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How could I save gear purchased with in-game currency?

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Hi guys, I've built a script for an ingame shop GUI that allows players to buy gear with "points" which is a leaderstats currency and is saved using datastores. However, i've noticed a major issue with this script which is that when a player leaves the game or dies, the gear they purchased is removed from their inventory and they'd have to buy it again. Here is my script so far...

player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

points = player.leaderstats.Points

price = script.Parent.Cost.Value

tool = game.Lighting.Tools.Speedcoil

  

  

  

function buy()

if points.Value >= price then

points.Value = points.Value - price

local a = tool:clone()

a.Parent = player.Backpack

local b = tool:clone()

b.Parent = player.StarterGear

end

end

  

script.Parent.MouseButton1Down:Connect(buy)

Please note that this is inside a localscript.

Any help is appreciated!

Anonymous

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You can save gears that they have bought in-game.

All you would have to do is create a script for a datastore and do something like this:

local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("GearData")

local GameTools = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Tools")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local Data = DataStore:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
	if Data then
		for i,v in pairs(Data) do
			local Tool = GameTools:FindFirstChild(v)
			if Tool then
				local ClonedTool = Tool:Clone()
				ClonedTool.Parent = Player:WaitForChild("StarterGear")
				if not Player:WaitForChild("Backpack"):FindFirstChild(ClonedTool.Name) then
					local ClonedTool2 = Tool:Clone()
					ClonedTool2.Parent = Player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
				end
			end
		end
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
	local Backpack = Player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
	local Tools = {}
	for i,v in pairs(Backpack:GetChildren()) do
		table.insert(Tools,v.Name)
	end
	DataStore:SetAsync(Player.UserId,Tools)
end)

Not sure if it will work like that I just wrote that code on a text editor not roblox studio but it would work something like that for a datastore to save tools that the player has

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unaccepting cus just spoon feeding full code

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