How do developers create "You played for 7 days" Badges?

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I’ve been thinking of ways to award more badges for my players. I happened to come across “You came back the next day”, “You played for 1 week”, etc badges. I’m wondering how they program these? Do they use datastores to store when the user last played?

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Yes. Using os.time()

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How would I achieve programming this as I cannot script time as I’ve never really needed to use it

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Just save the time of them logging on and check it, when they come back.

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Don’t they just save the sessionTime, which is a number, added with the totalSessionTime?

When a player joins, track their time using a timer based on tick() or os.time().

local tracker = {}

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	tracker[player.UserId] = tick()
end)

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local last = tick()
	
	if tracker[player.UserId] then
		print(last - tracker[player.UserId]) -- prints total time played in one session
	end
end

You will have to calculate the time to match a week. However, the only backlash in the example above is clearly the badge giving in time. You will have to run a loop with a long interval to check the player’s total time.