I have a datastore where I indexed the player's data using their player.UserId.
The players datatable looks like this:
player.UserId = {
PlayerStats = {Money = 10, etc..}
OtherTables..
{
I want to increment Money by 10 every 10 seconds and I was wondering if IncrementAsync would be a good option.
If it is, how would I use it to do this?
If not, should I just make a local value and increment that and save it at the end of the game into the datastore?
Thank you!
How do I use IncrementAsync Correctly?
For sake of reference: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/GlobalDataStore/IncrementAsync
You call the method with a datastore key, and a value to increment that datastore key's value by.
IncrementAsync(key, value) is equivalent to SetAsync(key, GetAsync(key) + value) in terms of what it does.
local dataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreServiec")
local myDataStore = dataStoreService:GetDataStore("MyDataStore")
--// assuming there is already a datastore key "epic levels"
myDataStore:IncrementAsync("epic levels", 100)
This code is functionally equivalent to this:
local dataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreServiec")
local myDataStore = dataStoreService:GetDataStore("MyDataStore")
--// assuming there is already a datastore key "epic levels"
local epicLevels = myDataStore:GetAsync("epic levels")
epicLevels:SetAsync("epic levels", epicLevels + 1)
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I've looked at the roblox page for IncrementAsync and it's not very clear on how to use it.