I need help with saving character's exp

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#1

So I’m trying to do an inventory system with summoning like All Star Tower Defense,
I’ve made it so it saves the characters you get but I don’t know how I would do it so it
creates a NumberValue and gives the value of exp it had when it saved.

I’ve looked for any solutions, haven’t found any.

So what I thought could work is to make a table where it stores the character’s name and the exp so when you join it knows where to add the exp.

Here’s how I save them
https://gyazo.com/3672121550f53524965d9e5dc2e45946

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#2

Arrays are the solution you seek for.

local toSave = {
   EXP = 2,
   idkWhat = {"tool1", "tool2"}
}
dataStore:SetAsync(plr,toSave)
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#3

So I would have to do, not full code, I’m just imagining this is it.

local toSave

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
 local key = "id_"..plr.UserId
 local GetSaved = ds:GetAsync(key)
 if GetSaved then
  toSave =? or something like that?
 else
  print("New User")
 end
end)
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#4

Then how would I be able to tell it who’s it’s parent name and the current exp it has?

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#5

Something like

local data = {
    Goku = {
        XP = 125
    },
    ['Mori Jin'] = {
        XP = 125
    }
}
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#6

But what if I have more than one with the same name?

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#7 
local Data = {}

for i, Character in pairs(Inventory:GetChildren()) do
	table.insert(Data, {
		Name = Character.Name,
		XP = Character.XP.Value
	})
end

The data table would look like this

{
	{
		Name = "Goku",
		XP = 125235
	},
	{
		Name = "Mori Jin",
		XP = 1252531
	},
	{
		Name = "Mori Jin",
		XP = 125235
	},
	{
		Name = "Saitama",
		XP = 125253235
	},
	{
		Name = "Vegeta",
		XP = 1255
	},
}
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#8

Right I’ll try it out now thanks!

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#9

What you’re trying to do with =? is the ternary operator.

In Lua it is used like this condition and ifTrue or ifFalse
for example

local bool = false
print(bool and "hey" or "hello") -- hello

You can shorthand it to ifTrue or ifFalse, meaning if the first one is false/nil then it assigns the second

So it would be something like this

local data = ds:GetAsync(key) or {} -- whichever default value you want
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#10

No I meant what should I do with what you gave to load and save it no like actually =?
I know =? doesn’t exist

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#11

So I did it and it works but it only loads 1 character.
So I’ve done the loading in for loops but it only does the last character in the array
I tried adding more for loops but nothing

#12

Can you show how you load them?

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#13

Nevermind I fixed it I didn’t know why it didn’t work but I took a break to the bathroom and puff and an idea popped into my mind. I re-did the code and it works, the only thing left is to make it so it saves the exp because currently, it doesn’t save it.

Thank you so much I should have thought about arrays.

I sent a friend request on dc so we can talk more anyway thanks! :relaxed: