RPG Integration Hack /w Battle (BETA)

RPG Integration Hack BETA by Bitsys
(vBulletin versions 2.2.6?, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 2.2.9, and 2.3.0)

This hack combines several RPG hacks into one and adds a battle hack. The hacks included in this hack are:

• Zajako's Ultimate HP/MP Stats Hack -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=37720)
• Zajako's RPG Elements Hack -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=35318)
• Zajako's In battle hack -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42715)
• Zajako's RPname hack -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=43651)
• DV class hack used with permission of J2K (aka the RPG Class Hack v3.3) ----- (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=43558)
• Mewtwo's/Rake's Original Itemshop v5 -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=38090)

In addition to re-releasing thse hacks, I have added features to all of them (or else there would be no point in re-releasing).

• The RPG hacks are now all editable via the admin control panel.
• The itemshop has been somewhat optimized and some fixes are included that reduce queries in showthread.php and itemshop.php . Also, Lesane's Store Hack has been integrated with the Itemshop. This can be toggled in the admin cp.

This means that the RPG hacks are database driven and have been partially integrated with the Itemshop. This was necessary in order to make a battle hack, which is also included.

Since most people are familiar with the RPG and Itemshop hacks, I will give a brief description of the Battle hack. If you want more information about either of the other two hacks, then refer to their original posts or download the .zip file and read the "readme.txt". If you are a visual learner, then you can scroll down to the second post in this thread, which contains the pictures of all of these hacks.


Battle Features:

• The battle format is turn-based.
• HP, AP, PP, and MA are automatically deducted based on what action a user takes, the damage dealt to an opponent, etc.
• Opponents in battle can use spells, one-handed weapons, two-handed weapons, shields, potions, or their fists.
• A battle is over when a combatant dies, retreats, or there is a draw. Battles can also be ended via the admin control panel.
• A wager can be set on a battle. Whoever wins the battle recieves the amount of money as specified in the wager. Outside bets are not supported yet.
• Battles can be either public or private, as determined by the admin control panel. If private, battles require a password and battles can not be browsed. If public, then any user can view any battle, but only the original combatants can fight.
• The results of a battle can be posted into a designated "Battle" forum, as specified in the admin control panel.
• Inactive battles can be pruned.

Getting started with the battle hack:

• In order to get items to disply in the item shop, you must select which items go with which RPG Type in the "Edit Item Type" Menu of the admin cp.
• In order to assign which weapon categories do what kind of damage in battle, you must go to the "Edit Category" link located in the "Edit Items" menu of the admin cp. Select a Battle type for the category and save changes.
• In order to do damage to your opponent when in battle, you must assign the amount of damage each weapon does in the "Edit Items" menu of the admin cp. The default damage is set to 0. The same principle goes for armor, potions, spells, shields, etc.

Please refer to the screenshots or "readme.txt" for more information.


Why is this a BETA hack?

I have tested the installation of this hack on vBulletin versions 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 2.2.9, and 2.3.0. However, because of the scale of this hack, there is plenty of room for errors. Therefore I am making the following disclaimer while this hack is in the BETA stage:


WARNINGS:

• Do not install this hack on a production board. Please keep this hack, while in the BETA stage, to a test board. The reason for not installing this on a production board is that I cannot provide upgrade instructions for going from one version of the beta hack to the next version of the beta hack. Also, this hack does not have an un-install script yet. So please remember, if you decide to install this on a production board, you are doing so at your own risk.
  
• Do not apply this hack if you already have ANY of the included hacks installed. Please refer to the list at the top to see if you have any of the conflicting hacks installed. Since I am asking that you install this on a test board right now, this should not be a problem since you can re-install a fresh copy of vBulletin in under 5 minutes, as a test board of course.
  
• There is currently no upgrade script for installing this over any of the included hacks. I will make one when this beta is completed.
  
• If you choose to install the postbit features, then an additional query will be added to showthread.php. This query is a SELECT COUNT(*) query and adds around .001 seconds to the page generation. If you don't like the idea of adding an additional query to showthread.php, then you have the option of not installing that part of the hack. See the install file for more information.

Miscellaneous:

The beta of this hack is free. The full/final release will also be free.

All installation instructions and credits are included in the attachment. If you find a bug or have problems, feel free to post them here and I will try to fix them. Please read the included readme file if you have questions. If you can't find the answer, then post your question here and I will answer it.

All hacks included in this hack have been re-released with permission of their original creators.

Screenshots are in the second post of this thread.


Installation:

Installation instructions are included in the .zip file.


ACKK! I NEED HELP!!!

If you are having trouble and need some help, please refer to the help documentation included in the .zip file. It is located in the "extra" directory.

If you need help and you have already installed the hack, make sure you check the RPG Manual link in the admin cp. Also, make sure you read the FAQ included with the manual.

MY THREADS STOPPED DISPLAYING CORRECTLY!!!
See if you are experiencing one of the following symptoms:

• All of my users are being labeled as "Guest" in the postbit template.
• No posts are showing up.
• None of the RPG variables will display in the postbit. The element/gender/class images are broken.
• I get database errors when I go to showthread.php

If you are experiencing one or more of the above problems, then your showthread.php file was not edited correctly by the installer. This problem usually occurs on boards with other hacks installed that modify the queries in showthread.php. Please go to https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2261 and follow the instructions there.


Add-ons:
The following add-ons are not included in the default installation. You must apply these add-ons after you have installed the hack successfully.

Member profile add-on
This add-on let's you display the user's RPG Stats in their member profile. See the .zip file for the add-on. It is located in the "Member Profile Add-on" directory.

Auto-update stats after posting
This add-on automatically updates the user's stats after they make a post, instead of having to click on the update stats button in the user cp. This add-on involves 2 file edits. The add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...452#post356452

Donation Queue by Darkwaltz4
Moderate all Donations. See Who is Donating to Who. All Donations go through Admins or Mods. The add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...652#post408652

Battle Background Midi System by Darkwaltz4
Full control over the music that plays during your battles! The add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...530#post410530

Randomized First Turn Addon by Moreliator
"The following code gives the challenger a 33% chance to start the battle and the challenged person a 66% chance. Works quite well. I also included instructions on how to display "Determining..." on the battle.php browse page, that way people won't decline a challenge if they see they aren't going first. ". The add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...614#post410614

Lock RPG Options at a Specified Level Addon by Moreliator
This addon allows you to lock all users' RPG options in their USER CP when they reach a certain level. This add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...111#post411111

Personal Shop Items Have Battle Bonuses by Triade
The original personal shop, allows to have an item the don't do nothing in battle. With this add-on, you can build items with bonus in battle (the bonus is in the attack now). This add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...328#post426328

Challengable Option by Darkwaltz4
Allows users to set themselves against recieving battle challenges. This add-on can be found at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...143#post411143


Contact Info:
Bitsys
Email: bitsys AT mail DOT com
PM me for a faster response. I prefer PMs.

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Update 09/04/03 @ 1:46pm
v0.68c

Battle debug messages were accidentally left on.
Minor shield bug was fixed in battlefight.php (Thanks Telchar).

Re-upload battleupdate.php and battlefight.php.

The new .zip file is located at the bottom of this post.


Finally, here is the .zip file (v0.68c):

[bgtking]

I have gotten weapons to work but not potions. I set them as potions but they still won't work in battle.

[TheVoidz]

I had installed this way back in the beginning, I think it was the first version on a test board (had two lisences). So I gave all my members access to my test board. The problem I found was that there were too many addtional queries (in the newthread and newpost becsaue of the money addtions) and with +80 users on it raped the server so I had to take the battle hack out. Has this been resolved? is there a new way to dish out money?

*edit* Also is there a way to remove a specific user from the battle part of a message board? This would be good becasue you can punish spammers without doing to much work.

Thanks,
Voidz

[Mystic Gohan]

Yesterday at 07:34 PM bharvey42 said this in Post #1237
Is there any way we might see NPC's or Monsters?

The members on my board came up with this too. I wouldnt mind seeing a whole bunch of NPC that only give you experience if it is a challenge. Like depending on the level you are at will determin a monster for you too fight.

[Bitsys]

Yesterday at 07:34 PM bharvey42 said this in Post #1237
Is there any way we might see NPC's or Monsters?

Not really.

Yesterday at 08:25 PM sonic3d said this in Post #1238
if u can bitsys can u give me the fix?

l8er
sonic

In battle.php find:

PHP Code:

If (!(is_numeric($wager))) { 


and replace it with

PHP Code:

If (!(is_numeric($wager)) || $wager < 0) { 


Today at 02:15 AM lioncool1589 said this in Post #1240
Bitsys
i still have problems battle stats not save even i run data fix
also claw weapon do alot dmg

i think those are bugs

I visited your forums and it appears that some people's stats are being saved. Is there a certain member whose stats are not being saved?

If the claw weapon is doing too much then reduce its buff value. Remember, weapons will do different amounts of damage depending on the opponent.

Today at 10:08 AM bgtking said this in Post #1241
I have gotten weapons to work but not potions. I set them as potions but they still won't work in battle.

That's because you didn't tell the potions whether or not they should heal MA or HP. You do this at the Edit items menu in the admin cp. Look for checkboxes below the columns labeled "Heal HP" and "Heal MA".

Today at 10:33 AM TheVoidz said this in Post #1242
I had installed this way back in the beginning, I think it was the first version on a test board (had two lisences). So I gave all my members access to my test board. The problem I found was that there were too many addtional queries (in the newthread and newpost becsaue of the money addtions) and with +80 users on it raped the server so I had to take the battle hack out. Has this been resolved? is there a new way to dish out money?

*edit* Also is there a way to remove a specific user from the battle part of a message board? This would be good becasue you can punish spammers without doing to much work.

Thanks,
Voidz

3 of those queries are from the original itemshop, 2 of them are mine. They can be reduced to 4 total, but that is as small as it can get while maintaining functionality. Glancing over newthread.php, it appears that there are a maximum of 14 queries, not including the ones added by this hack. It does not seem reasonable that the addition of 5 queries max would disrupt a server like that, although it is possible. Other ways of giving money have been proposed by several people, including money for referrals and a default amount of money won at the end of a successful battle.

There is no easy way to exclude certain people from the hack, although you could put them in a separate usergroup and ban that usergroup manually through the .php files. Other than that, the only way is to manually ban them in the .php files.

[SavgeDusk]

Since I can't use the Itemshop bank, what about installing the Lesane's Store bank? Would that work with this or cause problems? -- My members are complaining about money being taken away, like they had 300 when they left the board, and only 160 or something when they come back the next day. I was thinking that it might have something to do with thread pruning because when I deleted a forum that had records of the battles, it reduced everyone's post count and money count.
So I thought if I installed a bank, they could put it there and it wouldn't get reduced. But I wanted to check first, because I don't want to mess anything up with this hack.

I also have a *few* suggestions for this hack, but only suggestions, so you don't have to do them. But they'd help me a bunch and maybe other people.

- Instead of an Admin/Mod class, could there be an option to set it to a specific group? Like one for only Mods and one for Super Mods, and one for only Admin? Etc.
- I have a lot of items in the itemshop and I'd love to add more but I've so much that it got impossible to edit them so I had to delete some. What I was thinking was, can the item categories be collapsable instead, so all of the items wouldn't be listed at once.
- Members are asking if the weapons/spells/etc have anything to with elements, and it doesn't seem like it does. Would it be possible to add an elemental strength and weakness to weapons, spells and armor so that it does have something to do with the elements. Plus, it'd make things more fun. :]
- Would it be possible to also make certains items available to a certain person? I wanted to have a special weapon/spell for myself, so the only want I can do it is to set the stock to 0 and make the price way too high. ^^;

That's all I thought of right now. ^^;; Thanks and WB btw.

[lioncool1589]

battle stats not save on certain members like rollback to 0-0-0-0
it happened on me twice already rollback 0-0-0-0

yesterday bank interest 10% daily dont work

[chrisz]

Did you try the db fix Lioncool?

[kaotic]

I was going to read through this entire thread, but I decided to skip to the last page after I reached the 24th page. This is a BIG thread!

Anyway, I just need to make sure of a couple things:

1. This hack is still in its beta stage, correct?

2. This hack will work on a clean installation of vBulletin 2.3.0 without any errors, correct? If any problems have been discovered, can someone please list the errors/fixes?

I know this is asking a lot, so I'm going to attempt reading the entire topic again. I'll edit some of this out if I find some answers on my own. Thanks.

[chrisz]

Ok from what I have heard:

1- Yes, there are still bugs being fixed (some very annoying ones at that)

2- It has for some people but some had problems, all of which were fixed by people with experience with this hack.

Hope that helped you.

[Bitsys]

Today at 01:50 PM SavgeDusk said this in Post #1245
Since I can't use the Itemshop bank, what about installing the Lesane's Store bank? Would that work with this or cause problems? -- My members are complaining about money being taken away, like they had 300 when they left the board, and only 160 or something when they come back the next day. I was thinking that it might have something to do with thread pruning because when I deleted a forum that had records of the battles, it reduced everyone's post count and money count.
So I thought if I installed a bank, they could put it there and it wouldn't get reduced. But I wanted to check first, because I don't want to mess anything up with this hack.

Installing Lesane's Store bank and using that points system should work, just make sure you set the appropriate options in the admin cp so that this hack knows to use the Store's points. I am not sure as to why money is getting taken away, since there are no queries that do that in any of the files. I wouldn't think that pruning posts would do anything either since no edits were made to that file. Are you sure that another mod/admin isn't taking away points and not telling you? Did the money get deducted from everyone, including you?

Today at 01:50 PM SavgeDusk said this in Post #1245
I also have a *few* suggestions for this hack, but only suggestions, so you don't have to do them. But they'd help me a bunch and maybe other people.

- Instead of an Admin/Mod class, could there be an option to set it to a specific group? Like one for only Mods and one for Super Mods, and one for only Admin? Etc.
- I have a lot of items in the itemshop and I'd love to add more but I've so much that it got impossible to edit them so I had to delete some. What I was thinking was, can the item categories be collapsable instead, so all of the items wouldn't be listed at once.
- Members are asking if the weapons/spells/etc have anything to with elements, and it doesn't seem like it does. Would it be possible to add an elemental strength and weakness to weapons, spells and armor so that it does have something to do with the elements. Plus, it'd make things more fun. :]
- Would it be possible to also make certains items available to a certain person? I wanted to have a special weapon/spell for myself, so the only want I can do it is to set the stock to 0 and make the price way too high. ^^;

That's all I thought of right now. ^^;; Thanks and WB btw.

Heh, those are some hefty additions.

Today at 01:50 PM lioncool1589 said this in Post #1246
battle stats not save on certain members like rollback to 0-0-0-0
it happened on me twice already rollback 0-0-0-0

yesterday bank interest 10% daily dont work

Are you sure someone isn't manually resetting the stats? Is there another admin? How many people has it happened to?

The bank interest only works if you visit the bank once every 24 hours. The visit timer is not reset until 24 hours has passed since the last visit, during which time you can visit all you want, but the timer will not reset. This is a known problem from the original itemshop and may be fixed in the next version, no guarantees though.

Today at 08:44 PM kaotic said this in Post #1248
I was going to read through this entire thread, but I decided to skip to the last page after I reached the 24th page. This is a BIG thread!

Anyway, I just need to make sure of a couple things:

1. This hack is still in its beta stage, correct?

Yes.

Today at 08:44 PM kaotic said this in Post #1248
2. This hack will work on a clean installation of vBulletin 2.3.0 without any errors, correct? If any problems have been discovered, can someone please list the errors/fixes?

Yes, it should work fine on a clean 2.3.0. Any errors/problems that have been reported would be after the post I made about the last version (0.65). So, if you start reading at my post about version 0.65 (which is linked in the first post) up until this post, then you should be aware of all issues and problems people are having.

Today at 08:44 PM kaotic said this in Post #1248
I know this is asking a lot, so I'm going to attempt reading the entire topic again. I'll edit some of this out if I find some answers on my own. Thanks.

If you have any specific questions or problems, don't forget about the "search this thread" feature at the bottom of this page