I’m making a “Steal a” game and I want to add offline cash, but I don’t know how to calculate it. I know you need their CPS and time since last join, but I don’t know exactly how.
When the player leaves the game, add the current os.time() to their datastore.
When they rejoin, you do os.time() - TIME_IN_DATASTORE to calculate the time they were offline (in seconds).
To calculate the money this would earn, you would need to look at whatever object/things they currently have, and how much each of them earns per second (Money / Time). You would then sum all the earnings per second, and then multiply it by the offline time.
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The games seem to have a cap or divide the earnings, because some things that would earn around 8 billion in around an hour, would be the earnings after a day of not playing.
If you want to set a cap on the time they can be offline, then you would do something like
local Cap = 3600 * 24 -- 1 day
local TimeOfflineRAW = os.time() - TIME_IN_DATASTORE
local TimeOffline = math.clamp(TimeOfflineRAW, 0, Cap)
And if they divide the earnings - just add / 5 (or some other value) in the money calculation
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They most likely do Indeed divide the earnings. I believe most AFK/Offline games do that, as I know of games that have an “Offline Earnings Multiplier”. What Seargent is saying is good.
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