While Loop Crashes RBX Studio?
I've made a script to exponentially grow your cash in a game I'm working on. It's supposed to update the value of cash on the scoreboard. For some reason, when I try to loop it, it freezes. Even when wait() is used with a high number. What am I doing wrong?
local i = 1
while i == 1 do
local percent = 4 -- Percentage to multiply by.
local base = 800 -- Base value.
local expTime = 1 -- Time in units to use as the exponent.
local differ = base + (base * (percent / 100)) -- To change to exponential growth, change the - to +.
local rate = differ / base
local answer = base * rate ^ expTime
local newAnswer = answer>=0 and math.floor(answer+0.5) or math.ceil(answer-0.5)
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
local leaderstats = Instance.new("IntValue")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Value = 0
local cash = Instance.new("StringValue")
cash.Name = "cash"
cash.Value = newAnswer
leaderstats.Parent = player
cash.Parent = leaderstats
wait(10)
end)
end
1 answer
Perhaps the reason this is happening is because you create new event connections every execution of your while loop and the wait occurs within that event connection.
Take a look at your loop. The way your code is structured you have.
while
- do calculation
- event connection
- wait
The wait function will now only run when the event is run (and that's actually done in a seperate thread so it won't wait in the while function).
The way to correct this is to move your event connection outside the while loop and leave a wait() or wait(10) within the while loop.
local i = 1
while i == 1 do
local percent = 4 -- Percentage to multiply by.
local base = 800 -- Base value.
local expTime = 1 -- Time in units to use as the exponent.
local differ = base + (base * (percent / 100)) -- To change to exponential growth, change the - to +.
local rate = differ / base
local answer = base * rate ^ expTime
local newAnswer = answer>=0 and math.floor(answer+0.5) or math.ceil(answer-0.5)
wait(10) -- left this here
end
-- moved this block outside
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
local leaderstats = Instance.new("IntValue")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Value = 0
local cash = Instance.new("StringValue")
cash.Name = "cash"
cash.Value = newAnswer
leaderstats.Parent = player
cash.Parent = leaderstats
end)
EDIT You suggested that the script was not working the way you expected. Perhaps this is what you expected.
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
local i = 1
local leaderstats = Instance.new("IntValue")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Value = 800
local cash = Instance.new("StringValue")
cash.Name = "cash"
cash.Value = newAnswer
leaderstats.Parent = player
cash.Parent = leaderstats
local expTime = 0 -- Time in units to use as the exponent.
while i == 1 do
expTime = expTime + 1
local percent = 4 -- Percentage to multiply by.
local base = 800 -- Base value.
local differ = base + (base * (percent / 100)) -- To change to exponential growth, change the - to +.
local rate = differ / base
local answer = base * rate ^ expTime
local newAnswer = answer>=0 and math.floor(answer+0.5) or math.ceil(answer-0.5)
leaderstats.Value = newanswer
wait(1)
end
end)
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