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Why isn't my onPlayerLeft function saving Cash value?

Asked by 3 years ago

I am able to get my player Cash value to load. When I spend money in game the leaderstats change how they should. When I leave and re-join, my player's Cash value is back to the starting_cash value. I am also getting an error saying "Argument 2 missing or nil". Can someone give any idea how to make the cash value actually save?

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local CashDataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Cash") 

local STARTING_CASH = 100

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
    local playerKey = "Player_" .. player.UserId

    print("User ".. player.UserId.. " Joined")

    local leaderstats = Instance.new("IntValue")
    leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

    local Cash = Instance.new("IntValue", leaderstats)
    Cash.Name = "Cash"

    local myCash
    local success, err = pcall(function()
        myCash = CashDataStore:GetAsync(playerKey) or STARTING_CASH
    end)
    if success then
        Cash.Value = myCash
        print("loading "..myCash)
    else
        -- Failed to retrieve data
    end

    leaderstats.Parent = player
end

for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
    onPlayerAdded(player)
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)

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local function onPlayerLeft(player)
    local playerKey = "Player_"..player.UserId

    local savedCash = player.leaderstats.Cash.Value
    savedCash = CashDataStore:UpdateAsync(playerKey)
    print("User "..player.UserId.." disconnected")
    print("User has "..savedCash.." in the bank")   

end
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(onPlayerLeft)

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Answered by
Xapelize 2658 Moderation Voter Community Moderator
3 years ago

You are not updating the value in UpdateAsync. It's supposed to have 2 parameter, key and value you want to update.

replace line 44 to:

    savedCash = CashDataStore:UpdateAsync(playerKey, savedCash)
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Yes that solved the issue, but now the load part of that same script is loading the old Cash value. My prints will say how much is in the bank but when I rejoin, the Cash value is the same as when I joined on the previous test. Do you have any idea about that? I'm sorry, I'm pretty new to Lua DaGlizzzzzzyyyy 34 — 3y
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