I’m going to be using ordered data stores for the first time ever. Looking for any advice as far as best practices from those of you who have worked with them for a while. Do you handle them differently in your games compared to regular data stores? You can assume I’m very familiar with data stores.
There’s not really a magic trick when using OrderedDataStores.
I personally call the OrderedDataStores once every 2 minutes to update Global Leaderboards, can be more or less, just make sure it is proportional. I think that’s pretty much it.
So you run a read and a write every 2 minutes? And is that per leaderboard, or for all of them at once?
For all of them at once, once every 2-3 minutes.
Would you say this method is still viable for games like Bee Swarm Sim, who have like a dozen global leaderboards?
There are a lot of ways to optimize this, like saving a single table that contains all of the needed data.