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Will this work to signify if a player has been in the game before?
If they haven't been in the game before, this will set it to true, but something else needs to happen if they haven't, my intro GUI handled by a separate localscript. How exactly would I get this to work? I'm sort of being braindead at the moment and confused. Help, please?
local player = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent
local datastoreservice = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("BoE_BeenBefore")
local beenbefore
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function()
if datastoreservice:GetAsync(player.userId) == false or nil then
script.Parent.beenbefore.Value = false
datastoreservice:SetAsync(player.userId,true)
elseif datastoreservice:GetAsync(player.userId) == true then
script.Parent.beenbefore.Value = true
end
end)
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Couple of things:
- The key must not be the player's userId
- You must either set or update async to set it.
Key
The key of a datastore must not be the player's userId; plain. So you can add a "player_" or "user_" in front of the id. Also, make sure the userId is greater than 0, this means the player is a guest.
if plyr.userId > 0 then
DS:SetAsync("user_"..plyr.userId, 173821)
end
UpdateAsync(string Key, Variant function(Variant) transformFunction)
Updates the async.
DS:UpdateAsync("user_"..plyr.userId, function()
return true --return the value you want it to change to.
end)
SetAsync(string Key, Variant value)
SetAsync is like GetAsync but there is another argument, the value you are setting it to.
DS:SetAsync("user_"..plyr.userId, 173821)
Final Product
local datastoreservice = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("BoE_BeenBefore")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player) --You didn't need line 1, just do this instead.
if datastoreservice:GetAsync("user_"..player.userId) == nil then
datastoreservice:SetAsync("user_"..player.userId, false)
elseif datastoreservice:GetAsync("user_"..player.userId) == false then
datastoreservice:SetAsync("user_"..player.userId, true)
end
end)
Hope it helps!