Question about the PlayerRemoving Event

[primal hamlet]

I am trying to learn about the DataStores and "leaderstats" and a part of that is saving values when the player is quitting the game, so i created a simple script that prints out when the player leaves the value of his "Cash" (a instance inside of the player inside of the leaderstats folder). The problem is it always prints Zero and idunno why. Here is the code and a screenshot of my workspace, thanks for the help guys <3

local players = game:GetService("Players")

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
    leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
    leaderstats.Parent = player
    
    local cash = Instance.new("IntValue")
    cash.Name = "Cash"
    cash.Value = 0
    cash.Parent = leaderstats
end)


players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    local playerStatsFolder = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
    local cash = playerStatsFolder:FindFirstChild("Cash")
    print("Cash of " .. player.Name .. " is " .. cash.Value)
end)

[orchid oriole]

When manually editing the IntValue's value, are you doing it in the client or server?

Make sure to press this and switch to the server before editing the value

[timid yew]

uhh

you do know that it doesn't save if you don't actually use the datsstore right

[orchid oriole]

oh shoot

I didn't even notice it wasn't there lol

[timid yew]

yeah its gotta be that 100%

[primal hamlet]

i dont even have datastore in this script

i am talking about the variable printing 0

it wasnt set to 0

and because of that the datastore wasnt working to

so i tried it with this simple script first

[timid yew]

oh

hm

try Kruz's method

just switch to server while testing

and then u set the value before exiting

[primal hamlet]

this was the issue

got it now running

but how do i change the value correctly it needs to be done serverside not clientside right?

so with a script and not a local script?

im kinda new to script so yeah

unsure

[orchid oriole]

Yeah

[primal hamlet]

i thought about firing a remoteevent

?

but dunno how

is that the right way kinda?

[orchid oriole]

I wouldn't use a remote event to set any save data

[primal hamlet]

i would use it to change the value player/leaderstats/Cash.Value

it then saves the leaderstat when the player quits

its just a place to get warmed up with datastorage and client/serverside scripting

[orchid oriole]

Anything involving setting data or values to be saved should be handled with server scripts (for the most part) to prevent exploiting, but since you're just using it for practice, I guess using a remoteevent wouldn't be too harmful