Is there a better way to get a players username from their id?

[thenormalelevator3 (via)]

Hi! I have a game that has alot of leaderboards, and a big problem with them is that whenever a new player score loads, it needs to get the players username from their id using GetNameFromUserIdAsync() (which has a rate limit that often gets hit), I have a cache for names that have already been loaded but leaderboards fail to load pretty often when a server is first created and none of those names are cached yet

Is there a better way to get these usernames without getting rate limited? Thx!

[TheAntOfTheWorld]

Hi! Can’t you just get their username with Player.Name or Player.DisplayName instead of using id?
Or Maybe get the player by id first and then get their name with the player?

[TestyLike3]

This is a leaderboard, I doubt that’s possible if they’re not in the server.

[12345koip]

To not get rate limited, I found you can add a simple task.wait() statement between requests. it’s worked for me about 95% of the time, but even then, it’s just a leaderboard and it doesn’t matter so much if it fails. I don’t think there’s another way, though…

@TheAntOfTheWorld

Can’t you just get their username with Player.Name or Player.DisplayName instead of using id

no cuz it’ll be for players not in the game server.

[thenormalelevator3 (via)]

Ah yea, that seems like the best thing id be able to do for this, Thanks!