Best way to handle tycoon item purchasing

[notchloeno (chloe)]

@NinjoOnline

Ideally, I want the items to appear on the server, fully, and complete as soon as purchased. It should ONLY be the client who brought the item that sees the animations

Firstly have a look into network ownership: Network Ownership | Roblox Creator Documentation

If that doesn’t help try the following:

Store the tycoon in ReplicatedStorage. When a player joins:

1. On the server, copy a model of the tycoon into the workspace
2. On the client, delete that model. Then, copy a model of the tycoon from ReplicatedStorage into the workspace

This way you have two versions of the tycoon, one client-side and one server-side. When the player buys something, play the animation on the client-side and have the tycoon just pop into existence on the server. When I say “pop” into existence I mean change Transparency to 0 and CanCollide to true etc.; if you create a new instance then it will show on the client.

If you want all players to see a smooth animation of everyone else’s tycoons, you’ll need to do this for all the tycoons, for every client.

[NinjoOnline]

If a tycoon takes 1-2 hours to complete, it’s very very unlikely you’d have all 6 tycoon spots full (unlikely you’d have all 6 slots filled with players who actually stay over an hour)