How often should a leaderboard be updated in order to keep the game smooth?

Help and Feedback Game Design Support
#1

Hi everyone, first, I’m sorry if this is the wrong category but I didn’t really know where to put it…

Here is my question: I have a global leaderboard in my game, and it updates regularly to show the top players, but I don’t really know how often I should make it update. I want it to be updated as much as possible but without making it lag the game. How much time would you think is good?

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#2

i put it at 120 seconds for now (2mins). what do you think?

#3

I’d say two minutes are more than enough to keep the game running smoothly. I don’t think datastores should directly lag your game.

#4

This should probably be in #help-and-feedback:scripting-support and two minutes will definitely not lag, you can probably shorten it to one minute without slowing down gameplay at all.

#5

Nah, based on the About the Game Design Support category post Roblox made, I think this would count under

because I assume he’s looping his script to get the data, and this seems like a general question about how to use loops efficiently.

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#6

I think 2 minutes is too much, I would recommend you to keep this into 30-60 Seconds.