How to only allow players to play minigame every 30 minutes

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#1

I want to create a way of only allowing a player to do something every 30 minutes. It needs to be datastored as well. So their default time is 0

Obbies = {
    ["Grass Obby"] = 0,
}

and so when they enter a portal, it’d start the 30 minute timer, and I’m assuming I’d use something like os.time()

PlayerData.Obbies["Grass Obby"].Value = os.time()

But then I’m unsure how to compare that os.time() to 30 minutes later? Or how to check if it’s been 30 minutes

#2

To detect how many minutes are left you subtract the current time from the saved time it gives the amount of seconds that are passed

if (os.time() - SavedTime) => amountofsecondsin30minutes then
          print(¨30 minutes passed¨)
end
#3

Can I just os.difftime()?

local Time = os.difftime(Obby.Value, os.time())
print(Time)

It returns negative seconds, so that will cause problems to get the time in minutes

#4

First you do os.time() and then obby.value

#5

Pretty sure my datastores messing up with. If I set the default data to be os.time() it changes everytime I rejoin, even tho every other value in the datastore saves

#6

Can we see your datastore script?

#7

Nvm I managed to fix it :+1: So this

local Seconds = os.difftime(os.time(), Obby.Value)
local Minutes = Seconds / 60

if Minutes > 30 then
    print('Can play the obby')
    Obby.Value = os.time()
else
    print('You have to wait ' .. Minutes .. ':' .. Seconds
end

EDIT Nvm, that doesn’t work :confused:

#8

In case you still didn’t get it working, this should work.

local lastObbyRun = os.time();

if os.difftime(os.time(), lastObbyRun) >= 60 * 30  then --os.difftime() takes the second value out of the first value. 60 seconds (1 minute) * 30 (minutes) or 1800 seconds.
  print("Obby time!");
  lastObbyRun = os.time();
else
  local totalSeconds = os.difftime(os.time(), lastObbyRun);
  local seconds = totalSeconds % 60;
  local minutes = (totalSeconds - seconds) / 60;
  print(string.format("No obby for you. You need to wait %02d:%02d", minutes, seconds));
  --No obby for you. You need to wait 27:06
end;
#9

That counts up tho. This is what I got on the client to show the countdown

while true do
	if Obbies["Grass Obby"].Value == 0 then
		Title.Text = 'Can play this obby'
		Time.Text = 'NOW'
	else
		local totalSeconds = os.difftime(os.time(), Obbies["Grass Obby"].Value)
		local seconds = totalSeconds % 60
		local minutes = (totalSeconds - seconds) / 60
		
		if minutes >= 30 then
			Title.Text = 'Can play this obby'
			Time.Text = 'NOW'
		else
			Title.Text = 'Can play this obby in'
			Time.Text = string.format("%02d:%02d", minutes, seconds)
		end
	end
	
	wait()
end

And so when the time has passed 30 minutes, it goes to ‘you can play’ and when i go to play, it starts the timer, but it’s counting up, instead of down

#10

Not sure if your issue has been solved or not, but as for it counting down try subtracking totalSeconds from 30 minutes in seconds and then convert it to minutes + seconds

		local totalSeconds = os.difftime(os.time(), Obbies["Grass Obby"].Value)
        local CountdownSeconds = 1800 - totalSeconds
		local seconds = CountdownSeconds % 60
		local minutes = (CountdownSeconds - seconds) / 60

Fun fact that you may or may not know, In Soccer(football), the timer counts up instead of down!

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