leadrstats Stats not updating. What should i do?
So, i made a gui that gives you a better 'backpack' with X spaces for an amount of money...the problem is , the spaces becomes 100000 , the money is taken away but.....it doesn't work, i mean it's still the default option, and if i sell the items, i get the money back...
Here's the code
-- Lets players click a button to buy an upgrade that increases MaxSpaces
local buyButton = script.Parent
-- Variables for the upgrade
local newSpaces = 1000000
local upgradeCost = 100000000
local function giveUpgrade(player)
print("Someone clicked the button")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
-- Get's the player's leaderboard to get other IntValues
local playerStats = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
-- Gets the player's money and spaces to make changes
local playerGold = playerStats:FindFirstChild("Gold")
local playerSpaces = playerStats:FindFirstChild("Spaces")
-- Checks if player has enough money to afford the upgrade
if playerGold.Value >= upgradeCost then
print("Player can buy item")
-- Subtract the item's cost from the player's money
playerGold.Value = playerGold.Value - upgradeCost
playerSpaces.Value = newSpaces
end
end
script.Parent.Activated:Connect(giveUpgrade)
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If your button is on the player's screen, it's entirely clientside. This means that ONLY that player can see it, and ONLY that player can click it. This also means that any changes to leaderstats from that script will ONLY change for the player, and the server will not update. This is like editing a google doc while offline. While you can see the changes you've made, your friend cannot, and if you refresh the page you get the page that your friend is looking at. Let's see how you would fix this:
First thing's first, we need to make leaderstat changes occur in a serverside script, so let's place a Script in game.ServerScriptStorage.
In order for the LocalScript to communicate to the Server, we need to add a RemoteFunction to game.ReplicatedStorage. Let's name it "tryToPurchase".
This is the LocalScript inside the player's GUI
local buyButton = script.Parent
local newSpaces = 1000000
local upgradeCost = 100000000
--//This is fine, just declaring variables
local function giveUpgrade()
--//We do not need to check who clicked the button, since the player is passed automatically through the RemoteFunction
game.ReplicatedStorage.tryToPurchase:Invoke(upgradeCost, newSpaces)
--//We shouldn't make changes to leaderstats locally, so we invoke the RemoteFunction we created earlier.
end
script.Parent.Activated:Connect(giveUpgrade)
This is the Script in game.ServerScriptStorage
game.ReplicatedStorage.tryToPurchase.OnServerInvoke = function(player, cost, spaces)
--//We link this function to when tryToPurchase is invoked.
--//We create parameters for the upgradeCost and newSpaces passed along. The player who invoked the function is a hidden parameter, and we need to declare it.
local playerStats = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
local playerGold = playerStats:FindFirstChild("Gold")
local playerSpaces = playerStats:FindFirstChild("Spaces")
--//Now we can actually calculate the purchase.
if playerGold.Value >= upgradeCost then
playerGold.Value = playerGold.Value - cost
playerSpaces.Value = spaces
end
end