Feature Shop

[saintbubble]

Basically I think it would be cool to be able to have a type of shop added to your forum where members could buy virtual items, as well as forum ranks, or the ability to access a certain board, or custom titles, etc etc

Currently we have codes like Your Shop 0.3, but I think the ability to allow admins to run a virtual shop on their forum would be nice.

My forum is for a game and in the game you can earn points. Currently I am trying to find something fun to use with these points - I was thinking hey! how about I convert to money on my forum and allow my members to buy things on the forum (would also potential increase their interest in the forum).

I don't think this currently exists or if it would be possible - but I guess that is why I am posting it in feature requests =)

[Ryan Roos]

We have a full forum shop planned for v5. We have dozens of features, requests and goals for the shop. It will likely be released in v5.x

[saintbubble]

AWESOME! LOVE YOU GUYS!

[Relic]

I was wondering if you could have the forum feature shop, but also have it editable so that staff can add made-up features (like magic abilities for characters, for instance). Ideally, it would list the item, a description of the item, and the cost. And when a member buys it, it would say in their profile that the item was bought.

A lot of role-plays just create a board designated for their shop, so that items such as magic abilities, appearance items, etc. can be bought with the site earned currency. I just figured it would be really useful if it were integrated as a feature.

[Peter]

Aug 7, 2012 13:40:16 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

We have a full forum shop planned for v5. We have dozens of features, requests and goals for the shop. It will likely be released in v5.x

First I've heard about this.

What type of shop are we talking about here? A real one, or virtual?

I feel my time spent on the Monetary plugin could be a waste of time if you are implementing a virtual shop, because depending on how currency will work for members, it would be pointless having another plugin for currency.

[Ryan Roos]

We've talked about it numerous times in the past. At the beginning of the Beta (and in the Alpha too) we collected requests and ideas for a shop. The reason we will make a shop is because we know we have so many RPG forums and we also want to make money secure. We don't want users just passing JavaScript to give themselves more money, etc. We want to make a more secure shop.

There's no reason you cant make a money mod though. Especially since ours wont be out until one of the v5.x updates.

[Patrick [ASE]]

Not that i'm interested in shop or rpg, nut i notice the gift goes to a shop where you buy gifts
so i suppose a question that should be answered is: will the feature shop be real money or fictional money ?

If it's going to be real money, i'm guessing Peter's plugin would be more popular

[Ryan Roos]

Our shop will be fake RPG currency that the admin names. They should be able to add items, etc. etc. It's an RPG shop. It has nothing to do with real money.

Here's just a fraction of my notes on this topic. Keep in mind these are raw notes. Nothing here is finalized or even promised. A lot of this was suggested by the community.


Editable Money Name: Every RPG seems to use different type of currency.
Editable Amount per post: How much a player can earn per post.
Turn off and on earn money for select boards: We don't let players earn money for just posting games and such.
Add and Subtract money: Players earn money and spend it on their own shops.
A place for the items: I had a code tweaked so it shows up under their sig.

bank system - admin can change to have interest or not and if so how much.
It would also be nice if you didn't get the interest automatically you have to click something. Of course for a money system you have to make it increase by a variable set by an admin for every post. Have multiple shops be able to be in effect like members can make their own admin approved shop. Maybe set it so each group can get different amounts of money for posting

where you can change currency and how much users get for a post/reply/edit can be different for different boards. And you can add things to the shop

create a "store" page and we can customize all of it

The members at one of my forums have been asking about the ability to trade items they have earned.

Todge's Awards/Achievements Code

Basically, I manually award each card to members as they earn them.

Members would like to be able to trade these cards, but with the data saved in the custom title area, this isn't possible at the moment.

On my forum, I'd personally disable any purchasing from the shop and I'd award each item individually and manually, but I'd leave open the ability to trade with other members, if that's possible.

points based on post length?

Auctions
- People can create auctions with a buyout and time limit.
- Only the person who created the auction + staff can remove it

-A transactions section, showing you your last 10 transactions (sent to, received from - how much etc)... Or instead of 10, if you want and could stretch to it, in the last 7 days. Or as many as you possibly can. Possibly admins/staff could see more though, just in case any problems arise.

- Possibly also, a "# richest list". The # could be set by staff.

- Being able to change the name of points
- Adjust amount of points gained per post (globally)
- Adjust amount of points gained per post (specific to a board)
- Staff can add/deduct points manually
- Adjust points gained per "Likes" of posts?... or something along that line. Since the karma is removed, it would be nice if a member gets some points if their posts are liked.

General Users / Staff:
- To be able to donate points.
- Buy items from the shop (bold names etc).
- Withdraw or Deposit to a bank.
- Unlock items by rank or post count.
- Sell items back for half the amount bought for.


Staff Only:

- Add new items.
- Disable items.
- Limit items.
- Change prices of items.
- Set interest rate per daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly basis.

Other:

- Auctions
-- Set minimum bid for item / Buy It Now price.
-- people can bid on auctions

Shop purchase would be automated, so you buy your item(s) and then you get it instantly or almost so. Staff wouldn't manually have to give each user their item(s).

Shop/Store (Points System). Quite simple. Have some form of shop and/or points system where you can donate points to people, or from the shop you can purchase items that staff have added there, for example: formatted name (bold, italic, etc).. and much more stuff.


The biggest difference between our shop and any others will be the security in the transactions. Our biggest goal is to make sure cheaters cant use JavaScript to cheat the system. We want a legitimate shop system.

As I said this is a fraction of my notes on the subject. Please do not ask me any questions on this topic or the above notes. We are currently working on getting v5 released. We are not working on the shop. If you have ideas for the shop or what you would like to see please send me a PM titled RPG Shop and I will add your ideas to our list.

Nov 15, 2012 10:53:31 GMT -8 Patrick [ASE] said:

Not that i'm interested in shop or rpg, nut i notice the gift goes to a shop where you buy gifts
so i suppose a question that should be answered is: will the feature shop be real money or fictional money ?

If it's going to be real money, i'm guessing Peter's plugin would be more popular

The Badge Store is real money if that's what you're asking. As is the future Avatar store.

Nothing you currently see in v5 is part of the RPG Shop mentioned above. That will (hopefully) be a Special ProBoards Plugin.

[Consul Riddle]

I look forward to this.

[Stinky666]

I understand you're not working on the shop feature currently, but as you know I made a topic for it, and I am just wanting to say I am liking what i see. So thanks for taking the suggestions into consideration, and even putting plenty/some to use. =D

[Former Member]

So was this idea scrapped?

[Stinky666]

Apr 19, 2013 22:30:30 GMT -8 @greedsins said:

So was this idea scrapped?

I hope it hasn't been scratched anyway. if it has, feel free to join my train that will be leading straight to where ever Ryan is, so we can kill him lol


On a serious note though, I can't speak on behalf of the staff, but I don't think it was.
I think it's a simple case of, they have more important stuff they need to make available and be ready, especially since it's now so close to launch.
Plus, Ryan Roos has always said that this will be a v5.x feature. Meaning it'll be released AFTER version 5 (not sure how long - especially since there are quite a lot of features being released in a v5.x release - hopefully it wont be one where we have to wait for a year or something stupid), because it is simply a "extra".

[Ryan Roos]

Stinky666 nailed it. We're busy and it's always been planned for later after launch. It will not be out by next Monday (v5 launch) I can promise that.

[Former Member]

Ooo neat a v5x! Cant wait!

[Thomasss]

Omg.. Can not wait for this!