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Boosts

What are they?​

Boosts are ways to give members bonus points based on whether they fulfill certain criteria. Boosts activate when a point source is triggered. More criteria for when a member receives boosts, like items, will added in the future.

Creating and customizing a boost​

A boost can be created by going to the dashboard, going to the Boosts section of the Points Module, and then pressing "Add boosts".

Each boost has a multiplier or flat increase, systems, and a criterion associated with it:

  1. Multipliers can range from .01 to 10, and are incremented by .01
  2. Flat boosts can be any integer value
  3. Systems are the point systems which are boosted for a member. Only systems that are selected will have a given boost applied to them
  4. A criterion is the requirement for a boost to activate for a member
    • Currently limited to having a role or being a nitro booster
      • Boosts for nitro users are only available to servers with a premium subscription

Behind the scenes​

Boosts involve some almost interesting math, which reads as follows:

def handle_boost(amount, value_type, value):
  if value_type == "flat":
    amount += value
  elif value_type == "multiplier":
    amount *= value
return amount
  • Flat boosts are applied before multipliers
  • Multipliers are compounding rather than additive

Rounding also follows a few rules, as point systems do not support decimals:

  • Values where the decimal is less than .5 will round down to the nearest integer
  • Values where the decimal is greater than or equal to .5 will round up to the nearest integer
  • Values of .5 (exact) will round down to zero

Limits​

To prevent Discord servers from overusing Monni's resources, there are restrictions to the number of boosts which can exist in a single server.

This limit is 5 boosts for a normal server. Limits can be increased indefinitely through our premium subscription.