Best way to Save if Player owns item?

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#1

I’m making a system where players can buy Vehicles for a one time fee, and then would save for other servers.

How would I go on about doing this? (EFFICIENTLY)

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#2

Gamepass if there’s not tons of them.

If there’s a lot, dev product + datastore

#3

Bought with Ingame money,

#4

Data stores allow for data persistence within a game. Using data stores, associate each player with a dictionary of items they own structured like so:

local playerItems = {
    Apple = true,
    Pineapple = true,
    Sword = true,
}
-- checking for item
if playerItems[itemName] then
    print("player has item")
end
-- giving item
playerItems[itemName] = true
-- removing item
playerItems[itemName] = nil

This allows for item ownership setting and getting with a constant time complexity and is, in general, easier to use and understand.

There are several resources that teach you how to use data stores:

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#5

How are you currently storing the in-game money players collect? Saving what items the player owns would be implemented similarly. I would highly advise you to make a single data store key for each player that contains a table with all of their data, including their balance of in-game currency and their inventory of bought items. That way you can utilize the table to store whatever data you want to store.

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