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What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
So basically i’m working on gang system for my Army game, the problem is i have no idea how to share gang data between servers, i have gang name and gang type, i need to add also gang upgrades, but this later, and i need to somehow share data between ALL Experience servers
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What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
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What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub? I tryed to find smth on youtube and devforum, but i found only info about gangs, which saves only for 1 server, and on other servers, it got created when owner joins.
Code to save(it won’t work anyways)
local GangCEvent = game.Workspace.GangsEvents.GangCEvent
local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local gangds = dss:GetDataStore("GangNames")
local gangs = {"gang1","gang2"}
gangds:SetAsync("key", gangs)
GangCEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, GangName, GangType)
local newGang = {
["GangName"] = GangName,
["GangType"] = GangType,
["PlayerLimit"] = 10,
["Upgrades"] = {
}
}
table.insert(gangs, newGang)
end)
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For now, I can give a little overview. You have 2 choices:
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Make a DataStore. However the saved data will only be downloaded to new servers. It’s hard to share data between already running servers with DataStoreService.
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Use Roblox’s MessagingService to communicate live between servers.
You can try take a look at the documentation and if you still need help transferring the data, let me know.
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Well, so i should use both of them, to save to current server and to all servers or i’m wrong?
Yeah, if you wish the same information to be available to the new servers too, this would be the best option. Another option would be to send the data frequently trough all servers, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
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local GangCEvent = game.Workspace.GangsEvents.GangCEvent
local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local ms = game:GetService("MessagingService")
local gangds = dss:GetDataStore("GangNames")
local gangs = {""}
GangCEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, GangName, GangType)
local newGang = {
["GangName"] = GangName,
["GangType"] = GangType,
["PlayerLimit"] = 10,
["Upgrades"] = {
}
}
table.insert(gangs, newGang)
gangds:SetAsync("key", gangs)
local MESSAGETOPIC = newGang
local subscribeSuccess, subscribeConnection = pcall(function()
return ms:SubscribeAsync(MESSAGETOPIC, function(message)
table.insert(gangs, MESSAGETOPIC)
end)
end)
if subscribeSuccess then
plr.AncestryChanged:Connect(function()
subscribeConnection:Disconnect()
end)
end
end)
Well it should work, isn’t it?
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Oh, uh, not really.
First issue:
local gangs = {""} should be local gangs = {} instead. No idea why you would add an empty string there.
Second thing, you need to fill the gangs table will the already saved data. Basically:
local GetSuccess, GetError = pcall(function()
gangs = gangds:GetAsync("key")
end)
if not GetSuccess then
warn("Error fetching DS data!")
end
The third thing would be that you shouldn’t use SetAsync here. Why? Because you risk losing data. When several servers create new DataStore entries, they will overwrite each other. Therefore, I suggest you use UpdateAsync after you check if the DataStore is empty of not.
And I am unsure that this is the proper way to use MessagingService, but I will test myself.
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--// Variables
local GangCEvent = game.Workspace.GangsEvents.GangCEvent
local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local ms = game:GetService("MessagingService")
local gangds = dss:GetDataStore("GangNames")
local gangs
local MessagingTopic = "GangUpdateEvent"
--// Fetch saved data
local GetSuccess, GetError = pcall(function()
gangs = gangds:GetAsync("key")
end)
if not GetSuccess then
warn("Error while fetching the DataStore gang data: ", GetError)
return
end
--// Receive event
GangCEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, GangName, GangType)
if not plr or not GangName or not GangType then
warn("Remote event data passing failed. Missing argument.")
return
end
local newGang = {
["GangName"] = GangName,
["GangType"] = GangType,
["PlayerLimit"] = 10,
["Upgrades"] = {
},
}
--// Save data
if gangs == nil then
print("DataStore is empty, attempting to set new raw data.")
gangs = {}
table.insert(gangs, newGang)
gangds:SetAsync("key", gangs)
else
print("DataStore isn't empty, setting new table data.")
table.insert(gangs, newGang)
print(gangs)
local UpdateSuccess, UpdateError = pcall(function()
gangds:UpdateAsync("key", function(oldData)
return gangs
end)
end)
if UpdateSuccess then
print("Data updated successfully!")
else
warn("Update error: ", UpdateError)
end
end
--// Send data
local PublishSuccess, PublishError = pcall(function()
ms:PublishAsync(MessagingTopic, gangs)
end)
if not PublishSuccess then
warn("Error while publishing new gang data: ", PublishError)
return
end
end)
--// Update data on publishing from other servers
local SubscribeSuccess, SubscribeError = pcall(function()
return ms:SubscribeAsync(MessagingTopic, function(message)
if message.Data then
local gangs = message.Data
else
warn("Couldn't receive data from subscription!")
end
end)
end)
if not SubscribeSuccess then
warn("Error while updating data from other servers: ", SubscribeError)
return
end
This is what I did and it works.
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Alright lemme test it, a second.
Hmm well it works i think, now i need to get players in that gang, in case i need to make an special GUI where you can see Gang Name, Gang Type, Gang Players and Gang Upgrades. Hmmm should i add another array called “Players”?
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Well idk if this good solution, or better to add special value into player, which Value is “CoolGang” for example. Or better using that:
local newGang = {
["GangName"] = GangName,
["GangType"] = GangType,
["PlayerLimit"] = 10,
["Players"] = {
plr.Name,
},
["Upgrades"] = {
},
}
Well then i need to update Gang Players from any server, maybe by using UpdateAsync and messagingService again.
Well so i made small GUI for Your Gang GUI(It’s called like that), now last exact Problem. is to make player list and upgrades list.
Well i made an local Script initializer which should initialize gui, but it not seems to work. Here is it:
--GUI Variables
local GangInfo = script.Parent.GangInfo
local GangName = GangInfo.GangName
local GangType = GangInfo.GangType
local GangOwner = GangInfo.GangOwner
local GangLimit = GangInfo.GangLimit
local MemberList = script.Parent.MemberList
local UpgradesList = script.Parent.UpgradesList
--DSS Variables
local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local gangds = dss:GetDataStore("GangNames")
local gangs = gangds:GetAsync("key")
--Other Variables
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local PlrGang = Player.GangFolder.PlrGang
local MemberAmount = 0
if GangInfo.Visible == true and MemberList.Visible == true and UpgradesList.Visible == true then
if table.find(gangs, PlrGang.Value) then
local GangMain = table.find(gangs, PlrGang.Value)
GangName.Text = PlrGang.Value
GangType.Text = GangMain.GangType
GangOwner.Text = GangMain.GangOwner
for i,players in pairs(GangMain.Players) do
MemberAmount += players
GangLimit.Text = "Members:"..MemberAmount.."/"..GangMain.PlayerLimit
end
for i, members in ipairs(GangMain.Players) do
for i,MemberLabels in ipairs(MemberList:GetChildren()) do
MemberLabels.Visible = true
MemberLabels.Text = members
end
end
for i, upgrades in ipairs(GangMain.Upgrades) do
for i,UpgradesLabels in ipairs(UpgradesList:GetChildren()) do
UpgradesLabels.Visible = true
UpgradesLabels.Text = upgrades
end
end
end
end
You cannot access DataStores in local scripts.
Oh well, then how i should get data from this table and send it to client?
Get in on a server script and send a remote with every gang data.
Okay let me try that. (30 lettersssssssss)
