Hello! I was recently wondering how I should go about making a system to temporarily ban a user from a game.
For example:
:ban username 1d – Bans a user for one day.
I truely have no clue how to go about doing this, the only way I could think is if I used some sort of webservice to save all of the users ban data and each minute subtract from it until I have a time less then 0 and delete the ban.
When banning them store the os.time from the server they were banned on, and when they rejoin simply check if the current server os.time minus the stored one is greater than the amount of seconds in a day.
The main problem is server shutdowns as well as the users just joining a different game.
Which is why you store the ban on say a DataStore, so when they rejoin you can just GetAsync the key and check the value stored (if any) for the ban.
Yeah I figured as much. I just didn’t have a very good way of figuring out the times. Thank you so much!
Here is a script showing you how you could do it made by a SyncAdmin plugin maker
local Players = game:GetService("Players");
local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService");
local function TimeFormat(TimeInSeconds)
local Rounded = math.ceil(TimeInSeconds);
local Calculated do
if Rounded >= 31104000 then -- Time in seconds of a year
Calculated = {math.ceil(Rounded/31104000), "year(s)"};
elseif Rounded >= 604800 then -- Time in seconds of a month
Calculated = {math.ceil(Rounded/2592000), "month(s)"};
elseif Rounded >=604800 then -- Time in seconds of a week
Calculated = {math.ceil(Rounded/604800), "week(s)"};
elseif Rounded >= 86400 then -- Time in seconds of a day
Calculated = {math.ceil(Rounded/86400), "day(s)"};
elseif Rounded >= 3600 then -- Time in seconds of an hour
Calculated = {math.ceil(Rounded/3600), "hour(s)"};
elseif Rounded >= 60 then -- Time in seconds of an minute
Calculated = {math.ceil(Rounded/60), "minute(s)"};
else
Calculated = {math.ceil(Rounded), "second(s)"};
end
end
return Calculated
end
local command = {};
command.PermissionLevel = 2;
command.Shorthand = {"tban"};
command.Params = {"PlayerList","..."};
command.Usage = "tempban Player1,Player2 Number Minutes/Days Reason";
command.Description = [[Temporary bans someone for a certain amount of time. Acceptable time types: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years]];
command.Init = function(main)
Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
local Data = DataStore:GetDataStore(player.UserId.."_SyncAdminTempBan")--UserId is static, Name isn't.
local TimeInSeconds = Data:GetAsync("TimeLeft")
local ReasonForTBan = Data:GetAsync("Reason")
if TimeInSeconds == nil then
Data:SetAsync("TimeLeft", 0)
else
TimeInSeconds = tonumber(TimeInSeconds)
if ( TimeInSeconds > 0 and TimeInSeconds - os.time() > 0 ) then
local format = TimeFormat(TimeInSeconds - os.time());-->This will return a table, format[1] --> Time left, format[2] --> The time format
local display = format[1]..format[2];
local reason = ReasonForTBan
player:Kick("You have been kicked from the server.\nReason: "..reason..".\n Time left until ban is lifted: "..display..".");
end
end
end)
end
command.Run = function(main,user,players,...)
if user == nil then error("No user found.") else
local Suffix = {...}
local TimeLength;
local Time;
local Reason;
if Suffix[1] ~= nil and Suffix[2] ~= nil then
if (Suffix[1]:match("%d+")) then
Time = tonumber(Suffix[1]:match("%d+"))
local Argument = Suffix[2]:lower()
if (Argument == "s" or Argument == "sec" or Argument == "second" or Argument == "seconds") then
Time = Time;
elseif (Argument == "m" or Argument == "min" or Argument == "minute" or Argument == "minutes") then
Time = Time * 60;
elseif (Argument == "h" or Argument == "hour" or Argument == "hours") then
Time = Time * 3600;
elseif (Argument == "d" or Argument == "day" or Argument == "days") then
Time = Time * 86400;
elseif (Argument == "w" or Argument == "week" or Argument == "weeks") then
Time = Time * 604800;
elseif (Argument == "mt" or Argument == "month" or Argument == "months") then
Time = Time * 2592000;
elseif (Argument == "y" or Argument == "year" or Argument == "years") then
Time = Time * 31104000;
else
error("Invalid second argument.");
end
print(Time)
TimeLength = TimeFormat(Time)[1].." "..TimeFormat(Time)[2];--Time instead of Suffix[1] Weird.
Reason = table.concat(Suffix, " ", 3) or "Unspecified";
else
error("Invalid first argument.");
end
else
error("Invalid amount of arguments.");
end
local plrnames = {};
for _,player in pairs (players) do
if not (SyncAPI.GetPermissionLevel(user) > SyncAPI.GetPermissionLevel(player)) then
return false, "You cannot run this command on someone with a higher permission level than you.";
else
local Storage = DataStore:GetDataStore(player.UserId.."_SyncAdminTempBan");
local TimeStorage = Storage:GetAsync("TimeLeft");
local ReasonStorage = Storage:GetAsync("Reason");
local Reason = game:GetService("Chat"):FilterStringAsync(Reason, user, player);
local TimeLeftUntilLift = Time + os.time()
Storage:SetAsync("TimeLeft", TimeLeftUntilLift);
Storage:SetAsync("Reason", Reason);
player:Kick("You have been kicked from the server.\nReason: "..Reason..".\n Time left until ban is lifted: "..TimeLength..".");
table.insert(plrnames, player.Name);
end
end
return true,"Temporary banned "..table.concat(plrnames, ", ").." for: "..TimeLength..", Reason: "..Reason..".";
end
end
return command;