question

[median thistle]

And there's not much you can do about that

[woeful trellis]

Like imagine pet sim x, there must be hundreds of prevented datalosses

Ahh so like it crashes while updating?

[median thistle]

Not really

[median thistle]

How are you saving data? A dictionary or a specific data key for each player value

[woeful trellis]

But like imagine if a player joins the game and all their datas lost imagine how devastating that would be 💀

[median thistle]

See that doesn't happen though

[woeful trellis]

A specific data key using tables

[median thistle]

It will just revert back to the last save

[woeful trellis]

Wait dead ah?

[median thistle]

You would need to write a small function for that to make sure it does it every time( doesn't just load blank data) but yeah

[woeful trellis]

Like beeswarm, their games kinda unclean yet their data saves so well

[woeful trellis]

How can I do this?

[median thistle]

Wait so you're saving every single value every time just one of them changes?

[woeful trellis]

Yes

Cause it's a table

I'm I screwed?

[median thistle]

Yeah but that will cause a huge saving load if you have a lot of values to save

[woeful trellis]

Like there's tables in each key
{Coins = 1, Pet= false}

[median thistle]

Which could lead to datastore overloads, which causes data loss

[woeful trellis]

So how should I do it if I'm saving pets

Like one time purchase pets, so true if they own it and false if they dont

[median thistle]

There's some options but I would just save data for every player every 5 minutes or so

[woeful trellis]

What if I I use the table?

💀

[median thistle]

Just save the table

[woeful trellis]

Ok but like adding more pets will make the datastores overload one day

[median thistle]

But instead of doing it every time one value changes, just cycle save jt

[median thistle]

It shouldn't

[woeful trellis]

How to cycle save?

[median thistle]

while task.wait(5) do

[median thistle]

What I was saying is that if you have a lot of different values that change a lot, that could cause an overload. Like coins changing rapidly while xp also changes while pets are being saved while the players state is saved

[woeful trellis]

So u saving every 5 seconds?

[woeful trellis]

Ohhh, the pets and stats are on two different datastores

[median thistle]

[woeful trellis]

And so when I buy a pet, it saves all my pets and saves all the numb and string values in the other datastore

[woeful trellis]

Bad or good?

[median thistle]

Bad

Don't have two different datastores

Unless you REALLY REALLY have to because of data overload, don't

[woeful trellis]

Well I'm doing this cause of data overload

Because think about it

[median thistle]

^

[woeful trellis]

When I buy a pet, I update the number of coins and the pet at the same time, which will overload the key

I got an idea, what if I update two different keys, one storing the pets and one storing all the other things

[median thistle]

No it wont

Overload occurs when you're trying to save too much data in very little time

[woeful trellis]

so my setup works such that
IF any of these values update it will update the entire key
and the issue, lets say u buy a pet, ur overloading the key as ur tryna update it two spontaneous times when two things are updating

[median thistle]

For example,

while task.wait(.1) do -- will overload 
--savd data
end


function SaveGame()
local savetable = {}
for i,v in game:Getdescendants do
table.Insert(savetable, v.BrickColof)
end
-- save table
end

The second function won't overload even though it's saving a shit ton of data

Unless you save it very frequently

[woeful trellis]

well i can agree, except if i update the bits and the pets too fast (which happens when i buy pets) it will overload

cause im tryna save it to the same key

[median thistle]

Cycle save

[woeful trellis]

yes i did try this and it did overload; not cycle saving

[woeful trellis]

which is task.wait 5?

[woeful trellis]

in simple terms um whats that?

[median thistle]

Whatever time you want

[median thistle]

Just save the data in cycles of every x seconds it's more efficient and has a way lower chance to overload

[woeful trellis]

well except lets say they buy a pet right? then i update their bits, then it waits 5 to update, but if they leave in those 5 seconds then they lose bits but they dont get the pet

or if they buy a pet, then i get it, but the bits dont mark as disappeared till 5 secs later

[median thistle]

Still update on player leave :)

[woeful trellis]

except that doesnt work its broken half the time

[median thistle]

No it's not

[woeful trellis]

in studio it is

dies

[median thistle]

Your problem is that the server closes before you can save

Just do this

[woeful trellis]

bind to close? i literally swear

[median thistle]

game:BindToClose(function()
task.wait(.5)
end)

That should give it time to save

[woeful trellis]

k but then i need to get the player who left

[median thistle]

I forget the name for that

Players.PlayerRemoving?

[woeful trellis]

yes

OHHH

i put that in the bind to close?

or outside?

💀

[median thistle]

game.Players.PlayeeRemoving:Connect(function(playerwholeft)

[median thistle]

Outside

[woeful trellis]

tysm

[woeful trellis]

alr ima use run service to only make this work in studio should i?

[quiet linden]

i use both bindtoclose and playerremoving

[woeful trellis]

thanks i fixed it, i made it so that theres no dataloss

[quiet linden]

(i didnt help at all)

[woeful trellis]

nah its fine, u kinda did

[median thistle]

Yeah

[ornate wagon]

in a game i mod there is a shit ton of data loss but it only happens to one value and it changes sometimes when the game updates 💀

like in 1 update coins has the problem but another update time has the problem

idk just wanted to say that

[woeful trellis]

Ok so what if a player joins and their datas been fucked?

[ornate wagon]

then they have to ask the 1 active admin to restore it

and they both have to be in the same server

lmfao

[woeful trellis]

💀

[median thistle]

I feel horrible