Cooldown System

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#1

I wanna stop exploiters from spamming databases and remote events in a while loop, so I’m thinking of implementing a cooldown system, though the problem is I’m not sure how to do it. I have a feeling it’s supposed to do with os.time(), but I’m not sure how

#2

You can just set a bool value associated with each player

local PlayerCoolDowns = {} -- make a table to store all the player's cooldowns

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    PlayerCoolDowns[Player.UserId] = false -- add the player to the table when they join
end)

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player) -- on event
    if  PlayerCoolDowns[Player.UserId] == false then -- check if they have no cooldown
        PlayerCoolDowns[Player.UserId] = true -- change their cooldown
        --do something
        wait(cooldown) -- waits for the cooldown to finish
        PlayerCoolDowns[Player.UserId] = false -- finishes the cooldown
    end
end)
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#3

Thanks for the starter, I totally forgot about using arrays for storing stuff

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