Problem With Soft Shutdown Not Working

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#1

So I have been working on a game and finally decided to add a soft shutdown. I added one that when I shutdown the server, it shows a GUI and then rejoins the player automatically. To my surprise, it didn’t work. I am not a scripter but it was from a youtube tutorial and it worked for the person who made it.

I’ll add the script right here:

local TeleportService = game:GetService(“TeleportService”)
local players = game:GetService(“Players”)
local Shutdown = script:WaitForChild(“Shutdown”)
local Closing = false
local GameId = 6494529462 – put Game ID here

game.OnClose = function()
print(‘[Game]//Close’)

spawn(function()
	for i,v in pairs(players:GetChildren()) do
		pcall(function()
			Shutdown:Clone().Parent = v:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
			wait(5)
			TeleportService:Teleport(GameId, v)
		end)
	end
end)

local offlineMode = game.JobId == ""
if offlineMode then
	print("[Game]//Offline Mode")
else
	wait(5)
end

end

Please tell me if anything is wrong with it!

#2

I’m not sure what the difference could be, but couldn’t you use the BindToClose() function instead? It’d look something like this:

local TeleportService = game:GetService("TeleportService")
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local Shutdown = script:WaitForChild("Shutdown")
local Closing = false
local GameId = 6494529462 – put Game ID here

game:BindToClose(function()
    print("[Game]//Close")

    spawn(function()
	    for i,v in pairs(players:GetChildren()) do
		    pcall(function()
			    Shutdown:Clone().Parent = v:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
			    wait(5)
			    TeleportService:Teleport(GameId, v)
		    end)
	    end
    end)

    local offlineMode = game.JobId == ""

    if offlineMode then
	    print("[Game]//Offline Mode")
    else
	     wait(5)
    end
end)
#3

I will test this script out and hopefully it works, Thanks!

#4

Np, also if your max-player count is above 6, I’d recommend decreasing the amount of time since BindToClose can go up to a max of 30 seconds before shutting down

#5

Hmm, your script didn’t work oddly. I’m going to try it on a baseplate to see if maybe it was just that game.

#6

Instead of the system automatically rejoining the players, it showed “The games developer has temporarily shut down the server. Please try again.” I don’t know what could have happened there… I’m going to further explain what I said above as I could have explained it incorrectly. Basically what I’m trying to do is something like Adopt Me’s soft shutdown where it shows a message, then has the system do a client-based teleport into said game. For me, it would be the same game.

#7

I don’t even know what Adopt Me does Did you put the script in ServerScriptService? It should be inside there

I think you may also need to use ReserveServer to create a separate place that’ll give you time before you get teleported back?

#8

Not sure if you already watched this tutorial, but if you haven’t I highly recommend it. It explains some of the services required and is what I built my soft shutdown system off of.

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#9

Basically what Adopt Me! does is they shut down the servers, then at the bottom of the screen they have a GUI that says something like “Shutting Down Servers”. After that the system takes everyone and puts them in a fresh server with the new update.

#10

Thank you so much! I will definitely be trying this out and even making my own version. Like I said to Jackscarlett, I want to have a soft shutdown like adopt me. I have tried to make one before but I am not a scripter so it didn’t work… But this will be helpful for me to learn all of the services!

#11

I’m so glad I could help! Goo dluck on your game! :smiley: