TOKENZ....their purpose explained here

[mdvaldosta]

Tokens are now up and running. The purpose of tokens, in addition to bragging rights will also be for purchasing special perks - for example (these haven't been finalized yet) for xx amount of tokens you can purchase a special title rank under your username calling yourself whatever you want, you could purchase access to a photo gallery, special fonts and colors for posting, etc. You can even bet your tokens in the gameroom! But, for now until thats hammered out, let me tell you how tokens are awarded.

How tokens are awarded
*For signing up, and all current members, you will recieve 50 tokens.
*Creating a new thread = 5 tokens
*Replying inside of a thread you started = 3 tokens
*A normal topic reply = 2 token
*A small bonus based on how many words you type in your post.
*Spam control, limits tokens on all posts over 50 in an 8 hour period

Games:
*For playing a game = -2 tokens (goes into the jackpot for the game)
*Getting the gold trophy (high score) for the game = 25 tokens
*goal is to make roughly 5-10 tokens per game played, but more or less can be made depending on how well you do.
*For rating a game = 10 tokens
Individual game Info, 1 token given per xx number of points shown below:
Shell = 2,500,000
Jewels = 5,000
Mahjongg = 200
Mini Putt 2 = 0 (reverse scoring, high score is 50 tokens + jackpot))
Breakout 2 = 10,000
New Space Invaders = 1,500
Moonlander = 0 (reverse scoring, high score is 50 tokens + jackpot)
Duckhunt = 15,000
Vlax = 250
Solitare = 50
Asteroids = 2,000
Demonic Defense = 100,000
Submarine = 5
Drive By = 2,500
Snake = 10
Balloon Bomber = 10,000
Chainsaw = 5
Tetris = 4,000
Basketball = 5
Frogger = 500
Wheel of Fortune = 250,000
Alien Attack = 10

Special Token Awards:
*If you make a "great" post you might be awarded 10 tokens
*If you make an "awsome" post you might be awarded 25 tokens
*There will be special contests here and there in which token rewards may be given, for example currently there is a reward for creating a site logo if I decide to use it for our forums.
*You may lose some tokens if you piss me off about something(muahahaha)
*If you invite someone to the boards and they join up, have them let myself or Veronica know about it and well award you some tokens.

Future plans:
*Open to suggestions, but will be incorperating ways to "spend" your tokens. Plans do include, but no certain timeframe, to have a lottery / raffle where you purchase tickets for tokens, special features that can be unlocked by spending tokens, making different forums count differently for tokens (for example giving more tokens for creating a post in the video's section), being able to gamble your tokens in a casino, etc.



If you have any questions about tokens, this is the place to post them. Enjoy! It was alot of work getting the gameroom setup and the token system in place and working between the two - but it will I think be one of the coolest things about our boards.

 

[Veronica]

also if you piss me off by posting certain pics.. I will take some tokens away LOL....



muahahahahahahaa muahahahaha lol..

 

[RedStangGT2000]

So why do you loose tokens when your not playing games?

 

[OUZBnd]

can we earn buy porn with tokens?

 

[mdvaldosta]

So why do you loose tokens when your not playing games?

thats not an accurate statement. You only lose tokens when starting the game, it costs you 3 tokens - which go into the jackpot which will be awarded when a high score is broken. You earn points as you play the game, the better you play the more you make. If you have a shitty game you should at least be able to break even. Because the games cost money to get jackpots is why I started everyone with 50 tokens.

edit*** jackpot anti for games has been reduced to 2

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

man this site is really coming along- good work joe. just wondering about how many tokens for a new rank under my name? when you get around to adding the feature (no hurry).

 

[mdvaldosta]

I've thought about that too, right now I can't figure out how to do it.. I can give tokens to everyone based on rank, give different amounts of credits for posts based on rank, but dont have a feature to do what you asked. I'd have to find some sort of hack for that.

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

cool, dont bust your back on it though. it isnt too important to me, i just thought it would be cool.

 

[artisan00]

do you have the source code for the site? if you do, theres always a way

 

[mdvaldosta]

of course I have the source, its open... my knowledge of the language its written in isn't very good though. I can edit it to an extent but I don't have a thorough enough knowledge to edit it without some help.

 

[artisan00]

where did you get the code from? i dont know how much time i have but i can try and take a look at it - its in php i assume? (given the logo, safe assumption i guess)

i dunno if i can test anything since i dont have a webserver at home to run it off of but maybe i can look at the code and see where you can add the stuff. ive done php before (a while back, im rusty, but may be possible) and i do java for a 'living' :blah

 

[mdvaldosta]

php is open source, the main website has the code Im sure

 

[artisan00]

didnt look much at it, but i think one way you could do it is through the profile edit page. im not sure how profiles are stored, but theoretically, you could store a variable with each user (similar to the prefernces like 'automatically email me with replies" and such.) that basically is a boolean value that says whether or not someone has the 'right' to change the title. then, in the code that shows the edit page, there woudl be a row that is displayed conditionally (baed on that variable) taht would let you change your title (same as changing name or something).

and to 'buy' the right, you could just add a button to the same page that would simply subract the tokens from the user.

this was wa pretty glossy overview but you get the idea.

 

[mdvaldosta]

if only it were that simple. it wouldn't be a problem adding in the button or storing the booleon... incorperating it into the cash (token) mod would be the hard part for paying for the feature... same for giving bonuses when ranks are hit.

Token update... fixed both the golf and moonlander scoring so it reverses... had to delete all the information with both though so its starting over. golf was fixed a few days ago... moonlander just now.

 

[StangMang]

So can we buy parts for our stangs with these?

 

[artisan00]

is the token mod something you added or is it part of the standard code?
(i downloaded it last night, and i am going to try and get it running tonight so i can try and help you out with it)

 

[Veronica]

what are the token stats for the rest of the games?

 

[mdvaldosta]

is the token mod something you added or is it part of the standard code?
(i downloaded it last night, and i am going to try and get it running tonight so i can try and help you out with it)

its added

 

[HOTRODSnBOOZE]

What are tokens and what are they for? :tard J/K

 

[RedStangGT2000]

RE: TOKENS....their purpose explained here

For idiotic comments :rofl