your points hack, you can charge 400 per pack with 5 cards each, for a total of 10, and 200 points to invest in

hope that was something that wasnt overly complicated to comprehend.

Nope that helped alot - thanks!

[Kurisu]

Questions
- I followed your instructions to make new cards but the cards aren't displayed although they work as intended
- Will the dimensions of the cards stay the same?
- Will there be any changes in the cards themselves? Or can I start making new cards while waiting for the 3.5 version?


Ideas for future versions
- any plans for working on Tetra Master?
- there should be some sort of a item-shop system where users can by a specific dard
- option to see how many users have a specific card
- tournamen modest: K.O.-system, leagues and groupes with single-elimination rounds after the league
- different card decks
- get extras when completing a card deck
- purchase different types of card packs, not just the standard card pack. For example buy a FFVIII or a FFX card pack
- cheap card packs with lower level cards and expensive card packs with high-level cards
- allow trades of cards between players
- card auctions (like ebay)
- AND of course fully optimised for vb 3.5: phrased, installer or plugin


If everything works fine in 3.5 I'll be happy to donate^^

[Darkwaltz4]

Your questions:
-Check the catalog. If everything went well, they WILL be there, check around the level that you added it to (the end if they were UC).
-Yes, they were made to fit the backboard. (105x130)
-You can add new cards, but you will have to edit some values once I do the deck support system. (But at least what you put in now will not be lost)

Ideas:
-not really, but if so, will be its own hack
-I specifically hate that idea, and have deliberately not done it. Sorry (I want people to play each other to collect cards)
-Right now you can see the top owned card, similar system. I might do something like this for the catalog though...
-I don't understand what you mean with this one (too complicated)
-Deck support is planned for the version after the tournament version You'll be pleasantly surprised with the scope I am thinking up
-See above
-See above, maybe
-Maybe
-YOU CAN ALREADY DO THIS!!!! Both trade your own cards, and offer points to them. Set up links as in the instructions in things like profiles and posts, then the rest will work. Didn't you see even the options to TURN OFF trading in the configuration page? :-p Called 'Trades'
-YOU CAN ALREADY DO THIS!!! (See above) Called 'Point Offers'
-I intend final things like full phrasing etc, once all of the other features are done first, that way I'm not running everywhere finding things I forgot, and having to add/delete things between version, which could have waited until afterwards. I hope you understand, and I do feel bad about some of the non-english sites that I've found have installed this...

I've also submitted my problems to the vb team, and it should be fixed in RC3, so I can work more on products.



I've also run into an aesthetic problem while working on tournaments. For tiers, say you have 4 of them (so 16 to start off with). Is the initial tier called tier #1 or tier #4? I've found evidence to support both, but I really want to avoid confusion for everyone else if they want to you use.

[Kurisu]

- Well, I can play with the cards (so they are there) but they show up with no image (not even a placeholder or broken links)

- I'll be surprised with your deck idea? Would you mind telling us?

- the reason why I didn't notice the trade option was because I installed an old vb 3.0.8 on a testserver just to see your hack. And because I was the only user there I couldn't play against somebody else as your AI

- the language isn't really a problem as everybody who usws the internet should be able to speak english. But it looks nicer /stylisher if everything is in the same language

- are you using AJAX?

[PixelFx]

Originally Posted by Kurisu

- Well, I can play with the cards (so they are there) but they show up with no image (not even a placeholder or broken links)

- I'll be surprised with your deck idea? Would you mind telling us?

- the reason why I didn't notice the trade option was because I installed an old vb 3.0.8 on a testserver just to see your hack. And because I was the only user there I couldn't play against somebody else as your AI

- the language isn't really a problem as everybody who usws the internet should be able to speak english. But it looks nicer /stylisher if everything is in the same language

- are you using AJAX?

finally getting to where Id want this on my main site, however wondering if I should wait for your next update with the tournanment system or how much of an upgrade will their be aka should I wait till next week before adding this to my site

[Darkwaltz4]

Kurisu:
-Can you link me to this? Or a screenshot? Both of it not appearing (lol) and the 'empty' place in your inventory which claims you have it. I dont think it was a problem with the image uploader, as it errors if its not there, not the right size, and not a gif. (So it wouldnt have saved unless it was satisifed with the images)
-Even with one user you can still use the AI, it would just be less interesting for things like the leaderboard :-p
-Like I said, I plan full phrasing once I have a finite list of what needs them
-Maybe for the 3.5 version, for at least one thing which isnt in this version I want to do with ajax

PixelFX:
The tournament system will be more like an addon, so dont worry about large changes that would be annoying to update; Not that my installers are very painful to use anyway :-p I hope so...

Deck support....you know, deck support :-p You can set up cards to fit under a deck you define, with maybe some other stuff. Hard to really describe 'features'. More like functionality :-p


Still want some help with the tier numbering idea. It has nothing to do with coding, just wanted to be clear when people use it >.<

[yoyoyoyo]

Here is an "add-on" of sorts. After installing Triple Triad to the forum, many users were asking about the game, so I decided to add this to the Navbar links for Triple Triad:

In the NAVBAR template locate the following code:

		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="triad_cards.php?$session[sessionurl]do=buycards" onclick="return check_buy()">Purchase Cards</a></td></tr>

and on a new line AFTER add the following:

		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#"onClick="MyWindow=window.open('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Triad','MyWindow1','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes, status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=700,height=700,left=50,top=50'); return false;">About Triple Triad</a></td></tr>