User id Admin Ban GUI?

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#1

Alright, so this game im working on has constant people breaking the rules but whenever i go to ban them they just leave, Im thinking of making a GUI that allows me to ban them via there user ID so even if they leave they will be banned is there any way of making this?

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#2

There are a few admin commands that lets you ban people in-studio,but this could be a great idea,as you can get an player id.

Make an UI/Command,that gets the ID of the player,and then you can ban them.

Regarding how to do it,i would say i have almost no idea.

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#3

Have all submitted UserIds from the UI be entered into a datastore, when a player joins, compare their ID to the list and see if it is on there. If it is, kick them.

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#4

What do you mean by as soon as I go to ban them?

#5

I actually JUST made an admin console and released it to the public, take a look!

Basically, what this does it is gives admins of your choice a console to ban players within a server for however long you want, or it gives you the option to permanently ban them. This works by using datastore to save the time that you banned them to their unique user ID, and wont allow them to come back until the timer runs out, unless its a permanent ban.

I also included an unban option if a mistake was to occur.

I’m still working on this console but it works right now. Next I’m working on banning players that arn’t even in the game (Via ID) but I can probably tell you how to do that if you want.

Hope this helps! feel free to use the console!

EDIT: Oh jeez, if you took this when I posted it, You may need to re-insert it inside of your game, I forgot to commit my changes when I published and it did not save! Sorry!

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#6

There is a really straight forward way to achieve this, you will have to write the code yourself as spoon feeding won’t teach anything. But I can tell you the steps you need to take in your code.

First Step
Make your GUI, and just show it to yourself which you are able to do in code. Your GUI will probably have a input text box and action button to ban the player.

Second Step
You make a remote event in ReplicatedStorage and fire it when the action button is pressed and input value is passed to the Remote event.

Third Step
You need to make a server script which will do the following:

  1. Add that user ID to a data store
  2. If player is in game then kick him

Fourth Step
Now you just need to check the player’s ID when they join and if it matches any ID in the data store then kick them.

#7

It’s a moderate scripting task. You first need to make a GUI with textboxes and buttons. After that, you would need to script it so that it adds Player.UserId to a table that eventually saves to a DataStore. Then you would have to script a PlayerAdded function that compares the UserId to the table and if it’s true then use Player:Kick(“Banned”) to kick them out of the game when they join.

#8

or If making a banned UserId datastore list is hard for u, then you should consider doing isbanned datastore instead,that’s what I do.
especially when datastore uses UserId

#9

Dictionaries make this really easy.
Pairing this with a DataStore should also be very easy.

local Ban = {
    -- you can make it just an array to save on space
    new = function(seconds, message)
        return {Time = os.time() + seconds, Text = message}
    end
}

local Bans = {}
Bans[userid] = Ban.new(3600, "noob")

local banDetails = "You have been banned for %s\nReason: %s"
local activeBan = Bans[userid]
if activeBan then
    if activeBan.Time > os.time() then
        player:Kick(banDetails:format(
            timeFormat(activeBan.Time - os.time()),
            activeBan.Text
        ))
    else
        Bans[userid] = nil
    end
end

To keep track of this, just save it to a datastore or some other database while periodically getting new ban information.
You might also want to use UpdateAsync in case two people get banned at the same time. (Unless you use the below!)

You could even store this data on the player themselves so that when you try to load their saved data, you can check active bans right in that same table! This, however, won’t allow you to get a BanList. (But it will also theoretically never run out ban space)