What would be the most safest place to store player data? I know storing it in the player isn't safe because it can be modified client sided what would be a better alternative that's also efficient?
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SAFEST EFFICIENT place to store player data?
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The best way to safely save player data (In my experience) is using DataStoreService. You would get DataStoreService using:
local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
Now that we have the DataStoreService, we still need to make a DataStore, by doing this we will acces or if there is no create one
local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService") -- Getting the DataStoreService
local store = dss:GetDataStore("DataStoreNameHere")
We now got our data store
It doesn't matter what you call the data store!
Now that we have accesed or created the data store, we still need to save something!
local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService") -- Getting the DataStoreService
local store = dss:GetDataStore("DataStoreNameHere") -- Getting the data store
store:SetAsync("Key", "DataHere!") -- I highly suggest using the PlayerId as the key!
Now that we can save data, we still need to load it right?
local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService") -- Getting the DataStoreService
local store = dss:GetDataStore("DataStoreNameHere") -- Getting the data store
local player_data = store:GetAsync("Key") or 0
Notice that i used or 0 this is if you haven't saved anything in the data store using that key, it will be nil! So if you haven't saved anything using the key, it will get 0 instead of returing nil!
The 0 can be anything! If you load it in a Value, make sure to use the right one!
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I really hope i helped you! If so, please accept this answer as i tried my best to explain this to you!
So if i misspelled some words, or if i used bad grammar somewhere in this answer. But i can explain why, it's easy, i'm not English so i make grammer errors/misspel some words
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This is probally my best explained answer... Lol
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Good answer, +1, keep it up
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Thanks! I tried my best explaining this :D
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Try using DataStoreService
Yup, use DataStore
DataStore and FilteringEnabled
You would only use a data store if you want the data to persist when games are not running. You should be using FilteringEnabled regardless of what you are doing, with FE it is safe to store the player data in the players object.