[FEATURE] Channel Currency for Commands

[rGunti]

This is a feature present in other bots as well. Users are given Currency while being online in chat that they can use to interact with the bot.

Main Points for this Feature

• Currency is payed out every Interval to every viewer that is active on stream.
• The amount of Currency that is payed out, as well as the Interval is defined for every channel individually.
• If the viewer is a subscriber, VIP, Mod or has other special perks, they may receive an additional payout on-top of what they are receiving by default.
• Currency is not payed out while the hosting channel ("The Stream") is offline.
• Currency is not payed out to the viewer if they are not online of the given channel.
• Certain users may be excluded from receiving Currency through a ban-list.
• Currency can be used to run commands. The amount of Currency that is required is defined for each command individually. This can be used in combination with time-based cooldown to regulate access to commands. (Note: Administrative commands do not fall under this category)
• Currency enables a set of text-/chat-based mini-games that are currency-based. (e.g. gambling with Currency)

Disclaimer: Currency is entirely fictional and is not supposed to be bound to Real Life currency. Channels may choose to grant Currency upon donations or at their own discretion, however FloppyBot does not control how this feature is used.

Inspirations & Acknowledgments

• FireBot: I had a look at FireBot's code-base to better understand how currency payout is handled there to get a better feeling of how such a feature could be implemented.

Next Steps & Tasks

• Detect & Track Users in Chat #299
• Implement system to track currency balances #300
• Implement commands to give/take currency (for Admins & Mods) #301
• Extend custom commands to require currency to run #302
• Implement chat-based mini-games to earn additional currency #303