What's the best method of retrieving data, then loading stats/giving tools?

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1

I want to know an efficient way of loading players data, then giving the stats the data the player has. I also want to know an efficient way of giving a player their tools on respawn.

2

So an efficient way of loading player’s data is shown in the part of code below. How I’d give player their data is create a table of players in the server and then another table inside for each player which would contain their data.

function module:load(key)
    local success, data = pcall(dataStore.GetAsync, dataStore, key)
    if (success and data) then
        --give player their data
    elseif (success and not data) then
        --create a new data
    else
        delay(30, function() module:load(key) end) --if no success, function calls itself after 30 seconds
    end
end

In order to give player their tools once they respawn is storing them in StarterGear which is located in the player itself.

3

What about the part where you give the player their stats? Like add the data to values.

4

Also wouldn’t that be laggy if a player leaves the game when there is no success, or data? It would keep repeating itself.

5

Yeah you could give it n amount of available tries. However, this is how I give players their data

function module:load(key)
    local success, data = pcall(dataStore.GetAsync, dataStore, key)
    if (success and data) then
        playersTab[player.UserId] = data
    elseif (success and not data) then
        playersTab[player.UserId] = {
            Points = 0;
        }
    else
        delay(30, function() module:load(key) end) --if no success, function calls itself after 30 seconds
    end
end