Can I use badges to track player progress?

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#1

So I want to make a system that when a player reaches a benchmark in my game, they get a one-time reward and a badge. I would make it so that if the player has the badge, they cannot claim the reward again.

I’m not very good with data stores, so this is the easiest way to do it. Are there any problems with using this method to save player data?

#2

You won’t need to use any data stores (except for adding the rewards and making their stats save)

To check if a player has a badge, this is how you do it.

local BadgeService = game:GetService("BadgeService")
local BadgeId = 123
 
game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    if BadgeService:UserHasBadge(player.UserId, BadgeId) then
        print("The user has this badge")
    else
        print("The user does not have this badge")
    end
end)
#3

There’s no problems with it but it just seems like a lot more work but your choice!

#4

Read the post again, he said he didn’t want to use datastores. The actual question was “Are there any problems with using this method to save player data?”.

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#5

I found one problem. If a player claims the reward and deletes the badge from their inventory, they can claim it again.

Any solutions on how I can solve this? Anything helps.

#6

You can’t forbid players from deleting your badges,

You might wanna resort to using DataStore, as I do not see any “safer” alternatives.

#7

You can try watching tutorials. Some of them on YouTube are well documented and should be easy to learn.