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How to save time left of daily reward?

Asked Feb 20, 2020338 views3 answers

Hello all!

im play in lobby, got reward, give only 3 hours, rejoin game again got reward after closed game, what is save time no working :/ No know how to save the time left after closing, can fix? :3 - (when close game,to need time saved)

wait(10800) -- it 3 hours = 10800 seconds

currency = "Money"	
moneyboost = 25000				
debounce = false		



	function onTouch(hit)
		if hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil and debounce == false then
			if game.Players:findFirstChild(hit.Parent.Name) ~= nil then
			local ThisPlayer = game.Players:findFirstChild(hit.Parent.Name)
			ThisPlayer.leaderstats:findFirstChild(currency).Value = ThisPlayer.leaderstats:findFirstChild(currency).Value + moneyboost
			if ThisPlayer.leaderstats:findFirstChild(currency).Value then
			game.Workspace.DailyReward.Parts.Gui.CustomPlayerTag.PlayerName.Text = "You were awarded!"
			end
			debounce = true
			wait(10800)		
			game.Workspace.DailyReward.Parts.Gui.CustomPlayerTag.PlayerName.Text = "Daily Reward"
			debounce = false
			end
		end
	end


script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouch)

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020

3 answers

✓ Accepted answer

This utilizes DataStores. A Service that allows the developer to create or and or access a database tied to their game. Simultaneously using the tick() function, we can use timestamps. Pairing it with this Service to perform mathematical equations, we can detect the time passing.

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DailyRewardTime = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("DailyReward")
local PreviousTimeStamped

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local TimeRetrieve = pcall(function()
		PreviousTimeStamped = DailyRewardTime:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
	end)
	if (TimeRetrieve and PreviousTimeStamped) then
		if ((tick() - PreviousTimeStamped/3600) >= 24) then
			--// Add Coins
			DailyRewardTime:SetAsync(Player.UserId, tick()) --// Reset
		end
	end
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
	DailyRewardTime:SetAsync(Player.UserId, tick()) 
end)

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020Edited Feb 20, 2020Permalink

5 comments

nice answer, but consider not using anonymous values in your code, it's for code maintainability, and helps someone predict what the code does before even reading it.. but great answer :)

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020#

Uh? This doesn't matter... at all, in fact, most representation of DataStore codes use undeclared variables. This is advanced programming.

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020#

i mean, when someone sees PreviousTimeStamped/3600 it's not immediately clear of what this is for, any professional programmer will tell you not to use anonymous values

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020#

for simple applications, its fine, but for production, its not. trust me, i've been in situations where there's many anonymous values to quickly comprehend the code

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020#

Well, there is only one, so don't be so pressed about it

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020#

As the other answer mentioned, you do, indeed, need to make a DataStore.

A quick crash-course on how to create a DataStore:

local datastoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService");
local datastore = datastoreService:GetDatastore("DataStoreName"); -- You can save stuff to whatever DataStore you need.
--[[
You can save player's information to a Datastore VIA datastore:SetAsync(key, value);
key is what you have saved (so like the player's UserID) and value is what you want to save to that, so think of it like a dictionary.

You can get a player's saved data VIA datastore:GetAsync(key); -- retrieves all the information saved to 'key'.
]]--

If I didn't explain it well enough, here's some resources that I think you will benefit from.

[ What are DataStores? ] https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/Data-store

[ Tutorial ] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DkYupSBUpes

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020Permalink

You need to create a datastore, I'm not 100% sure on how to do this but you can look up a video on datastore.

AnonymousFeb 20, 2020Permalink

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