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- - RankMaster v2.0 - Official Release -
- The Ultimate Renegade Rank Software
- Written By Justin Coope
-
-
- Warranty
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- This software SEVERLY modifies your user file nightly. It does make a
- backup automatically, but I make no promises that there will be absolutely
- no problems. It works fine for me and my beta testers, and I am not
- responsible for any damage it may cause to you.
-
- DO NOT USE RANK MASTER ON ANY RENEGADE VERSION EARLIER THAN 02-27 !!
-
- Rank master is only made for versions 02-27 Beta and above. It will
- reek havoc on any Renegade BBS dated earlier than 02-27.
-
-
- What it does
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Noticing problems with your users? Are they all leeches? Getting no uploads,
- are your message bases empty? Here's your answer. RankMaster can make your
- BBS one of the best in a short time, just by getting your users competing
- with each other... This really works! Here's what it does:
-
- Every time you run the maintenance, RankMaster will go through your user
- lists and give people a certain number of points, depending on how many
- Kilobytes they have uploaded, and how many messages they have posted. It
- then takes this point value, and gives your users a rank that you have
- defined depending on the amount of points they have accumulated, and raises
- their SL and DSL accordingly.
-
- You can have up to 10 ranks in the non-registered version, or up to 100
- in the registered.
-
-
- How to Use It
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Ok, now we come to interesting part. RankMaster is incredibly simple to
- set up, and has many features you can use. Just put all the files that
- came with the archive into their own directory, and run Rankcfg. The
- first time you run it, it will set up RankMaster to all your
- specifications. If you need to change anything after that, you can use
- option 1 from the main menu of Rankcfg. There are two things that may
- be confusing about the setup. One is the Kilobytes for 1 point. This is
- just how many kilobytes you want a person to have to upload to get a point,
- and the default is 100. The other is the Zeroname and the Zero SL and DSL
- levels.. These are for a user that has absolutely NO points, and may
- have just logged on, or has just played doors all his life.
- After you finish setting that up, use option 2 from the main menu, and set
- up some ranks!
-
- Setting up ranks:
-
- You can have up to 10 ranks if you haven't registered.. Each rank has 4
- catagories:
-
- Name - This is pretty obvious
- SL - Security level your users will get for having this rank
- DSL - Download Security level your users will get for having this rank
- Points - How many points your users will need to get this rank.
-
- I eventually plan to add more categories, but for now this is what there
- is. When you "A"dd a rank, it puts it in the correct position on the list
- itself, depending on how many points you need to get it.
-
- Now run RNKMAINT. This should be run AT LEAST once per day, but preferably
- more. After running this, the user's City/State will become his rank,
- and the Debit field of his account will be his total points.
-
-
- Special Options
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- There are several things that RankMaster can do that may help you with
- some problems I have encountered.
-
- Giving Users Credit :
-
- Say a user sent you a donation of $5, and you wanted to give him an extra
- 50 points for the donation. Go into your user editor, and change the
- "CREDIT" field of his subscription setup.. I think it's option 5 or
- something. Whatever number you put there will be added to his total
- points when the maintenance is finished.
-
- Pass-Thru Users :
-
- You may want to have Rank Master skip some users in your user base, such
- as Co-SysOps or people whom you don't want their access affected
- by Rank Master. To do this, turn their AR flag "F" on. This will cause
- Rank Master to skip their accounts when it comes to them during maintenance.
-
-
- Creating Menus with Rank Master
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you would like to make menus and write messages to your users showing
- their rank and point totals, use the MCI Codes @G and @m. @G is the users
- Rank, and @m is their total points. Example:
-
- Welcome, @A, you are a @G with @m points.
-
- This would look to them like :
-
- Welcome, <USER NAME>, you are a loser with 20 points.
-
- Or something like that.
-
-
- Registration
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you Register Rank Master, you will recieve your personal code and the
- newest version (uploaded to your BBS). You will then have the ability to
- have up to 100 ranks, and remove that annoying "UNREGISTERED" beaping.
- Please send the small sum of $5 to:
-
- Justin Coope
- 1757 Cumulus Ct NW
- Salem, Or
- 97304
-
- Please include your name, address, and BBS name and number.
- Your Registration code will be based solely on your BBS Name. Please
- make sure that this is EXACTLY how you want it to look. If you ever
- plan to change your BBS name in the future, you must notify me and
- I will get you a new registration code.
-
-
- Support and Services:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- For support, help, and to grab the latest version of Rank Master, call:
-
- The Impact BBS
- (503) 399-9226
-
- 12oo,24oo,96oo,14.4k
- v.32 + v.42 Bis supported
- Fido: 1:3406/2
-
- Revision History:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- v1.0 - First Alpha testing of Rank Master began.
- v1.1 - Added Top 20 User Bulletin
- v1.2 - Added Pass-Thru users
- v1.3 - Main Beta Release
- v1.4 - First public release
- v1.5 - Made it easier to Re-Configure system options, re-vamped
- the maintenance program. Fixed a few bugs.
- v1.6 - BUG FIX! Added quicker, easier registration feature. Made
- output faster, and added a couple new config options.
- v1.7 - Another Major Bug Fix! Fixed delete Rank command, nailed
- the bug that made users with too many points achieve the
- lowest rank, made configuration easier, fixed scrambled
- rank lists bug, deleted TONS of excess code (I must have
- drank too much pepsi while I wrote this!)... And lots of
- other things that seem to have slipped my mind.
- v2.0 - First official release of Rank Master. Seemed to have
- finally worked all the bugz out, added ANSI menus and
- screens for the Maintenance and Config programs, and
- re-worked some of the code a little. Added stuff in
- the dox on how to make ANSI menus and use the MCI
- codes. It is now COMPLETELY Idiot Proof <grin>.
-
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- Copyright (c) 1993 Digital Dementia Software.
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