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Restricting Game Access on Usergroup · **Released**: 03-04-2008

Hello all,

I am currently looking into the possibility of adding a "premium arcade" to my forum. By this I mean that members who have paid a small subscription fee will have access to a "premium" games areas, normal registered users will only have access to a smaller subset of games (but can see the premium games and high scores just not able to play them).

The first option I looked into was creating different games categories for "premium" and "normal" however there doesnt seem to be any functionality to restrict/allow access at a usergroup level.

The second option I looked into was actually running two installs of the arcade side by side, however this mashed my test forum into the ground and would require alot of code/db hacking

So my third and final option is to come here and ask if anybody has any ideas?

MrZeropage · #2 03-04-2008, 04:27 PM

about categories:

AdminCP -> Arcade -> Group Permissions
you can define "Category Permissions" per usergroup there...

about your parallel installation of two arcades: what do you want to do about this ?
One arcade seperated for premium-users ? No need for this, just use category-permissions

You may also restrict some permission for the "normal" players, all done in the usergroup settings: plays per day, posts required to play ect.

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