Roblox Cooldown Handler Module

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#1

Hello, everyone! I thought I would share this simple module I created a long time ago which helps manage skill cooldowns on the server side. It requires knowledge on Data Tables, Remote Events, Module Scripts, and Control Flow.

The guide I wrote isn’t that good, but I just wanted to post this for anyone who might find it useful somehow.

Roblox Cooldown Handler Guide

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#2

Can I post a different & shorter approach

#3

yeah sure, that would be cool.

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#4 
local cooldowns = {}
local active = {}

function cooldowns:Set(cd, _time)
	cooldowns:Clr(cd)
	active[cd] = task.delay(_time, function()
		active[cd] = nil
	end)
end

function cooldowns:Has(cd)
	return active[cd]
end

function cooldowns:Clr(cd)
	if (active[cd]) then
		task.cancel(active[cd])
	end
end

return cooldowns

this is what i use for my game (for the client side- the server side i havent done yet but would creating cooldown ‘objects’ which have their own active cooldowns array and assigning it to each player)

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#5

this is my server implementation i havent tested it yet

local cooldowns = {}
cooldowns.__index = cooldowns

function cooldowns.New()
	return setmetatable({}, cooldowns)
end

function cooldowns:Set(cd, _time)
	cooldowns:Clr(cd)
	self[cd] = task.delay(_time, function()
		self[cd] = nil
	end)
end

function cooldowns:Has(cd)
	return self[cd]
end

function cooldowns:ClrAll()
	for k in next, (self) do
		task.cancel(self[k])
		self[k] = nil
	end
end

function cooldowns:Clr(cd)
	if (self[cd]) then
		task.cancel(self[cd])
	end
end

function cooldowns:Destroy()
	self:ClrAll()
	setmetatable(self, nil)
end

return cooldowns
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#6

alright cool thx, I’ll get to testing in my system as well and see if it works!

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#7

np
scrap the client side one
on both side just make a cooldown object and destroy & recreate it every time the players character loads cuz every time the player respawns all their cooldowns would be gone which is what you want

#8

id prefer having the cooldowns in the server side because exploiters can access them if they are created and destroyed client side.

#9

you need cooldowns on both ends for when the client does x action and the server does x action

#10

the way I have mine set-up I don’t have cooldowns on the client.