How would I check how long a player has been offline?

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#1

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    A tool spawner that lets u spawn a tool every 60 seconds, I have this, but I do not want to let people just server hop to escape the cooldown
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    I don’t know how to do this
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    I cant find any
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#2

What you can do is when the player leaves the game it will save a time to their player. When the player joins back you can do math and calculate how long it has been since they left and joined.

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#3

do you know what the method would be to find the time they leave?

#4

You’ll have to use save the player’s data with an entry for ‘timeLeft’.

You can set this to os.time(), and then compare the time they join a server to the timeLeft data.

os.time() - timeLeft -- time passed

You’ll also have to account for how much time on the cooldown they have left. For example, if they leave with 30 seconds left on cooldown.

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#5

Super simple, you will need to store the time at which they left and read it when they rejoin. This will obviously utilize a DataStore. In practice, the most utilized DataStore module is ProfileService, but assuming you’re just using the default, built-in DataStoreService: Your code may end up looking like this.

-- server
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local datastores = {}

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local userData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("UserData", player.UserId)
    datastores[player.UserId] = userData

    local timePlayerLeft = userData:GetAsync("timeLeft") or os.time()
    local timePassed = os.time() - timePlayerLeft

    -- do whatever with that
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    if not datastores[player.UserId] then
        return
    end

    local timePlayerLeft = os.time()

    datastores[player.UserId]:SetAsync("timeLeft", timePlayerLeft)
    datastores[player.UserId] = nil
end)

Obviously, this is a very crude example of how your datastore code may end up looking. But the example is there.

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#6

Thanks a lot! I didn’t know how to use os.time() that much until now