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Points system?
Hey all.
I'm in the process of developing an online community game (don't want to call it an MMO since it's pretty much browserbased) and i was thinking a great way of extending it further into the community was to allow players to generate currency for their character by posting in the community forums. Certain categories (like the "Topic of the Week" category, or the "Serious Business!" category, but not the "Off topic" category) would award the user X# of points per post (as long as it meets certain criteria, like, must be more than 40 characters).
There was a mod for this years ago for PHPbb2 called "Cash Mod", but I don't want to use PHPBB2. that would be half-retarded.
Before I go creating an extension for Vanilla, I wanted to know if there's anything remotely like this already, to use as a starting point so i don't go reinventing the wheel. I did a few quick searches but didn't turn anything up.
It would be relatively simple in theory.
on post, check the category, if it's valid:
check the length of the post, if it's:
check how many points to award for that category/post length,
Add that to the users "bank" in the database.
Seems simple enough, but I've never written a vanilla extension. Am I somewhat close? I'm right in assuming that extensions do NOT modify any core vanilla code, correct?
I'm in the process of developing an online community game (don't want to call it an MMO since it's pretty much browserbased) and i was thinking a great way of extending it further into the community was to allow players to generate currency for their character by posting in the community forums. Certain categories (like the "Topic of the Week" category, or the "Serious Business!" category, but not the "Off topic" category) would award the user X# of points per post (as long as it meets certain criteria, like, must be more than 40 characters).
There was a mod for this years ago for PHPbb2 called "Cash Mod", but I don't want to use PHPBB2. that would be half-retarded.
Before I go creating an extension for Vanilla, I wanted to know if there's anything remotely like this already, to use as a starting point so i don't go reinventing the wheel. I did a few quick searches but didn't turn anything up.
It would be relatively simple in theory.
on post, check the category, if it's valid:
check the length of the post, if it's:
check how many points to award for that category/post length,
Add that to the users "bank" in the database.
Seems simple enough, but I've never written a vanilla extension. Am I somewhat close? I'm right in assuming that extensions do NOT modify any core vanilla code, correct?
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