Will this prevent dataloss

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My game drops tmrw and I need some tips quick. Should I use a badge to detect if the player has data. Pretend the player joins and it doesnt work and their data is 0. Then the player will lose it with my auto save every 2 mins. Should I kick the player if they have the welcome badge but data is nil because I set data to 0 for players with nil wins.

[pale oar]

just use a welcome badge

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yeah ik but what if thats down also at the same time. Should I kick the player at that point

[pale oar]

wdym "down"

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not working on robloxs end

if roblox is down sometimes datastores or badgeservice may be down

and if its down calls will fail

causing dataloss with my auto update system

[pale oar]

just kick the player

badgeservice is almost never down when people can join

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Datastores piss me off bro 😭

apparently some big games use profile store and its easier to prevent data loss so ill do that for future projects

[untold dock]

use profile store

default datastore sucks, especially for big games

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so your saying get rid of my entire system and do profile store

would that be faster then making a good datastore system?

learning smth entirely new?

[untold dock]

yes

[untold dock]

ye, its better, first thing I realized on my first game is default datastore sucks

i even get datalost while testing in studio

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Does profilestore handle the hard stuff for you?

[untold dock]

idk really, i just copy paste my datastore from my old game

not that hard to setup

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a day to learn and setup?

[untold dock]

heres one as example

put that in server script then in server storage u gotta have the profilestore module somewhere with the Template as the starting data of new player, example

make another module for this name it Template or somethin

return {
    Cash = 7500,
    Rebirth = 0,
    Steals = 0,
    LastOnline = 0,
    ClaimCash = {},
    Units = {},
    Index = {},
    Returning = false,
}

-- also make another one named Data_Manager, if u wanna access player data without going to in game values

local DataManager = {}

DataManager.Profiles = {}

return DataManager```

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@untold dock maybe I should drop the game with normal datastores then switch to profileService next update3