Is saving player data in replicated storage safe?

[Skidouski (caseoh)]

Replicated storage is an environment, accessed by the client and server.
Replicated storage can be modified by all environments, but if a client does change to this environment, It will only stay like this for the client, and not anyone else. Meaning if Wins.Value = 5 and then a client change Wins.Value = 5000. Then for the server, it will stay as Wins.Value = 5. On the other hand, if the server does a change, this change will be replicated to all the clients, and updated to the new value. But the client cannot update a value without the value being changed through a remotevent or remotefunction. One concern with storing stuff in replicated storage is that other clients can see a player’s data, which might in some cases not be good. I would suggest you store temporarily player data in a module script.

Heres a tutorial for module scripts
https://education.roblox.com/en-us/resources/intro-to-module-scripts

[camomileex0]

As they said:

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I was reading about saving player data and how it is safer to store player’s data in somewhere such as replicatedStorage or ServerStorage because sometimes the player can get destroyed before the data saving script is finished, therefore breaking the script and not saving the players data.

Datastore is what they were doing, I believe.

[coolalex1835 (Waltuh)]

I store my data in a similar way in ReplicatedStorage

And yes, as long as the data is read by the server, hackers cannot change/modify it.
Storing in ReplicatedStorage is a good option if you do not want to store the data in leaderstats or across players.

Also I suggest you name your player’s data-folders by their UserId just to make reading and writing data easier.

[natty_boppin]

I know you said you were bad at datastores and I used to be (and still kinda am) bad at them too but I’d still definitely suggest using them over replicatedstorage and there’s a YouTube video that I used personally that worked for me and I think it would help you