If I make a custom leaderboard should I still use leaderstats to propegate the data to all cleints?

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Ah.

Something very fundamental about the Roblox server/client paradigm that I didn’t get is that ALL player data set on the server is automatically propagated to each client.

So, if you do something like this on the server:

	local players = game:GetService("Players")
	players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

	    local myFolderInstance = Instance.new("Folder")
	    myFolderInstance.Name = "AnyFolderNameYouLike"
	    myFolderInstance.Parent = player

	    local myValueInstance = Instance.new("IntValue")
	    myValueInstance.Name = "AnyValueNameYouLike"
	    myValueInstance.Value = 100
	    myValueInstance.Parent = myFolderInstance

	    spawn(function()
		    while true do
			    wait(2)
			    myValueInstance.Value = myValueInstance.Value + 100
		    end
	    end)
    end)

Then you can do something like this in each client:

while true do
	wait(2)
	local Players = game:GetService("Players")
	for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
		local folderInstance = player:FindFirstChild("AnyFolderNameYouLike")
		if folderInstance then
			print(player.Name .. ': ' .. folderInstance.AnyValueNameYouLike.Value)
		end
	end
end

And you will see the updated values as set on the server (for each player) get printed out on the client also updated.

BUT of course in a real game you would not loop through the values like that you would bind to change events for the folder such as GetPropertyChangedSignal. IE Something like this:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
player.AnyFolderNameYouLike.AnyValueNameYouLike:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
     print(player.AnyFolderNameYouLike.AnyValueNameYouLike.Value)
end)

Hopefully this will help someone else who didn’t understand the basic Roblox propagation paradigm.

For all you native Roblox coders out there, something like this is kind of magical and doesn’t happen in many other languages - you often have to code it yourself.

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