Saving weather across all servers

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#1

I need to sync the weathers on each island individually across all servers. Some Islands could be snowing, or raining, or just normal. How can I achieve this?

I’ve tried using MessagingService, but when a new server starts up I don’t know how to get the information that I’ve been transferring to each server.

#2

You could use datastores and messaging service together.

One server could save to the datastore.

A better way to do this would be to store it on some alternative api.

#3

This doesn’t sound like a bad idea. I just don’t know if it will work 100%, because what if all servers fire PublishAsync at once, and the datastore saves them all? Some servers may be different than other ones in that case.

#4

You’re right.

An alternative api would definitly be the best way to do this. But in my opinion it’s better to just use os.time() and math.randomseed()

I will make a code example and send it to you in a minute.

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#5

As @RayK_iv said,

you can use local ChronoRandom = Random.new(os.time()) and Chronorandom:NextNumber(1, 2).

#6

To get the same weather across all servers you need to use os.time().

local currentWeather = "Clear"

local weatherTimes = {
Rain = 200,
Snow = 600,
Clear = 900,
}
local maxTime = 1400

while true do
local currentTime = os.time()%maxTime
local bestMatch
for weather, t in pairs(weatherTimes) do
if t > currentTime then
bestTime = t
bestMatch = weather
end
currentWeather = bestMatch or 'not work'
print("It's "..currentWeather.."ing!")
task.wait(300) --5 minutes
end