I've tried every tutorial, I've done everything I can, but can't seem to make a currency system. I'm trying to make a clicker game based on the nursery rhyme "piggy on the railway". The concept is that you (the piggy) collect rocks (the currency) by clicking on the bed of a railroad track and avoid trains, which make you lose all of your stones. So far, I can't seem to find any way to make a currency leaderboard.
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How do you make a currency leaderboard system?
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This is a currency leaderboard system that saves (Credit to an AlvinBlox Tutorial.)
I have added some notes about how it works in the script. (This script should be in ServerScriptService)
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local GameDataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("GameDataStore")
--What happens when the player joins the game.
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
--Creates leaderstats
local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Parent = player
--Creates the Coins leaderstat.
local Coins = Instance.new("IntValue")
Coins.Name = "Coins"
Coins.Parent = leaderstats
-- This is the part of the script that loads the data when the player joins.
local data
local Success, ErrorMessage = pcall(function()
data = GameDataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId .. "-Coins")
end)
if Success then
Coins.Value = data
else
print("There was an error whilst loading data")
warn(ErrorMessage)
end
end)
--What happens when the player leaves the game.
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
--This is the part that saves the data when the player leaves.
local Success, ErrorMessage = pcall (function()
GameDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId.."-Coins",player.leaderstats.Coins.Value)
end)
if Success then
print("Player Data Successfully Saved.")
else
print("There was an error when saving data.")
warn(ErrorMessage)
end
end)
Tutorial which I recommend you follow through yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkYupSBUpes
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okay, and if I change coins.name to "stones", will it work?
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yes
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You can check out the default leaderboards here (https://developer.roblox.com/articles/Leaderboards) but you can of course implement your own GUI and way of storing values. It's completely up to you.