I have been confused on this and its been stressing me out since I am practicing datastores but just found out profileservice, profilestore, datastore2, and so on exist. What should I use. I need EVERYTHING like everything from pros to cons to what it should be used for or what not its good for. Are datastores and profileservice useful for diff things?????
#Should I use Datastores, ProfileService, or Both?
sleek violet
Also is there anything profileservice cannot be used for? Like leaderboards and other data stuff
fickle crest
if you're asking this you need a lot more of experience to really understand the pros and cons of these, but in my opinion the best data management is ProfileStore 👍
sleek violet
if you're asking this you need a lot more of experience to really understand the...
So for like having lots of limited time stuff ect?
sleek violet
if you're asking this you need a lot more of experience to really understand the...
Are there pros and cons for both? Like should I learn both or smth
fickle crest
datastore2 is really outdated, same with profileservice, profilestore is a continuation of profileservice and is really updated, optimized and haves a really good management of the data so you can construct it easily, I recommend you to search some tutorials about profilestore
also for leaderboards and things like that you should learn ordereddatastore, they are like "secondary" datastores cuz you don't really wanna store the actual important info, it will just keep track of the real data that is in the profile of profilestore, first learn bout profilestore then give some tries to ordereddatastore
sleek violet
Can I have a profilestore currency but use a ordered data store for leaderboards ect
If that’s what they are used for (may be wrong)
fickle crest
you just manage the data of the profiles with a table that will contain all his data
from that data you'll use for example the number of coins and then do your things on the ordereddatastore
but you should never use ordereddatastore as the manager of the data, it would just save X amount
sleek violet
you just manage the data of the profiles with a table that will contain all his ...
Okay. I’ll probably just finish mastering data stores since I already started. Then I’ll try profileservice after
Or store
Whatever
fickle crest
ProfileStore
sleek violet
ProfileStore
wait what if I make something with datastore then wanna migrate to profilestore
Im guessing keep the datastore and loading and make a script to set the profilestore value equal to the datastore value. Then from then on I work use profileservice for adding new data
snow ivy
Only datastore, unless you want to bloat your game