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How can i save the player's team with a datastore? [2]

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MythsList 38

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

01local datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("GameStore")
02 
03game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
04 
05    local team_name = player.Team.Name
06 
07    local team = game.Teams:FindFirstChild(team_name)
08 
09    local key = "user-" .. player.userId
10 
11    local storeditems = datastore:GetAsync(key)
12    if storeditems then
13        team = storeditems[1]
14        print("loaded!")
15        print(team.Name)
16        print(key)
17    else
18        local items = {team}
19        datastore:SetAsync(key, items)
20        error("not loaded!")
21    end
22end)
23 
24game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(player)
25    local items = {player.Team}
26    local key = "user-" .. player.userId
27    datastore:SetAsync(key, items)
28    print("saved! (plr removed)")
29end)
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ERROR MESSAGE: Cannot store Array in data store. Data stores can only accept valid UTF-8 characters. (At the bottom part) Please fix this, i don't know how to get the player's team (aka team (line 5-7))

DataStore2 is easier because it is simplified down. killerbrenden 1537 — 5y

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Answered by

killerbrenden 1537

5 years ago

This is how I would do it.

ModuleScript in ServerScriptService and I named it "TeamModule" -

01local teamModule = {}
02 
03local DataStore2 = require(1936396537)
04 
05DataStore2.Combine("MainKey","Team") -- You Can Change MainKey To Any New Value To Reset The DataBase
06 
07local defaultTeam = "None"
08 
09function teamModule:SetPlayerTeam(player)
10    if player:IsA("Player") then
11        local excessData = Instance.new("Folder",player)
12        excessData.Name = "ExcessData"
13 
14        local teamValue = Instance.new("StringValue",excessData)
15        teamValue.Name = "Team"
16 
17        local teamStore = DataStore2("Team",player)
18 
19        local function updateTeam(team)
20            player.ExcessData.Team.Value = team
21        end
22 
23        updateTeam(teamStore:Get(defaultTeam))
24 
25        teamStore:OnUpdate(updateTeam)
26    else
27        error("The First Parameter Has To Be A Player")
28    end
29end
30 
31return teamModule
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This is a ServerScript in ServerScriptService and I named it TeamSet -

01local teamModule = require(script.Parent.TeamModule)
02 
03local DataStore2 = require(1936396537)
04 
05local RE = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Events")
06 
07game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
08    teamModule:SetPlayerTeam(player)
09    wait(1)
10    local team = game:GetService("Teams"):FindFirstChild(player.ExcessData.Team.Value).TeamColor
11    wait()
12    player.TeamColor = team
13    wait(0.25)
14    player:LoadCharacter()
15end)
16 
17RE.TeamChange.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player,team)
18    player.TeamColor = game:GetService("Teams"):FindFirstChild(team).TeamColor
19    player.ExcessData.Team.Value = team
20    local teamStore = DataStore2("Team",player)
21    teamStore:Set(team)
22    wait(0.1)
23    player:LoadCharacter()
24end)
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And Then I have a folder in ReplicatedStorage called Events, and you should keep all RemoteEvents and Functions in there, and it will save their team. All you have to do is have the first team enabled Auto-Assignable, and the other teams should not have that enabled. It will get their team, and then respawn them on their team at that spawn. It should work, if it doesn't, let me know so I can tweak it and fix it for you. And for it to work in studio if you want to test it, you have to put a BoolValue inside of ServerStorage and name it SaveInStudio and have it enabled to true for it to work in studio.

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