Performance impact on storing pure number data

[ChefLadd (brug)]

So this is more of a technical question that I’m looking more at deep-level performance knowledge for.

Say theoretically, I stored a table on the server with the proper cleanup implementations for players leaving/dying/joining, and within that table I stored the state of every weapon in the game. For example:

[Player1] {
    [Gun1] {
        [Damage] = 10,
        [Mag] = 8,
        [Ammo] = 30,
        [Firemode] = "Single"
    },
    [Gun2] {
        [Damage] = 15,
        [Mag] = 12,
        [Ammo] = 20,
        [Firemode] = "Burst"
    }.
},
[Player2] {
    [Gun1] {
        [Damage] = 10,
        [Mag] = 14,
        [Ammo] = 30,
        [Firemode] = "Single"
    },
    [Gun2] {
        [Damage] = 15,
        [Mag] = 5,
        [Ammo] = 20,
        [Firemode] = "Burst"
    },
    [Gun3] {
        [Damage] = 7,
        [Mag] = 26,
        [Ammo] = 35,
        [Firemode] = "Auto"
    }
}

What would the impact on server performance be for a scale of 200 players in a single game instance?
In addition, are there any better ways to accomplish this while still keeping the numbers easy to reference, cleanly stored and secure?

[Wigglyaa]

I’m not going to be able to give you any exact figures on this, but here are a couple of suggestions.

Caching the values in a table, as you are doing, will be much more efficient than relying on datastores or memorystores, even if it does have a higher memory cost (although as these aren’t complex types it is still pretty low cost).

Would the gun data for each player be different? For example if two players have a pistol, would they both have the same fire rate, mag size etc (not ammo obviously). As you could use a reference to a table of static gun data rather than replicating it into each player profile, then just record modifiers and ammo.

[ChefLadd (brug)]

Yeah, gun stats would be static barring Ammo, it’s just thinking up a solution of keeping all the data centralised for easy access, such as updating UI information. Though, thinking about it, I could just keep static info stored in a ModuleScript alongside gun functions (to mitigate events) and have Ammo stored in a table for UI update referencing. Just wanted to get a little feedback in regards to how performant caching data into a table would be server-side.