WHY DOESNT MY DAMN CODE WORK

[mental flax]

HELP ME THIS STUPID DATA STORE IS FAILING ME, I AM GOING TO ONE PUNCH MAN PUNCH STYLE MY MONITOR IF THIS DOESNT GET FIXED.
MY HEAD WILL EXPLODE LIKE A BALLOON I SWEAR MY CODE DOES NOT WORK. THE DATA STUPID STORE DOES NOT WANT TO SAVE THE CHANGES THE PLAYER HAS DONE TO THEIR MODULE SCRIPT!!!! HELP ME I AM ON MY LAST TWO NEURONS, I AM CURRENTLY USING A POTATO FOR MY LIFE SUPPORT, JUST SOMEONE HELP ME, SMOKE IS EXITING MY HEAD, STEAM IS LEAVING MY EARS!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH. If someone writes something I'll give the scripts. Roblox studio just rage baiting me atp.

[hearty iris]

something

[charred grail]

ok

[frank scaffold]

Hi!

Please send us a script so uhh we can understand understand!

[mental flax]

Yeah no problem here. This is the local scripts for when the player buys the item: local Button = script.Parent
local boughtEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("BoughtEvent")
local shopItems = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("ShopItems")
local item1 = shopItems:FindFirstChild("BlowDryer")
local Cost = 100
--local dataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
--local alreadyBoughtSafe = dataStore:GetDataStore("alreadyBoughtSafe")

Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
local localPlayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local char = localPlayer.Character
local Board = localPlayer:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
local alreadyBought = require(game:GetService("StarterGui").ShopGui.Menu:WaitForChild("BoughtItemsScript"))
if Board.Cash.Value >= Cost then
if alreadyBought.isBought.BlowDryer == true then
return
end
local moneySpent = localPlayer:WaitForChild("MoneySpent")
moneySpent.Value += Cost
Board.Cash.Value -= Cost
item1:Clone().Parent = localPlayer.Backpack
alreadyBought.isBought.BlowDryer = true
--alreadyBoughtSafe:SetAsync(localPlayer.UserId, alreadyBought.isBought.BlowDryer)
boughtEvent:FireServer(Cost, alreadyBought.isBought)
--print(alreadyBought.isBought)
else
print("poor haha")
return
end
end)

[frank scaffold]

uhh

[mental flax]

wait actually nvm i think i solved it

thanks though

[frank scaffold]

balright

[charred grail]

Ah, yes, datastores in a local script...

[frank scaffold]

its not handled in the local script

[mental flax]

No what would happen is i would fire an event in the local script to the server to you know, activate the datastore

[frank scaffold]

???

wait

ok im a unc

[charred grail]

oh good

I thought you just commented them out because they were erroring lol

[brittle thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/json-error-computer-smash-punch-mad-gif-17865858

[mental flax]

Yeah no that was not the problem, the problem is if i can store tables from a module script in data stores, like if a player changed a variable in the table from true to false then that bool value would save when the player leaves.

[mental flax]

lol

[charred grail]

Yeah that's not too difficult

[brittle thunder]

yep tables save, nils save too

[mental flax]

Thanks

[brittle thunder]

i meant nils in a table, if you try to save nil on its own nothing will happen

[charred grail]

You are making sure to actually edit the table in the serverscript the event is firing to, right

because im seeing a lot of values being changed on the client

[brittle thunder]

you could look at profilestore, the modulescript you can find on google, the one that deals with saving player data for you, if you don't want to deal with datastores yourself. it has a lot of features that makes it very friendly for beginners

[frank scaffold]

isnt datastore2 good too or is it more ass than profileStore

[brittle thunder]

i haven't heard much about datastore2, but i can tell you profilestore is very well battle-tested, so you know it's good

[charred grail]

I haven't used either, but I hear about profileStore more, so it's prob better

[frank scaffold]

do you know what i wanna use and experience with? external datastore

this is a intreresting thing to do

[brittle thunder]

you're insane

[frank scaffold]

😭

[brittle thunder]

you say you want to experience it but... no.... no you don't 🙂

[frank scaffold]

yes i do want to experience it

have you done it?

[brittle thunder]

not with roblox but yeah i've set up databases before, and websites

[frank scaffold]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/external-datastore/2229847

its possible

[brittle thunder]

and connectivity between said database and a game server

yea i know coz of httpservice

[frank scaffold]

but if that IP gets leaked

your cooked

right?

😭

[brittle thunder]

not if you secure your database properly

and secure its access with strong api keys

and dont put said keys on the client

[frank scaffold]

yeah

who does that

[brittle thunder]

OP probably would in that other thread with the if then do end

[frank scaffold]

😭

it would be considered a war crime to add your keys to the local

[somber bobcat]

what are all these different data bases 😵‍💫
i only know of the normal one

[charred grail]

That post is a war crime

I wouldn't put it above him to commit a few more

[frank scaffold]

apparently its much more easier to handle data

[brittle thunder]

anyway if you really want to experience it first thing you need to do is spend about usd$10~$20

and then you need to painstakingly set up a database and webserver on it

[frank scaffold]

not much of a problem

[brittle thunder]

then you need to write some web code to act as an endpoint for your game

[frank scaffold]

but yeah its gonna be a pain in the ass paying money per month for data

[brittle thunder]

so the roblox servers can communicate with the database and store and retrieve data for it

[brittle thunder]

hang on that's the best part

[charred grail]

I want the op of the one post to respond already. Just to see what he has to say for himself for butchering my eyes like that

[frank scaffold]

but i would much rather spend money than using the shitty ass datastore of Roblox

[somber bobcat]

is there any benefit to doing all that then just using roblox's datastore

[brittle thunder]

so once you got the database all set up and working, and your game starts getting players, you then need to pay much more money to increase the capacity of the database to handle all the game servers you're getting

[brittle thunder]

no LOL

in fact it's worse

[charred grail]

I mean, there's a little

[brittle thunder]

less responsive, costs more money etc

[frank scaffold]

just read the forum

you can doo cool stuff with external datastore

[charred grail]

It allows cross-game data and is useful for things like discord bots

[frank scaffold]

yes

[charred grail]

Honestly just not worth it though

[brittle thunder]

okay fair but ye 99% of the time not worth the effort 👍

[frank scaffold]

i think you can also use firebase from google

its free

im not sure tho

[brittle thunder]

until you need to scale it up and it's not just a toy exclusively for yourself in studio only

[charred grail]

That and I'm way too poor to be spending like $20 a month just to run something that is only truly useful for niche purposes

[frank scaffold]

relax you dont need $20 a month for roblox data you can pay about $3-5

2gb is the max you need

[charred grail]

True

Still not worth it ngl

[frank scaffold]

but still using external databases is cool in my opinion

[charred grail]

It would definitely be interesting to experiment with

[frank scaffold]

yes it would

if im not mistaken you can transfer data from a roblox game to a off platform game that you made

lol

[charred grail]

Indeed you could

[somber bobcat]

is it bad?

[frank scaffold]

in my opinion yes

its like im living im coding in hell

its like satans demon for me

[charred grail]

Meh. Roblox datastores aren't that bad, especially if you're using things like profilestore

[charred grail]

Personally I find working with the normal roblox datastores decently fun

Rarely experience any true problems with it

[frank scaffold]

but yeah people like Kruz might say its not that bad because he totally knows what hes doing wit it

[charred grail]

They aren't difficult 😔

[frank scaffold]

sigh

i have like 2 years of scripting experience and im still bad at datastores

i need a datastore pill